{"id":75,"date":"2003-07-13T12:06:39","date_gmt":"2003-07-13T16:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2003\/07\/kobe_claims_innocence\/"},"modified":"2003-07-13T12:06:39","modified_gmt":"2003-07-13T16:06:39","slug":"kobe_claims_innocence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/13\/kobe_claims_innocence\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobe Claims Innocence"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHere are Kobe’s first comments about the alleged sexual assualt – Bryant: ‘It Will Be Fine’<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“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 to say anything. You know I would never do something like that.” He sounded surprised at the rumors being spread about that night. “Man, there’s a lot of crazy stories out there,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 to say anything. You know… Continue reading Kobe Claims Innocence<\/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":392,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/16\/kobe_bryants_admission_of_consensual_sex_with_a_second_woman\/","url_meta":{"origin":75,"position":0},"title":"Kobe Bryant’s Admission of Consensual Sex with a Second Woman","date":"September 16, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I just saw this in the EUR. 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