OK, OK, OK, OK, OK!!!!!!!!
We all know about Kobe being charged! How many damn threads do we need to have to discuss this? I say only ONE!
I come on here to find out new and interesting news on the Spurs and their offseason. NOT about all the stuff I can easily see on ESPN.com or on television!
Yes, he's charged, get over it!
Discuss it, that's cool, but for GOD'S SAKE! It's overrun the board here! I mean, I thought we hated the Lakers and here we are entranced with Kobe! Have one topic thread on the subject and let's get back to talking about the Spurs!
PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hah! Like that is really going to happen. I mean I sympathize with you and all. Maybe Kori and LJ should make a Bryant on trial forum (hint hint) but this is big news, having to do with our most hated rival. Any new developments/ debates are likely to get posted. And this will probably also be the first of many complaints posted against that. Regardless hopefully people will be considerate enough to keep the Bryant posts within as few topics as possible.
Not tomention its the middle of july, not much going on besides this, certainly nothing to trump it.
I agree.
Move this crap to the basketball general forum.
Cassius Clay must've been out of his gourd during the OJ trial for krissakes.
There's a thread dedicated to each and every soundbite from last night in herrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre.
Coming from the King of Repe ive Posts that's rather rich.
Damn, you guys took my idea.
Last night (4am) before I went to sleep, I said that I wanted to move all the Kobe topics to the NBA forum.
I'll do it now.
This will be the only one in this forum -- and I'll lock this one to the top.
You can post any articles, thoughts, etc. on Kobe in this thread now.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
I know this is big news, AND that it trumps everything going on right now, but there's just nothing new to hear or say about this thing that can't be covered in one topic.
Honestly, it's not like we're going to get BREAKING informaton through this forum on this Kobe thing. It's EVERYWHERE!
There should be a place where you can escape the pandamonium (sp?).
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MOVING THE THREADS!:wacko
Good Idea.
I hadn't visited the forum for a couple of days, and I come back and the whole of Page 1 is littered with about Kobe.
Looks much better now.
**** yeah I'd rather read about Aussie TV. Go suck a lemon, 'mate.
3 seperate posts in a thread, compared to 10 whole threads on the same subject.
Good comparison, cobber.
Doesn't ing matter. Don't tell me what to do you little piece of .
If 6'4 is little then so be it.
I would argue with you, but I dont have the stamina to play Rope-a-Dope with you, and I am not a Dope.
Good day.
**** KOBE!
6'4"?
Ize di'int knowz dat deyz stack dat high.
(more...registration required)By HEATHER LOURIE and MARCIA C. SMITH
The Orange County Register
EAGLE, COLO – Everyone here knew her as the popular Eagle Valley Senior High School cheerleader springing with vibrant spirit and sweet smiles, as the beautiful singer always ready to perform in school musicals with the clearest voice and the strongest heart.
But her close friends have been doggedly protecting a secret in the unnerving days since the 19-year-old woman accused Los Angeles Lakers All-Star Kobe Bryant of forcing her to have sex with him - a secret that Bryant's attorneys could use to undermine her credibility, legal experts say.
Two months before the woman went to the Eagle County Sheriff's Department on July 1 alleging that Bryant had sexually assaulted her, the woman suffered under such mental anguish that she overdosed on pills and was rushed to a hospital, her friends told The Orange County Register.
"I think it was just a cry for help," said Lindsey McKinney, 18, who lived at the woman's house in May, when the woman took the pills.
www2.ocregister.com/ocrwe...h=7&day=20
Most of you all might see this as an attack on the girls character. She was depressed, attempted suicide and, thus sought out Kobe to get something from him. I on the other hand don't see that. Having studied psychology extensively, I would like to report that this brings into line the whole story for me. Rapist generally choose their victims based on criterias of perceived weakness, submissiveness, and low self esteem. For me this bout with depression further backs up the claim of rape. She was supposed to be the perfect victim, a small town cheerleader with a history of depression. My only hope is that she proves to the world to be much stronger than Kobe alllegedly percieved her to be. You might ask yourself Why I am so quick to believe these allegations? I'll tell you in my next post.
Exactly what I was thinking Despurado. This story could backfire and make people even more sympathetic to the victim.
I posted a huge explanation about my thoughts on the Kobe Bryant case in this thread. Please read, comment, or ignore as you see fit.
There is NO WAY that Kobe will get convicted in this case. It is clear that this chick has got serious emotional problems. Obviously the chick gave it up for Kobe and then freaked.
Lets wait and see the evidence before we pass judgement on either party. Seems, rational to do that, yes?
Who deleted my thread with Kobe's accuser's pic??? Just because there was another thread that I was not aware of, is no reason to delete the one I went through the trouble of posting.
Its in the NBA forum, Jim
Thanx Scott. I do think all Kobe threads should be in here though. I think Kobe being on Lakers or not being on Lakers indirectly affects SA's chances of repeating, so Kobe news is appropos, IMO.
www.denverpost.com/Storie...89,00.html
Article Published: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 - 12:00:00 AM MST
Bryant accuser's injuries 'obvious'
Friend says she was hurt, 'no question'
By Chris Frates and George Merritt, Denver Post Staff Writers
EAGLE - The alleged victim in the Kobe Bryant sexual-assault case suffered obvious physical injuries that are still apparent three weeks after the incident, a friend told The Denver Post on Monday.
"She had been hurt, there's no question about it," said Luke Bray, a high school friend who said he has helped take care of the woman since the June 30 incident.
Bray's remarks are the first confirmation of the physical evidence that Eagle County District Attorney Mark Hurlbert alluded to when he charged Bryant with one count of felony sexual assault Friday.
Bray would not discuss the specific injuries because he said the woman's attorney, Rob Wheeler, advised him not to.
Attorneys representing Bryant - Hal Haddon and Pamela Mackey - could not be reached late Monday.
The mother of the alleged victim has asked her daughter's friends to stop talking with reporters, but not before the woman's purported picture, address, phone number and e-mail address began circulating on the Internet. The photo being circulated, however, is actually of someone else, a former classmate said Monday.
"Her parents are afraid for her because she's received threats," said one family friend who asked not to be identified. "They've kind of asked everyone to step back a little bit and let things cool off."
Outraged basketball fans have e-mailed death threats to the woman, Bray said.
The 19-year-old woman has been the subject of intense media attention since July 6, when the Eagle County Sheriff's Office announced it had arrested Bryant two days earlier. The arrest stemmed from an alleged sexual assault at the Lodge & Spa at Cordillera in Edwards, where Bryant was a guest and the woman worked.
Bryant said Friday that he had consensual sex with the woman.
The charge against the Los Angeles Lakers star carries a prison term of four years to life.
Family friends said the woman's mother called them Sunday to ask that they lower their profile. Some of the woman's friends began speaking out in her defense because they thought her side had not been fairly represented.
Mainly, her parents were concerned that a picture of the girl would eventually find its way into the public spotlight, the family friend said. After the request, the friend canceled three nationwide TV interviews and stopped speaking to print reporters.
Nearly a dozen of the woman's friends and former classmates have appeared on national TV news shows such as "Primetime," "Good Morning America," "Today," "American Morning" and "Fox News: Big Story Weekend with Rita Cosby."
Some of the friends have supported the woman, saying they believed her allegation. Others said they didn't think she was telling the truth and was just trying to grab her 15 minutes of fame.
Despite the mother's concerns, a picture that was purported to be of the woman began circulating as early as Friday on at least three websites.
But Janelle Medina, 19, who attended Eagle Valley High School and was in the choir with the alleged victim, said the photo is of another girl with the same first name.
Internet user "Dudemac" posted what he claimed are three pictures of Bryant's accuser on two websites. The pictures included two from prom night at Eagle Valley High School and one of the cheerleading and dance team of which the woman was a member.
In a chat room on the site, "Dudemac" refused to provide his name or a phone number.
"She is 19, and I really do not think it's cool for her to accuse him and not be in the news herself," Dudemac wrote.
While mainstream media outlets do not generally name victims of sex crimes, posting the woman's name or picture on the Internet does not violate the law, said Chris Beall, a Denver lawyer specializing in media law.
David Feingold, creator of the Boston-based website Freekobe.com, said he knows the woman's name and has seen pictures of her but chose not to publish them. Since Friday, he also has tried to immediately take down messages from bulletin boards if they include any reference to her name, her address or her picture. But the volume is so heavy, he hasn't been able to keep up, he said.
"I do believe that it's in wide circulation, but we try to take it down," Feingold said. "I don't want to have any part of that."
Even as her name spreads across the Internet, almost everyone in Eagle, a small town of 3,700 people, knows who she is.
Meanwhile, the Eagle County District Attorney's Office declined to comment Monday about revelations that the woman suffered a drug overdose in the months before the incident.
Bryant is due back in Colorado for an advisement hearing Aug. 6.
Denver Post staff writers Joey Bunch and Gwen Florio contributed to this report.
Umm.. that's what THIS thread is for -- Kobe News. Anyone can post Kobe news in THIS thread OR in the NBA forum. But I'm not going to have 100's of Kobe threads in this forum to the point where that you can't find any Spurs topics unless you go to page three.I do think all Kobe threads should be in here though. I think Kobe being on Lakers or not being on Lakers indirectly affects SA's chances of repeating, so Kobe news is appropos, IMO.
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