{"id":58,"date":"2003-07-08T10:57:57","date_gmt":"2003-07-08T14:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2003\/07\/kobes_street_cred\/"},"modified":"2003-07-08T10:57:57","modified_gmt":"2003-07-08T14:57:57","slug":"kobes_street_cred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/08\/kobes_street_cred\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobe&#8217;s Street Cred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of <a href=\"http:\/\/tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/archives\/2003\/07\/kobe_arrested.php\">Kobe Bryant&#8217;s arrest<\/a>, all kinds of conspiracy theories are floating around.  The one getting the most publicity is that this whole incident was staged to give Kobe more street credibility.  Here are two good articles which put that theory to the test:<\/p>\n<p><UL><br \/>\n<LI><a href=\"http:\/\/eurweb.com\/articles\/columns\/07082003\/columns1048907082003.cfm\">Sneaker Pimpin?<\/a><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nba\/s\/2003\/0707\/1577650.html\">Will brush with law raise Kobe&#8217;s &#8216;street cred&#8217;?<\/a><\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of Kobe Bryant&#8217;s arrest, all kinds of conspiracy theories are floating around. The one getting the most publicity is that this whole incident was staged to give Kobe more street credibility. Here are two good articles which put that theory to the test: Sneaker Pimpin? Will brush with law raise Kobe&#8217;s &#8216;street&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/08\/kobes_street_cred\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kobe&#8217;s Street Cred<\/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":[15],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":90,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/19\/more_on_kobes_street_cred\/","url_meta":{"origin":58,"position":0},"title":"More on Kobe&#8217;s Street Cred","date":"July 19, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's an excellent article about the nonsense of all the recent discussion of Kobe Bryant's 'street cred' - Bryant doesn't need criminal record to possess street credibility. I, like the author of that article, have issues with the use of the term 'street cred'. Most of the reporters who are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":164,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/21\/lebron_james_to_represent_sprite_and_powerade\/","url_meta":{"origin":58,"position":1},"title":"LeBron James to Represent Sprite And Powerade","date":"August 21, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Looks like LeBron may be taking Kobe's Sprite spot. As I've said before, they sure can't use 'Obey Your Thirst' with Kobe anymore.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","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":58,"position":2},"title":"Kobe&#8217;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 &quot;Current Events&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":75,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/13\/kobe_claims_innocence\/","url_meta":{"origin":58,"position":3},"title":"Kobe Claims Innocence","date":"July 13, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are Kobe's first comments about the alleged sexual assualt - Bryant: 'It Will Be Fine': \"When everything comes clean, it will all be fine, you'll see,\" Bryant said during a brief telephone interview. Bryant declined to discuss the case, but said, \"But you guys know me, I shouldn't have\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":392,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/16\/kobe_bryants_admission_of_consensual_sex_with_a_second_woman\/","url_meta":{"origin":58,"position":4},"title":"Kobe Bryant&#8217;s Admission of Consensual Sex with a Second Woman","date":"September 16, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I just saw this in the EUR. I can't say I'm surprised, but still... damn!!! KOBE'S VIRGINIA WOMAN: 'SI' reports on player's admission of consensual sex with a second woman. \"Sports Illustrated,\" journalist Jeff Benedict has obtained a sealed statement made by Kobe Bryant and recorded by police before he\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","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":58,"position":5},"title":"Kobe &#038; 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 &quot;Current Events&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"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=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}