Kobe Bryant's Muse

I find him hard not to like now. Can't wait to watch.

Purely a $$$$ move. Career is done. Great player. How anyone can excuse the way he ratted out other players infedility is beyond me. The most disliked superstar ever.

are you talking about kobe being mad at karl Malone for him thinking karl made a pass at vanessa?

I honestly forgot that even happened

Damn. He must have covered that up well because you are right. I would be the one to know that.

I had to do some digging but I found it.

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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.

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"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."

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Shaq said the above in reference to the five million dollar rock Kobe bought his wife shortly after he was charged.

Ah, the Shaq/Kobe feud was something to behold

Coming through with the research.

I find Kobe interesting and he's always been a great interview but I just have no interest in seeing this doc. Kobe has final say on it. It reeks of self-promotion. How can someone as notoriously self-absorbed as Kobe produce anything even approaching introspection of any value to anyone who isn't an adoring fan that just wants to lap up what he's selling?

I just don't see what this doc has to offer unless we're just that fascinated with what Kobe wants us to think of him.

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So this is an attempt to spin him as likable for his post bball career in whatever?

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Despite what your average message board poster might think of Kobe, he doesn't need spinning. He will get a chance to do whatever he sees fit at the next level. I really hope he coaches personally. The potential storylines....

Also, Kobe is about the least fake player in the NBA right now. I'm not sure why people hate him so much. What you see is what you get cause he frankly doesn't care about anything but "Kobe competing". It's respectable at least.

I also find it interesting that people are calling out the documentary on the idea that he has final say and no sports documentary ever has input from the athlete. The love/hate for Kobe is truly fascinating.