Nov 29 (Reuters) - Five-times National Basketball Association champion Kobe Bryant announced on Sunday that he will retire at the end of the 2015-16 season.
Bryant, who is currently struggling through the worst season of his illustrious 20-year NBA career, said in a poem posted on the Players' Tribune website that "I'm ready to let go." (Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto; Editing by Andrew Both)