{"id":208,"date":"2003-10-06T13:31:53","date_gmt":"2003-10-06T17:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2003\/10\/newsweek_goes_in-depth_on_kobe\/"},"modified":"2003-10-06T13:31:53","modified_gmt":"2003-10-06T17:31:53","slug":"newsweek_goes_in-depth_on_kobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/06\/newsweek_goes_in-depth_on_kobe\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsweek Goes In-Depth on Kobe"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kobe Bryant media circus is heating up. Newsweek takes a look at Kobe off the court<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\nIt’s his defining feature: an intense focus on basketball that has made Kobe Bryant one of the game’s greatest, but left him self-absorbed and socially stunted. Now he’s on trial for rape. The book on Kobe\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Kobe Bryant media circus is heating up. Newsweek takes a look at Kobe off the court. It’s his defining feature: an intense focus on basketball that has made Kobe Bryant one of the game’s greatest, but left him self-absorbed and socially stunted. Now he’s on trial for rape. The book on Kobe [read the… Continue reading Newsweek Goes In-Depth on Kobe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":188,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/16\/the_boondocks_clowns_kobe_again\/","url_meta":{"origin":208,"position":0},"title":"The Boondocks Clowns Kobe Again","date":"September 16, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In "Current Events"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":55,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/07\/kobe_arrested\/","url_meta":{"origin":208,"position":1},"title":"Kobe Arrested!","date":"July 7, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Say it ain't so Kobe! Kobe Bryant has been arrested on a felony count of sexual assault. This is really difficult for me to believe becasue it seems totally out of character for Kobe. It should be really interesting to see this story unfold.","rel":"","context":"In "Sports"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":88,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/18\/kobe_oj\/","url_meta":{"origin":208,"position":2},"title":"Kobe & O.J.","date":"July 18, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"I've just been reading some of the articles about Kobe Bryant being charged with sexual assault. I can't help but be reminded of O.J. Simpson's case. That's partly because they both had squeaky clean images before their 'incidents'. The racial components of the situations and the composition of their legal\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Current Events"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":213,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/07\/kobes_new_tattoo\/","url_meta":{"origin":208,"position":3},"title":"Kobe’s New Tattoo","date":"October 7, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Anil points out the caption on this picture of Kobe Bryant's new tattoo (update 10\/22\/2003 - Yahoo! has now expired that picture, but you can see it here): Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant shows off his new tattoo as a tribute to his wife, Vanessa and Psalm 27 during camp\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Current Events"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":121,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/29\/the_boondocks_on_the_kobe_bryant_scandal\/","url_meta":{"origin":208,"position":4},"title":"The Boondocks on the Kobe Bryant Scandal","date":"July 29, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"You knew it was coming. :-) The 'Kobe Beef' crack was cheap... I'm disappointed in Aaron. lol","rel":"","context":"In "Just for Fun"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/24\/kobe_23_lebron\/","url_meta":{"origin":208,"position":5},"title":"Kobe = 2\/3 LeBron","date":"June 24, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Nike just signed Kobe Bryant to a $40 - $45 million, 5-year deal. That works out to about 2\/3 of LeBron James' $90 million, 7-year deal. So is Kobe only worth 66% of LeBron? I guess time will tell, but the article linked earlier does a good job of explaining\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Sports"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}