Someone must really, really, really love Kobe if he or she wants to buy this. Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports

Snoop Dogg presented Kobe Bryant perhaps the best retirement gift ever courtesy of a customized, Los-Angeles Lakers-themed convertible. But the notion that he actually partook in some pot with the weed-loving rapper are completely bogus, so says one of Kobe’s representatives.

A photograph posted to Twitter by Snoop on Wednesday of he and Bryant hanging out, with the two amusingly rocking “Villain” and “Hero” hats, respectively.

Legend. #Repost @kobebryant
・・・
HeroVillain @snoopdogg #KB20 https://t.co/XUTtAZVbIf pic.twitter.com/w20aBayGgV

— Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) July 7, 2016


And while Bryant’s eyes don’t seem compromised by any possible toking at all in the original photo, subsequent pics made it appear that the retired superstar isn’t too worried any longer about failing any NBA-mandated drug tests, as his eyes were noticeably red, as first reported by TMZ.

Kobe Bryant — I Didn't Get High With Snoop … I Got Photoshopped!! https://t.co/pfx0cQ9cJI

— TMZ (@TMZ) July 7, 2016

 

The enhanced photo in question has now been debunked as being Photoshopped.

“The picture is not real,” a Bryant rep told TMZ. “He wasn’t smoking!”

Well that about wraps it all up concerning the belief that Kobe and Snoop twisted one up, as it were.

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