Re: Bryant Set to Do Advice Column for the LA Times

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If you read on, the guy who wrote that blog says it's a joke. I don't
know. If he was just rehashing something he had read elsewhere then
he might just be expressing his opinion that it's a joke.


fooled the Times bloggers too...

Weirdest... Rumor... Ever
by Andrew Kamenetzky

http://lakersblog.latimes.com/lakersblog/2006/06/weirdest_rumor_.html#co
mments

I'll start by getting the answer to your natural first question right
out of the way:

Yes, BK and I do receive checks from the L.A. Times, but we are
complete outsiders when it comes to the daily inner workings of the
paper itself and know absolutely nothing about this. I also don't
picture our opinion being asked.

Anyhoo...

According to Lakerstalk.net, the L.A. Times will be employing Kobe
Bryant to do a bi-weekly advice columnist for the paper. Seriously, you
read that right. Apparently, all questions are fair game (including
personal and relationship-centric) and Kobe's prepared for whatever
heat or negative feedback he'll take. He just wants the readership.

Let's throw out for second the fact that an advice column is completely
beneath a guy of Kobe's stature, accomplishments and intelligence. I
simply can't imagine that this is actually true because of how
steadfastly Kobe has guarded his private life. I've also never heard of
this website, so I have no idea how much credibility they have when
reporting "anonymous sources" within the Times. Were this Donnie
Brasco, I wouldn't "vouch for them." I'll ask a few sources of my own
when I get a chance, but like I said, I'm calling B.S. That being said,
should the four horseman of the Apocalypse drop by and "Dear Mamba"
actually turns out to be in the works, what, if anything, do you plan
on asking the guy? Hoops advice? Marital questions? Whether a sport
jacket and T-Shirt is appropriate for a dressy dinner? Or will you
simply block it out and refuse to acknowledge that Kobe's taking part
in such nonsense (similar to how I treated Jerry Rice participating in
Dancing With the Stars, despite the fact that BK and I actually wrote
an ESPN The Magazine article about it and accompanied him in rehearsal
and on set)?

Again, very weird.


if you read the bottom part, where you leave "comments", you'll see
that the author of the article, butcher8, verifies that "It's a joke".
READ CAREFULLY before posting dude.

Posted by: Chris

....I did read the whole thing. That comment by Butcher 8 wasn't there
when I linked the article. They also discussed it on PTI and Around the
Horn today, so "Butcher 8" didn't have this clarified as a joke from
the get go (assuming the guy who left the comment saying it's a joke is
actually the same person who wrote the article. As we've learned from
this blog, folks like to post under other people's names).

AK


"Dear Kobe,

I can't tell you how disappointed I am that your
forthcoming advice column is all a cruel hoax
perpetrated by some Lakers forum "sock puppet."
The emotional distress is almost too much to bear.
In light of this, please send those few mil ASAP.
Thanks again for being such a pal. Go Lakers!


first you got to bend over this chair...

P.S. Oh, and don't forget to drop 81 on Porty.
Thanks again, Kobe. You're the greatest!" ;-)


No problemo...81 in 3 this time ;-)
.

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