Free Kobe Bryant!!

[Ted Striker]

You don't think the addition of Gary Payton and Karl Malone makes that big of a difference?

Just adding Payton alone makes them champs.

[monkspider]

Poor Kobe.

[Dis]

bump for Kobe

I don't even like the lakers, but Kobe is cool

[JohnT]

I'm sure that all the posters in here, if they were famous, wealthy, good-looking 22-year old NBA players, who were out on the road constantly with groupies grabbing your ass wherever you went, would totally be able to resist temptation to save it for the little women.

Especially if you go out drinking with the guys... which you will. Especially if you are invited to the best clubs, the hottest spots, of any city that you are in.

Now, talk all you want about the charge - guilty or non-guilty, whatever, but don't tell me that if you were in Kobe's shoes you wouldn't, well, maybe just this once.

[Dis]

I will admit there is the .00009% possibility this ***** is telling the truth, but I doubt that.

I want to see Kobe win the case, then win the subsequent civil lawsuit brought against him by this woman.

And then I want to see Kobe sue this woman for falsely acccusing him. I want him to take everything she has. I want to see her live in the streets and be forced to be a crack whore to survive.

[Ming]

He says... she says... a tough case to prove. We will never know what really happened, but it will be interesting to see how it plays out.

[Dis]

one interesting thing is they did decide to prosecute based on the interviews of health care workers who examined her.

That worries me, maybe there is something there. Maybe she had some marks on her body- though she could have inflicted those marks herself.

[Az]

Originally posted by JohnT
I'm sure that all the posters in here, if they were famous, wealthy, good-looking 22-year old NBA players, who were out on the road constantly with groupies grabbing your ass wherever you went, would totally be able to resist temptation to save it for the little women.

Especially if you go out drinking with the guys... which you will. Especially if you are invited to the best clubs, the hottest spots, of any city that you are in.

Now, talk all you want about the charge - guilty or non-guilty, whatever, but don't tell me that if you were in Kobe's shoes you wouldn't, well, maybe just this once.

I can see where you're coming from. It doesn't make it right to cheat on his wife, but you've got a point.

I just can hardly understand the motive. It seems to be a one-night stand, so hardly any emotions can be involved, now why would he force sex on her? I am sure he's got girls all over him anyway.

[Dis]

there is no reason to force sex. he can get almost any chick in the world.

The only reason is if he has some hidden hatred of women or some violent streak we don't know about.

[Ming]

These are the toughest cases to prove... I'm sure we will hear that she is a slut... that she loved hard sex... blah blah blah... a very tough case to prove... the civil suit stands a better chance.

[Az]

just like with OJ.

[JohnT]

Azazel, there are just some mean people out there who wouldn't mind taking Kobe down a few notches for $500,000. This woman might be one of them.

OTOH, perhaps Kobe is the wronging party. We will see.

[Ming]

looks like the Mike Tyson case all over again... but something tells me the Kobe will come across better that Mikey, and save the day. This looks like a set up for a civil suit, because the criminal case will probably go nowhere.

[Dis]

Bigfoot comes accross better than Mike Tyson

One is a clean cut basketball player who doesn't have a violent reputation.

The other is a dirty boxer with one helluva violent reputation- and he grew up in the mean streets of philadelphia (I think it was philly)

[Az]

Originally posted by Dissident
Bigfoot comes accross better than Mike Tyson

Bigfoot is just a misunderstood gentle giant, after all.

One is a clean cut basketball player who doesn't have a violent reputation.

The other is a dirty boxer with one helluva violent reputation- and he grew up in the mean streets of philadelphia (I think it was philly)

Precisely.

JohnT: this indeed seems to be the case.