Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant for the first time on Saturday revealed which teams he would approve a trade to — the Knicks, Bulls, Mavericks, and Suns — according to reports in Newsday and the New York Post.

Bryant was in New York on Saturday to prepare for Sunday's game against the Knicks, the first time in two years that the controversial star has been in the Big Apple. He needs 20 points to become the youngest player in NBA history to score 20,000.

At a health club in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Bryant told a group of reporters that the four teams on his trade-approval list are still intact.

I just kind of pushed everything to the back burner and stopped thinking about trades," Bryant said about his feelings about a possible trade to the Knicks in October, during the turmoil surrounding president and coach Isiah Thomas and his sexual harassment lawsuit. "It wasn't something where I was scratching teams off or anything like that. I just stopped thinking about it because once the season got under way, my focus had to be here. It couldn't be split, because I'd be doing a disservice to my teammates."

But Bryant told reporters that he would not use his trade-veto clause on a possible Lakers- Knicks deal, Newsday said.

"I would look at it as just another challenge to prove that you can win," Bryant said. "That's how I would approach it. I wouldn't be down about it. I'd just work that much harder to try to prove that if we do work hard, we can win ballgames.

"Every storm passes," Bryant regarding the Thomas situation. "I don't scare too easily."

Bryant said whatever happens is ultimately up to Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak and owner Jerry Buss.

"It's all what Mitch wants to do, really," Bryant told the Orange County Register. "Mitch and Dr. Buss. It's all on them. They can either trade me or not trade me. It's completely their decision. Since the season started, I don't get into it, I don't talk about it, I don't discuss it, I don't think about it."