Kobe Bryant has invited the flaccid judgment that he is all too human after hooking up with a 19-year-old woman not his wife.
The high number of commentators expressing shock is more shocking than the revelation.
Their standard giveaway line is: This is not the Kobe we know.
The superficial assumption comes from a fan-magazine familiarity with the principal.
In fact, we don't really know Kobe, as if there is something to know or can be known from the nothingness of the sit-down interview format.
He probably is just another 24-year-old guy who, on most levels, is trying to figure it all out, which is neither good nor bad, just not anything of great depth.
How many times does the point have to be made that exceptional physical gifts do not necessarily translate into exceptional decision-making skills?
Bryant risked at least half his considerable estate with this brief affair, assuming he and his wife do not have an "understanding."
That is the best you can say for Bryant at this point. The worst remains to be determined.
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Obama was excoriated for continuing the Bush administration's strictest national security policies, including indefinite detention, military commissions and a "targeted kill" program that authorizes the government to take out suspected terrorists anywhere. Published 8:56 p.m. July 29, 2010
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