But could he get a ring on Saturn?

644:According to Sports Business Daily, that would be the vertical leap, in inches, of Kobe Bryant if he played basketball on Pluto, which he suggested in a radio interview Wednesday would be better than playing another season for the Lakers. The calculation is based on a 38-inch vertical leap and .059 ratio of Pluto’s gravity to Earth’s.

Of course, getting to Pluto could prove challenging. Only one spaceship, named New Horizons, has been sent there, and it lifted off in January 2006. Even if Bryant had been ready to go then, that spaceship was too small to carry a human passenger.

New Horizons is scheduled to arrive in July 2015. A spaceship with a cabin large enough for Bryant would take much more time. Flying at the orbiting speed of the space shuttle, if he left today, he would be about 43 years old by the time he landed.

By the way, Kobe, take a heavy coat. Pluto’s surface temperature is between minus 210 and minus 235.

INSIDE: A BRYANT-BUSS DIALOGUE

* With Mitch Kupchak’s cellphone ringing constantly, everyone asking if Kobe Bryant is really going to be traded, the Lakers star talks to the owner over the phone, and Buss says in a statement he shares Bryant’s frustration. D6