September 29, 2004

There's No Love In Shaq's House Tonight

I'm a *huge* Lakers fan, and was obviously agitated when they lost to the Pistons this year (though my clients in Detroit reveled: "That was the Lakers? I think they forgot to show up!" That's right, I had to endure smack talk from clients.). Since then, however, this drama-prone team has been broken up -- with Diesel headed down to hurricane country. It's just as well too -- because I don't think the team could have survived the latest revelation from the now-released Kobe files:

    "Bryant made a comment to us about what another teammate does in situations like these," Winters wrote. "Bryant stated he should have done what Shaq (Shaquille O'Neal) does. Bryant stated that Shaq would pay his women not to say anything. He stated Shaq has paid up to a million dollars already for situations like this. He stated he, Bryant, treats a woman with respect, therefore they shouldn't say anything."

    In a closed court proceeding before the felony charge was dropped, Bryant's attorneys fought successfully to have the reference to O'Neal declared inadmissible at trial, according to a prosecution source.

Ugly. Almost as ugly as some of Kobe's, er, bedroom proclivities.

Posted by thomas at September 29, 2004 12:57 AM | TrackBack