Kobe Pummels Vanessa as Post-Game Encounter Goes Off Script
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Whether the Lakers can squeak out of Round Three or not, Kobe faces an uphill battle in Round Two with wife Vanessa.
LOS ANGELES, CA (Sportsman’s Daily Wire Service) — After Game 1 at the Staples Center, a triumphant Kobe Bryant left the floor and headed under the stands to the locker room where Vanessa Bryant and the couple’s two children waited, providing viewers at home with a warm Hallmark moment. It was a scene the Bryants have enacted a number of times before, and while scripted down to Vanessa’s bionic smile, it’s been a demonstrable pr asset, seeming to humanize the aloof, self-absorbed, hard-to-like superstar.
But things took a horrible turn when a fuming Kobe stormed off the court after a gut-wrenching 106-103 loss to the Cavaliers. (more…)
