Dancing with Dogs: Kobe is nuts!

Kobe is nuts!

I mean seriously, you have all probably heard Kobe hinting all over town that Karl Malone tried to hit on his wife. Quoted below is the entire text of that so-called hitting-on session.

FOXSports.com - NBA - Deion rips Kobe for taking Malone feud public

The recent Malone-Bryant feud boiled over when Vanessa Bryant told her husband on Nov. 23 that Malone had made inappropriate comments to her that night at the game at Staples Center.
The comments in question reportedly happened after Vanessa invited Malone to sit with her in the second half of that game. Malone, decked out in a cowboy hat and boots, went over and gave Vanessa Bryant a hug.

“Who are you hunting?” Vanessa reportedly asked when she saw Malone’s outfit.

“Little Mexican girls,” Malone responded.
And when that comment was relayed to Kobe, he called Malone and reportedly vowed to “(mess) him up” if he ever went near his wife again.

At worst, I think this is harmless flirting - at best, a frigging joke. Kobe must have been out of his mind trying to make a mountain of this molehill. At best, he is trying to make his wife feel desirable again by implying other men are hitting on her - her desirability must have taken quite a hit after revelations of his numerous infidelities, y’know! I think the dud just needs to shut up and grow up. He has made more enemies int he league since his rape allegations than anyone else…that too, people who atleast publicly stood by him and had his back. Not cool in the least.

update: According to another story, there was more to the Karl-Vanessay Bryant thing -

“Karl and his son were at the game sitting in the front row,” Pelinka said. “Vanessa was on the cell phone talking to Karl’s wife, Kay, and Vanessa said that her son looked bored. Kay told her to call Karl to have her son join her in her seats. Kay gave Vanessa Karl’s cell number and she called him. When she called, Karl’s response was, ‘Why don’t you come over here and sit next to me and give me a big hug?’ Vanessa said, ‘Why? For what?’ And Karl replied, ‘If you do that it will be on the cover of every magazine in the country.’
“Vanessa didn’t know what to say because this was the first time she had ever spoken to Malone without Kobe or Kay being around. Karl continued. ‘Do you like me?’ Malone asked her, to which Vanessa said, ‘As my friend, Kay’s husband,’ ” Pelinka said.
“From there Malone asked Vanessa if she could keep a secret, and that he would like to tell her something. At which point Vanessa told him she was a married woman and he was a married man who was old enough to be her father. To which Malone replied, ‘Oh, like your daddy?’ At that point she told me she ended the conversation,” Pelinka said.

If the new version is true, then Karl Malone is a true lech and is a horrible human being to hit on a woman who is already going through a tough time.

Posted by shanti at December 16, 2004 8:44 AM