Basketball superstar Kobe Bryant quit the NBA at a hastily assembled Los Angeles news conference today, announcing that he was forming his own league.
“The NBA isn’t what it used to be,” Bryant said, during a break from training with the U.S. Olympic Basketball team. “It isn’t any fun anymore. I just want to do my own thing now.”
Bryant said his new league, the KBA or Kobe Basketball Association, will feature “more superstars, better refereeing, hotter cheerleaders, and more championships won by the team I’ll play for, the Los Angeles Kobes.”
Bryant denied that his decision had anything to do with the Lakers’ recent thrashing by the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals.
“I respect the Celtics,” Bryant said. “They assembled a team of true superstars, by tanking games year after year so they could get high draft picks, which they could trade for mercenary players who had no real feel for Boston’s winning tradition. My hat is off to the entire Celtics organization for the underhanded way in which they orchestrated a championship team that the entire New England region has yet to rally behind in a meaningful, heartfelt way.”
Bryant said that the KBA will be different, as the Los Angeles Kobes play other teams’ superstars one-on-one for the right to participate in the KBA Finals, to be known as the Kobe Classic. The winner will receive the Bryant Trophy, named for KBA superstar Kobe Bryant.
“I think the people have spoken,” Kobe said. “NBA ratings have been sliding for years. People want more of me and less of everyone else. And I can’t blame them.”
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