Turns out Kobe Bryant is coming to China after all. The retired NBA player will land in China later this month to appear in a new reality show called The Players, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The show, produced by Dragon TV in Shanghai, will feature Chinese celebs performing basketball challenges against "strange" or "unusual" rival teams. Reports THR:
Among the example... teams listed in the show's decidedly non-PC promotional materials are a wheelchair basketball team, a street fighter team, an "American little giant team" (the popular New York-based dwarf basketball team Court Kingz), Mongolian strongmen, Thai warriors and a South Korean running team. If the celebs lose three games, they are eliminated and forced to engage in an intense training regimen of some kind.
Bryant is set to shoot the first episode in China later this month and the show will debut in July. THR says it's "unclear" if Bryant will film additional episodes.
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