New York, NY – Although a rep denied Kobe Bryant was on board to play in the BIG3 basketball league earlier this week, Ice Cube isn’t giving up quite yet.
In an interview with ESPN’s Outside The Lines, the West Coast gangsta rap icon joked that he’d take extreme measures to get the NBA legend to join the league.
“To me, he’s the biggest name out there for us to get,” he said. “He’s going to have to get a restraining order on me to leave him alone about this.”
Cube predicts nature will take its course and the BIG3 will reel Kobe in organically.
“I think we just keep doing what we doing putting on great basketball and I think we have a lot retired players looking at our league and they want a piece this,” he added. “And we’ve got a lot players that are at the end their career that are looking at our league.
“If you got the itch, we got the scratch. We just keep putting on a great product and if he wants to play, he’ll come play.”
The rumor started to circulate on Wednesday (August 21) after Basketball Society’s Brandon Robinson said Kobe was ready to join the BIG3. The news reportedly came from league co-founder Jeff Kwatinetz.
By that afternoon, Chief Marketing Officer Kobe Inc. Molly Carter shot that rumor down and confirmed he wouldn’t be playing next year.