According to an NBA.com report, a source involved in the negotiations between Kobe Bryant and Besiktas placed the chance of Bryant playing there as of Sunday at "zero percent."
That would contradict a statement made earlier in the week by Seref Yalcin, the head of basketball operations for Besiktas, who said there was a "50 percent" chance that Bryant would come to Turkey, according to a Reuters report.
"I haven't spoken to Besiktas in weeks," Bryant said at a news conference Sunday.
Bryant remains interested in playing overseas.
"I'm just waiting for my phone to ring. Here it is," said Bryant, who set his phone on the table at his press conference in Washington D.C., on Sunday. "I will play anywhere."
"You probably know more about that than I do," Bryant said. "... I've been touring. I get the Internet. I'm computer literate, so I can read on the Internet, and I read a lot of things and hear a lot of things. To be honest with you, that's the first time I hear those things. So, I'll let you decipher what that means, but a lot of that stuff is news to me."