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Matt Barnes rejected LeBron James and Dwyane Wade to play with Kobe Bryant

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While appearing on the CLUB SHAY SHAY podcast, former NBA forward Matt Barnes shares a story of him rejecting LeBron James and Dwyane Wade to play with Kobe Bryant on the Los Angeles Lakers:

“I got a call from a number I didn’t know and it was him. He’s like, ‘It’s Kobe … You want to be a Laker?’ And I’m like, ‘Hell yeah!’”


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