BREAKING NEWS – Los Angeles, California – Now-retired NBA legend Kobe Bryant said that if he was still playing basketball he would take a knee during the national anthem. “Yeah, I would have participated in it, for sure,” Bryant said. “I’m sure I would have gotten some flak for it. But what has the NBA done for black players? They sign us, pay us tens of millions of dollars, and after our careers are over, they do nothing for us. How racist is that? They use us until our skill level diminishes, and then they treat us like an abandoned child. I did a lot for the NBA, and I feel I should be getting paid by the Lakers indefinitely. But on this issue, the greedy white people that own the team wouldn’t even return my calls. Even that fathead Magic Johnson laughed in my face.”