why do people keep saying kobe's a rapist?
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people think that micheal jackson is guilty and he's not bla.... never mind. but anyway i always wonder the same thing. I think its just cause thats the only thing they got against kobe
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There's a lot of reasons why people hate Kobe. To start off, he went straight to the NBA straight out of highschool so back in those days before Lebron James, people critisized kids skipping college. Garnett had the same critism also. THe other situation is that Kobe was a ball hog during that early years with the Lakers mainly because he wanted to prove people (who said he cant make it to the NBA cus he's too young) wrong. So he end up having to shoot without passing a lot. Then eventually he end up having to play with Shaq and Shaq and him doesnt see eye to eye at many times. Many of those people during that time are Shaq fans. Then during the championship years in 2000 to 2003, Kobe critisized Shaq for not having the work ethic like Kobe so people look at Kobe as too aragant and bossy. Then ofcourse the big one was the Colorado incident. Nobody likes a guy who cheats on his wife and not only that he was accused of rape. Plus add those bad years for Kobe with Phil Jackson writing a book about him. Saying all those negative things. Plus people put him as the one who get rid of Shaq (i think its Jerry buss). So with all of those things adding up, Kobe became one of the most hated athletes in sports. Personally I like Kobe. I believe he is the best player in basketball today. I also believe he wanted to be a good person because he made a lot of mistakes in his life. But people will always view the past and never forgive him. So far he is doing well in terms of media and saying the right things. Sinceh he just had another kid, he just wanted to be a good father and a good person. Hopefully people will recognized his greatness and forgive him but ofcourse haters will always hate.
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TMAC by far. Kobe only puts up points. Hes a huge ball hog, he doesnt make his team any better. his team plays just as well without him. McGradys rockets have won only 1 game without him and lose like 13 or so. the reason TMac hasnt won a ring is because look who he has played for. Rapters, Magic, please those teams are horible. The reason he hasnt won in Houston is because Yao is nothing special. He is horrible for a big man. You cant even compair him to shaq. Kobe only has rings BECAUSE OF Shaq. Proof is look at him now that Shaq is gone. He only puts up points. TMac is a team player who makes everyone play better, but when the game is on the line he wants the ball and will make the plays. Perfect proof is the 13 points in 30 seconds or so against the Spurs to win the game..Enough Said
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Basketball is a team sport, not a lone ranger sport.  Steve Nash is the leader of his team, and his success is clearly apparent through the improvements his players have experienced this season.  Kobe has to consciously try to be a team player, but he is a "me first" player and always will be.  I have said enough on this subject and will let game 7 speak for itself.  \n\nAll you Kobe lover boys should keep your mouth shut when the Suns hand you the pink slip on Saturday.
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Kobe admitted to having sex with her.  So... Worst case scenario, he raped her and got away with it.  Best case scenario, he cheated on his wife with a hotel maid!\n\nEither way, I don't think too highly of Kobe.  Good to see him get his act together somewhat this season, but he still has a ways to go to repair his reputation.
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Because the emotion of hate overcomes any inkling of a rapist's sense of civility. As previously mentioned, rape has nothing to do with normal sexual desire. It's purely a mental disorder manifesting itself though an act of hate, fear, and control. Rapists are sick and dangerous criminals.
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Cristiano Ronaldo was the subject of allegations which were never proved and he was never charged with anything.  You should be more open minded about these kind of stories.  There are many cases of false rape allegations involving Premiership footballers.  There is undoubtedly no smoke without fire, but with the media offering 5 or 6 figure sums of money for these kind of stories then there is always the motivation for some deranged person to concoct a rape scenario that never occurred.
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Okay our legal justice system does perceive that there is a difference in certain offenses obviously you have them confused....How dare you to compare the heinous crime of raping someone (A felony) to the illegal immigrant to the date a (Misdemeanor -- to mean minor crime)
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phil jackson called him 'un-coachable'.  that means something.  i think he likes to score 50 pts because he thinks it'll win the game.  i think he does choose to be selfish and make all of those shots but i dont think he does it with a mentality of thinking that he doesnt care if he wins\n\n---i am not a kobe supporter---he's not a team player
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Can we handle the truth??\n       \n      Towards the end of the 2005-2006 NBA regular season\nall time assist great and current ABC Analyst Marc Jackson \nremarked that, "Kobe Bryant will go down as the greatest \nbasketball player of all times". Perhaps the biggest credit to \nKobe's talents is that there was not as big of an uproar as one \nmight expected when ranking a current player above the legacies \nof Magic, Kareem, Wilt and of course the man that is currently\nwidely regarded as the 'greatest'. Michael Jordan. The truth is\nas human beings we all like to look at the past and gasp in awe\nbecause the past is brought to us in clips and articles\nand commentaries. Most of the younger generation of basketball\nfans don't truly know how good of a perimeter player Jordan was\nat age 26 or what Jordan did during the 88 season. They only\nsee clips of a magestic Michael flying high with that now patented\ntongue hanging out. They don't see Michael's struggles during the\n89 playoffs against Detroit, they don't see Michael's inability or \nunwillingness to pass during his mid twenties as he threw up 26-30\nshots a game nightly. Perhaps because they don't see these things\nthey also failed to see the obvious. Kobe\nBryant will surpass Michael Jordan at the rate that he is going. It is \nnot 'perspective' or 'opinion' from a Kobe Bryant fan, it is simple\nbasketball common sense. At age 27 Kobe Bryant is greater then\na 27 year old Michael ever was. Kobe is the better shooter, he has\nmore endurance and is the more fluid dribbler. Yes, the similarities\nare eerie. Kobe and Michael will bring the ball down the court the same\nway, they will elevate to same heights as they leave defenders looking up\nin dismay, and of course in the clutch they will prove ADIDAS's marketing\nslogan, 'Impossible Is Nothing'. Of course if people took the time to dissect\nand anaylze they will suddenly realize that Kobe do dribble the ball down\ncourt in the same fasion as Jordan, except Bryant does it with a little bit more\ngrace. More like a running cheetah as oppose to a running lion. Yes, Bryant\ndoes shoot that beautiful jumper in similar ways to Jordan except that Bryant\ndoes it a few feet further out, and yes Bryant does elevate and drive to the rim in\nsimilar fashion as Jordan except that Bryant finishes with that tiny bit more of \ngrace and style. Bryant will also 'mimic' Jordan in another sense in that he will\nmake bounds and leaps of improvement year to year that only Michael had done.\nA 27 year old Michael compared to a 33 year old Michael is no comparison at all.\nThe 33 year old Michael was a true master of the game. We will see the same \ntrend from Bryant. At age 33 Bryant will so elevate above his current status that\nwe will see a mockery of his former self. \n        What's the reason for this predication?\nWhat is to say Kobe will not go down the roads of Carter and Mcgrady? The \nroads of false contentment and injuries? When it comes to physical perfection\nBryant is the model of that for basketball. The words 'for basketball' should be\nemphasized in that no Kobe does not have the best 'body' in the league or the\nbiggest muscles. Yes Ben Wallace make Kobe Bryant look like a high school kid\nagain and yes Lebron James is probably the fittest 21 year old in the history of this\nleague. Neither of the two have that basketball body in which only so very few had\nachieved. A basketball player perfectly designed is not ripping with biceps or with\nchests of Hercules.  Shaquille Oneal might be the perfect example of that. Oneal\nis considered the greatest force to play this game in terms of sheer size and strength.\nIn his prime that size and strength render him almost unstoppable, yet at age 34( a age\nin which Jordan was still winning championships while scoring 30+ a night with ease)\nShaq is clearly running out of gas and s
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yes,we all no that kobe didnt rape that girl because he's gay
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they usually do it because they think it makes them cool and makes them appear to be more "grown up." as for why people rape, those are the ones that have psychological issues and raping somebody makes them feel better about themselves, for a while at least.
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Its because america has not successfully receded from discrimination and racism and we never will. Its very shameful for a group of people that call themselves baseball fans to rip a guy whos been one of the best players in this game, but i can understand their viewpoint. Barry Bonds has already broken a few all time records and is on the verge to tap on the doorsteps of immortality when he surpasses Babe Ruth and takes the second spot in the all time hr record...all this while he took steroids. So these "fans" call him a cheat and all these negative things because of that. The thing that pisses me off is that there are many other baseball players that have taken steroids like jason giambi, gary sheffield, jose canseco, yet everyone has to drive Barry Bonds to the dirt. Barry bonds would still have been an allstar without the roids just without a few homers give or take 100. since he is the most high profile player in the steroid scandal everyone is disregarding him and hassling him. This is a terrible act and a type of discrimination. the media is not helping either. they are destroying all that is and was bonds and the guy is contemplating retirements because of all these bigots. if giambi was on the verge of breaking babe ruths record i wonder if people would hate on him....anyways, victor conti is the devil here. he should be banned from baseball and put into jail. make him suffer because he ruined all these great careers and put an asterik next to them.
735750
Well even if it is only an elbow it's still assault. That's just the type of person Kobe is, mentally unstable
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I haven't heard of him raping a little girl. I heard an allegation against him for giving a woman benadryl and supposedly sexually assaulting her. I would hope that neither of these things are true. He seems like a really geniunely nice person but many people quilty of horrid things seemed like nice people to their victims prior to their attack. It would saddened me greatly if it were true. Mankind itself is beginning to terribly disappoint me. Soceity is in a terrible moral dillema.
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Listen yo, I am a die hard Celtics fan, so I know all about the Lakers. I think Kobe is the best player in the league. He works hard as hell, and those who dis him or hate him (although how can you hate someone you don't know) don't know that, and are jealous of his abilities. That whole publicity stunt that whacko girl pulled in Colorado was BS. His wife is gorgeous why the heck would he cheat on her for a ugly biatch? Listen, my personal favorite player is Paul Pierce, but everybody deep down knows Kobe is the best, better than Lebron, better than Nash and Dirk and Timmy D.
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You sum it up perfectly, "...they found the rapist not guilty since they couldn't prove it..." \n\nThat is just it. Someone is truely innocent until proven guilty. Unless there is something that proves he knew that she did not want to have sex or there was a witness that saw the act, there is no way to prove it happened.\n\n I would be interested in what book that came out of. Will you tell us? The situation you describe sounds like it would not be an "ignorant" woman, but mabey a woman who was metally handicapped or an invalid. These cases come up from time to time and are a b*i*t*c*h* to prove. The tuely sick  predators rape these types of women.