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No R.I.P. posts anymore?

O2bnVegas
O2bnVegas
Jan 28, 2020
1:08pm
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So much over-thinking about my initial post.  And please, I am not responsible for the degree and content of TV coverage that ensued.  

 

Note the title I chose for this thread:  "No R.I.P. posts anymore?"  That was actually my first reaction to the news.  I saw it on news feed on my computer screen.  I checked the LVA site, all the forums, curious what others would be saying, but nada!  Nothing under Vegas Daily News, and still to this day no mention.  Perhaps they have the same disregard for Kobe as Kevin and Jeff do.  That's fine, each to his own.   Just that I was surprised about that.  Probably lots of bets were won and lost on the Lakers through the years.  To me that would be the LVA connection, his career with the Lakers, sports betting.

 

Jeff, it is an overstatement to suggest that I "admired" Kobe.  Read my post again.  I appreciate athletic talent.  Kobe made the TV news (daily) at time of the scandal, impossible not to know about him.  I don't think anyone is disputing that he had talent.  Whether he was a "team player" or not I have no idea, but apparently his talent was a factor in the Lakers' success some years.

 

 

 

 

 

Jeff
Jeff
Jan 29, 2020
11:17am
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Originally posted by: Kevin Lewis

I was criticized for opining that the attention given to Bryant's death has been a wee bit excessive, and that ordinary person deaths are just as tragic as celebrity deaths. That, apparently, was blasphemy.

 

I would probably also be excoriated for saying that Bryant and those with him would probably still be alive if they had chosen some more proletarian way to get where they were going, like a limo. But I'm not going to say it.

 

And yeah, Bryant falls under the category of "rapist with money." He paid the woman who accused him a million bucks, and far be it from me to suggest that there might be quite a few women out there who would be willing to be raped by a celebrity for a cool million. It's just another illustration of the motto of the Grand Old U S of A: "Money talks."

 

I watched Bryant play many times. Talented? Obviously. A team player? Not really.

 

I am going to blaspheme one more time and say that the death of a world-famous, extremely rich 41-year-old celebrity who performed on the world stage and was adored by millions of fans for decades might not be as tragic as that of the schoolteacher who died in a car crash that same day. But lordy lordy lordy, Bryant's death is being treated by the media as if he was the Pope.

Whether or not they get prosecuted, sports superstars who commit sex crimes like Kobe Bryant get a free pass from their fans. Many sports superstars have rap sheets of violent felonies yet their violent behavior only seems to increase their popularity with fans who find a bad boy image and an aura of danger thrilling.

Since Harvey Weinstein's public image could use a little polishing these days, maybe he should get into a brawl in one of those Strip nightclubs and shoot someone. Either that or take up basketball.

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