They were bad to show Jason Kidd's wife and kid at every oppurtune time during the Nets 2002 and 2003 runs.
Probably for the exact same reason.
If you mistreat women like these two have done, Kidd and Bryant, you don't deserve to have your reprutation healed unless you can truly prove you're remorsed over it. Those two haven't as of yet.
I don't know how much more Bryant can do. He seemed genuinely remorseful to me in his press conference. Unless he's done a great job of hiding it, he hasn't repeated anything. I have no problem with his showing affection to those adorable kids. Scripted or not. When my daughter was that age and every bit as adorable, she got kisses from daddy no matter where she was or who was watching.
This is really nitpicky. He denies the rape. I didn't believe him until the "victim" started the money grab. He doesn't compare to Kidd...who is just a jerk. From all accounts, Kobe made one big mistake. He appears to far from an absentee father. (You can't script his children's reaction when they saw him even if you think the scene was.) He's there ad nauseum for the press. He's very active in the LA community. With the exception of the one mistake, he's the antithesis of the NBA player stereotype.
How many players on just our team do we immortalize who have children out of wedlock? How many in the NBA have multiple children out of wedlock?
Get off the guy's back.