Kobe's Fluff Piece at Halftime

[newdusk]

Did anyone bother watching this? It had a real creepy vibe to it. Everything seemed so scripted it was as if Kobe had to do things in multiple takes and yell "cut" if he didn't like where things were going. He had his family all dressed up with his daughters in their Sunday dresses and his wife looking like Morticia Adams. The saddest part was Kobe's wife. You cannot help but feel bad for her. She stuck by him for better or for worse but when I saw her face last night she just looked miserable. She was trying so hard to keep a smile intact and at one point you see her walking out of the room. I remember when I first saw Kobe's wife and she was beautiful. You wondered how anybody could cheat on that. Seeing her now she just looks warn out and she is supposed to be younger than me. That halftime special just gave me a really bad vibe.

[CDawg834]

I love when sport networks do these "puff pieces" and try to convince everyone that the subject of the story isn't really a huge jerk.

[Andy Jick]

i agree...TP for you.

she looked like she had to play the part.  i don't like watching a man feel the need to hold his child while simultaneously walking on a treadmill to prove how hard of a worker he is.

he is a known adulterer - i think ABC would have been wise to just let that dog lay.  i'm all for second chances, but i'm not for media sensationalizing a false perception.

[reggie35]

My favorite part was Kobe saying... "at home, I'm totally different... laid back... goof ball" they then proceed to show his family "hanging out" in his living room gym that was better than most gyms I've been in.

Kobe is ... a feminine hygiene product. If he was all about winning, the Lakers would've probably garnered three more titles. Luckily for us, he's all about himself.

I've loathed many NBA players, but him I hate the most. So much talent, so little substance.

[Bankshot]

I couldn't watch it, I had to turn the tv.  I'm so sick of the Kobe lovefest!   It boggles the mind that this is the guy the league wants to be the face of the NBA.  I know he's a great player, but he's the biggest phony there is!  All season long they tried to repair his image and they are still jamming Kobe down out throats!

[Frontierboy]

A couple of problems with that piece:  Kobe's wife caked on the makeup and got all dressed up to sit and watch Kobe workout....... His kids were forced to kiss him when Vanessa said "give daddy and kiss".......the setting didn't seem natural if he was trying to convey that he's relaxed at home ( in the home gym)....

There was a piece about Lebron done a few weeks back and he looked down to earth.... his wife wasn't all dressed up, she was wearing average clothes..... they had the family eating dinner.... and playing with the kid's toys....... Lebron's video made me like Lebron a bit in that fact that he's a family man.  Also that his wife was just an average woman......

[Andy Jick]

my wife runs around in a long t-shirt...i'm occasionally having to tell her to put some shorts on.    (and yes, she's pretty good looking - nice florida tan and jogs 8 miles a day).

[wdleehi]

I was looking for the wife's 'expensive jewelry' 


Such a family man. 

[Donoghus]

I changed the channel at halftime.  Couldn't deal with that.

Found an old Van Damme movie to pass the time until the start of the 3rd.

[newdusk]

A couple of problems with that piece:  Kobe's wife caked on the makeup and got all dressed up to sit and watch Kobe workout....... His kids were forced to kiss him when Vanessa said "give daddy and kiss".......the setting didn't seem natural if he was trying to convey that he's relaxed at home ( in the home gym)....

There was a piece about Lebron done a few weeks back and he looked down to earth.... his wife wasn't all dressed up, she was wearing average clothes..... they had the family eating dinner.... and playing with the kid's toys....... Lebron's video made me like Lebron a bit in that fact that he's a family man.  Also that his wife was just an average woman......

Yeah I kind of agree with that LeBron seems like an alright person. I don't get how the Globe does a piece about Ray Allen having OCD and being kind of crazy but the national media is trying so hard to make Kobe seem normal. I would rather hear about Kobe quarks I want to see a human side to a player. He made some comment about radio braodcasters and it was genuinly funny.

[ma11l]

I felt like the piece was insulting the intelligence of all the fans.  Unless you're under the age of 5 or have lived under a rock you know this guy is a jerk.  Not even just NBA fans or sports fans, his masquerade in Colorado was all over every news outlet in the world.  Don't try to tell us that he is now a great family man, that was a joke.  The guy is a great player but a terrible piece of trash human being. 

[Yakmanev]

I'd like to buy Kobe for what he's worth and sell him for what he thinks he's worth.

[jay_jay54]

Did anyone bother watching this? It had a real creepy vibe to it. Everything seemed so scripted it was as if Kobe had to do things in multiple takes and yell "cut" if he didn't like where things were going. He had his family all dressed up with his daughters in their Sunday dresses and his wife looking like Morticia Adams. The saddest part was Kobe's wife. You cannot help but feel bad for her. She stuck by him for better or for worse but when I saw her face last night she just looked miserable. She was trying so hard to keep a smile intact and at one point you see her walking out of the room. I remember when I first saw Kobe's wife and she was beautiful. You wondered how anybody could cheat on that. Seeing her now she just looks warn out and she is supposed to be younger than me. That halftime special just gave me a really bad vibe.

****,you would look worn out to,if you were wondering/worrying when he is going to throw you "under the bus"...sure he wanted a boy,especially the second one.She probably wondering when he will jump ship,and trade her in for someone who might give him a Kobe junior,his heir to the NBA,not Kobeleen the next WNBA star. ..joking around here.

[No Look Shot]

I couldn't turn away from watching it; it was just so creepy and bizarre, never mind the fact that it wasn't really about anything in particular.

To go from telling Powe's story the other night, which is truly amazing, to this weird, political-campaign style thing ("Hi, I'm Kobe Bryant, I'm a professional athlete and I have a family, and I love them, and they are important to me, and look, I'm on a treadmill, and I am totally fun and relaxed and just like you, and I am not at all a total psycho obsessed with my place in history") is one of the weirder things I've seen from ABC/ESPN as of late. If you're catering to a casual audience who may not know a lot about him, why not just do the standard "this is Kobe Bryant, his dad played overseas, he speaks italian, he's really good, he used to play with Shaq" throwaway biography?

Honestly, this kind of desperate plea for mass acceptance just reminds you that Bryant and Phil Jackson are two self-absorbed weirdos who truly deserve each other.

[Yakmanev]

I couldn't turn away from watching it; it was just so creepy and bizarre, never mind the fact that it wasn't really about anything in particular.

To go from telling Powe's story the other night, which is truly amazing, to this weird, political-campaign style thing ("Hi, I'm Kobe Bryant, I'm a professional athlete and I have a family, and I love them, and they are important to me, and look, I'm on a treadmill, and I am totally fun and relaxed and just like you, and I am not at all a total psycho obsessed with my place in history") is one of the weirder things I've seen from ABC/ESPN as of late. If you're catering to a casual audience who may not know a lot about him, why not just do the standard "this is Kobe Bryant, his dad played overseas, he speaks italian, he's really good, he used to play with Shaq" throwaway biography?

Honestly, this kind of desperate plea for mass acceptance just reminds you that Bryant and Phil Jackson are two self-absorbed weirdos who truly deserve each other.

That's the gap between our legacy and theirs.
We have players working hard through homelessness to keep there family together and they have rapist.

Look at our lineage of great players and there behavior and then look at the Lakers lineage and their behavior. Nothing more need be said.

The Lakers are getting babied on and off the court.

1)The Lakers can't really compete with us so Game 3 is awarded to them however they were barely good enough to hold on to it. The awarding is evident in the fact everyone who follows basketball knew what referee would give Stern the result he wanted and were able to predict that he would be officiating in it several hours before it was announced.

2)The Lakers off the court are foul and putrid and need scripts and directors to make them look remotely human.

The gap in these two franchises top to bottom is astonishing.

Think about it we almost won a gift game to the Lakers with most of the team deciding not to bring their game. Dream officiating for them. Injury to us and everything else.

They are a laughing stock on NBA Welfare and it is hilarious. Keep sinking!