Loving the Blazers and... Kobe?!

[<-=*PdX*=->]

WhaT do you guys think? I have a friend that swears he is a die hard blazers fan but loves Kobe .... I told him that is not possible and not cool.... What do you all think? Should I Push him in front of a bus?

 

[Ed O]

Kobe is one of the five or so best players in the last 20 years, in my opinion. He is a truly great player.

I can see how someone can appreciate greatness even if it's Laker greatness.

Ed O.

 

[Da_O]

Who doesn't hate Kobe? I'll let Daniel Tosh take over.

[video=youtube;IRPwuFzwEAw]

It's like when Michael Jordan was the best, you hated him but you respected his game.

 

[<-=*PdX*=->]

Kobe is one of the five or so best players in the last 20 years, in my opinion. He is a truly great player.

I can see how someone can appreciate greatness even if it's Laker greatness.

Ed O.

what?!?!? I might need to plan a road trip with my friend to Seattle! I have two hands and could possibly push you both infront of a bus!

 

[tlongII]

Pushing him in front of a bus would be a little extreme. Just hit him in the leg with a crowbar.

 

[huevonkiller]

Who doesn't hate Kobe? I'll let Daniel Tosh take over.



It's like when Michael Jordan was the best, you hated him but you respected his game.

[video=youtube;tmPGsUpzJG4]

I thought this was a cool standup (a bit old), most of it is off topic though sorry about that. Basketball starts around the five minute mark.

 

[Minstrel]

Kobe has been one of my five favourite non-Blazers players for most of his career. I don't like/dislike athletes for who they are as people, I like them based on whether I enjoy watching them play ball (just like my favourite actors or bands are based on how much I enjoy their performances).

Kobe is brilliant to watch play.

 

[LOTBfan]

Fuck the rapist, and fuck your rapist loving friend.

It's cool man.

 

[bbwtrench]

Acquitted yet people persist. He admitted adultery... Its human nature... let it go.... haha

 

[Mediocre Man]

Acquitted yet people persist. He admitted adultery... Its human nature... let it go.... haha

Kobe wasn't acquitted either. The case was dropped when he paid her off.



I know I've never had to pay a woman off that accused me of rape. He settled with the woman who still claims to have had her ass bleed.

[video=youtube;BQbB2VTLshY]

 

[tlongII]

That's not her.

 

[Mediocre Man]

That's not her.

I think it is her.

She starts crying during it.

It doesn't sound like she is making light of it. It sounds like she's lashing out at somoene who raped her. That being said, you would think that would be against the rulings of the court in a settlement dispute.

 

[hasoos]

Oh we know how this would turn out. Everybody here hated Pippen until he was playing here. Then he was loved. They are always the enemy until they are on the Blazer!

 

[Mediocre Man]

Oh we know how this would turn out. Everybody here hated Pippen until he was playing here. Then he was loved. They are always the enemy until they are on the Blazer!

I am man enough to admit that if K*be somehow ends up here I will defend him like the idiot L*ker fans do.

 

[Wheels]

I think Minstrel said it best. I never thought of it that way, about the actors thing.

 

[LameR]

Kobe has been one of my five favourite non-Blazers players for most of his career. I don't like/dislike athletes for who they are as people, I like them based on whether I enjoy watching them play ball (just like my favourite actors or bands are based on how much I enjoy their performances).

Kobe is brilliant to watch play.

What he said.

 

[crandc]

I never hated Pippen. I just hated the Bulls beating the Blazers.

Please, it seems every 6 weeks or so we get one of these "Kobe [am I on a first name basis with this creep? I don't think so!] to the Blazers" threads. I think people just want to stir the pot.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. If Kobe Bryant becomes a Blazer I will not root for the team. I will go to college and WNBA games but not Blazers games. I'm woman enough to admit that my dislike of Kobe Bryant will not change if he changes uniform.

And the chances of seeing Kobe Bryant in Blazer uniform are about as likely as seeing Rush Limbaugh in an Obama 08 T-shirt.

 

[MAS RipCity]

fuck mj and fuck kobe

 

[huevonkiller]

Kobe wasn't acquitted either. The case was dropped when he paid her off.

She did go to her friend's house, where reportedly she bragged about him repeatedly at a party. Also she had intercourse within 24 hours of the incident. She also admitted to detectives that she made some errors in her statements, and the case was dropped even with the "evidence" they had presumably collected.

I think it is her.

She starts crying during it.

It doesn't sound like she is making light of it. It sounds like she's lashing out at somoene who raped her. That being said, you would think that would be against the rulings of the court in a settlement dispute.

I've heard on other boards that it's clearly a fake. I think TMZ or whatever would be all over it otherwise.

 

[Mediocre Man]

I've heard on other boards that it's clearly a fake. I think TMZ or whatever would be all over it otherwise.

True. You would think it would be all over something because there is no way she would be allowed to say that after he paid her off. It's just weird that she gets pretty emotional during it.

 

[huevonkiller]

True. You would think it would be all over something because there is no way she would be allowed to say that after he paid her off. It's just weird that she gets pretty emotional during it.

Ok lol, do you even know if that is what she looks like?

TMZ would gossip about it regardless, but I don't think it is her.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Ok lol, do you even know if that is what she looks like?

TMZ would gossip about it regardless, but I don't think it is her.

I have seen pictures of her, but she could be my secretary, and I really wouldn't know. Other than the donut she would still have to sit on to work of course.

 

[Cake]

That video is absolutely fake.

http://www.studiofred.com/players/whitneyteubner.html

 

[maxiep]

Acquitted yet people persist. He admitted adultery... Its human nature... let it go.... haha

OJ is innocent!

 

[huevonkiller]

OJ is innocent!

OJ was on suicide watch in his Bronco, he's got nothing to use except racism and planted evidence defense. The girl was at a party and bragged about KB's genitalia.

 

[MARIS61]

Kobe is one of the five or so best anal rapists in the last 20 years, in my opinion. He is a truly great anal rapist.

I can see how someone can appreciate greatness even if it's Laker greatness.

Ed O.

Fixed.

 

[BBert]

Also she had intercourse within 24 hours of the incident.

Are you fucking joking? I don't know you, and I'm not going to pass judgement, but what the fuck does someone's VOLUNTARY sex life have to do with whether or not that person was INVOLUNTARILY RAPED? I am stunned when I see this kind of "logic" or "justification" or whatever it is trotted out in passing judgement on whether or not a woman was assaulted. It leaves me speechless. I hope I misunderstood your post, and if I did, I apologize.

 

[huevonkiller]

Are you fucking joking? I don't know you, and I'm not going to pass judgement, but what the fuck does someone's VOLUNTARY sex life have to do with whether or not that person was INVOLUNTARILY RAPED? I am stunned when I see this kind of "logic" or "justification" or whatever it is trotted out in passing judgement on whether or not a woman was assaulted. It leaves me speechless. I hope I misunderstood your post, and if I did, I apologize.

I do not ever see "justification" in rape, I'm not sure what you meant by that. I am stunned that you think this is offensive? I certainly don't find promiscuous behavior from a single woman to be offensive, but I find it relevant to the case.

I personally don't care if Women want to be players, I don't hold a double-standard or anything but that is another matter.

I have never heard of a victim having intercourse again that soon, whether she really likes to have sex with various men is something I do not care about. Credibility, and probability of something occurring has always been relevant.

 

[crandc]

why?

I personally don't care if Women want to be players, I don't hold a double-standard or anything but that is another matter.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's sure a double standard to me. Do you ask if the man had voluntary sex before allegedly raping?

I have never heard of a victim having intercourse again that soon, whether she really likes to have sex with various men is something I do not care about. Credibility, and probability of something occurring has always been relevant.[/

I have. Frequently. Sometimes a violated woman wants badly to be with someone she likes. Sometimes a violated woman feels she has totally lost the right to say no. I know of one woman who after a rape called 3 different men within 24 hours for sex and later said she'd been made a whore by the rapist and was acting like one.

I dont' think out of your limited male experience you can pronounce on what rape victims "always" or "never" do.

Oh yes, is there maybe just maybe just possibly a credibility problem with the alleged rapist? Is his previous or subequent behavior relevant? Or is it just a woman who must be scrutinized to see if she was pure enough to not be "asking for it"?

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

A guest on the Jim Rome show just said that Kobe's top choices to replace Phil Jackson are Nate McMillan and Jeff VanGundy.