Now That Kobe Has Retired And Opened Up, Can We Agree He's A Weirdo?

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Kobe Bryant on the Trayvon Martin case: “I won’t react to something just because I’m supposed to, because I’m an African-American” - Hot Air


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Reading the article he says he waits for all of the facts to come out before making his own conclusions.

“I won’t react to something just because I’m supposed to, because I’m an African-American,” he said. “That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and a culture, but, say, if something happens to an African-American we immediately come to his defense? Yet you want to talk about how far we’ve progressed as a society? Well, we’ve progressed as a society, then don’t jump to somebody’s defense just because they’re African-American. You sit and you listen to the facts just like you would in any other situation, right? So I won’t assert myself.”
 

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Report: Kobe said Shaq paid women hush money
Sep 30, 2004

NEW YORK -- Separating Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal on
different teams on different coasts has done nothing to lessen the
animosity between the one-time Los Angeles Lakers teammates. If
anything, the feud is escalating.

On Wednesday, O'Neal dismissed as "ridiculous" Bryant's
allegations that O'Neal had paid up to $1 million in hush money to
various women and then took his own shot by saying, "I'm not the
one buying love."

O'Neal made the remark to ESPN's Stephen A. Smith after the Los Angeles Times quoted a police
report as saying Bryant told detectives in Eagle, Colo., "he
should have done what Shaq does ... that Shaq would pay his women
not to say anything" and already had paid up to $1 million "for
situations like this."

The comment was written down by Det. Doug Winters but not recorded on tape.

"He stated he, Bryant, treats a woman with respect, therefore they shouldn't say anything," Winters wrote.

O'Neal's agent, Perry Rogers, told the paper on Tuesday that the allegation, which was fought successfully to have inadmissible at trial, was untrue and "undeserving of a response."

"This whole situation is ridiculous," O'Neal told ESPN. "I
never hang out with Kobe, I never hung around him. In the seven or
eight years we were together, we were never together. So how this
guy can think he knows anything about me or my business is funny.
And one last thing -- I'm not the one buying love. He's the one
buying love."


Bryant's statement came near the end of a lengthy interrogation about a hotel employee's complaint that Bryant had raped her.

The incident report, a portion of which was reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, is part of the sealed file in the criminal case that was brought against Bryant last year and dropped earlier this month. A Colorado judge Wednesday cleared the way for the release of those sealed documents.

The Times said it was unclear precisely what Bryant meant by his
remarks.

Prosecutors dropped the felony sexual assault charge against
Bryant earlier this month at the accuser's request, but the woman
has filed a federal civil suit against him in Denver, seeking
unspecified damages for pain and suffering since the case began.

O'Neal was informed of Bryant's allegation last September, and
the relationship between the two was cool throughout the 2003-04
season. O'Neal was subsequently traded to the Miami Heat.




There have been no published reports of O'Neal ever being
accused of any sex crimes. He was charged with misdemeanor battery
in Orange County, Fla., in 1998 after a 23-year-old Walt Disney
World employee claimed he grabbed her neck, but the case was
dismissed in 2000.

It is unclear precisely what Bryant meant by the remarks attributed to him. There have been no published reports of O'Neal ever being accused of any sex crime.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
 

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I never liked him as a player, but I respect that he's laid low after he retired and that he seems at peace with his decision. A lot of these NBA players don't know to do anything else in life besides putting a ball thru a hoop and when their career is over, they have an identity crisis. Kobe definetly isn't one of them
 
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