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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
What is up with this?
Can we just have Kobe lobotomized? Was Vanessa Bryant born yesterday? Did Malone say something untoward to her that I missed? Does Kobe's decision to share all of this make you want to retch? Does Kobe make you want to retch?
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FWIW, the LA Times has decided that if Kobe insists on dragging us all into his little soap opera, then fine, goddammit -- let's look at it in a little piece that should be called
Vanessa Bryant: Team Wrecker. (Spree: reg requ'd)
- Seldom has someone insisted on privacy more while behaving in ways that guaranteed him less.
There are places we're not supposed to go, but we're continually being dragged into Bryant's personal life, la vida Kobe, and finding out w-a-a-a-y more than we want to know.
This time it's the split between Bryant and erstwhile friend-teammate Karl Malone — and Malone's announcement that he and the Lakers are through — over what Bryant has said were inappropriate comments made by Malone to Bryant's wife, Vanessa.
With Kobe and Vanessa, it always spills over into his career and has for five tumultuous years. The Lakers have not only been sucked into the tumult, they were reconfigured — or put another way, all but destroyed.
Since Kobe met and became engaged to Vanessa Laine in the summer of 2000, he has split from everyone in his original inner circle — parents, sisters, extended family and agent, not to mention Shaquille O'Neal and Phil Jackson.
