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I WANT TO FORGIVE KOBE … PLEASE TELL ME HOW YOU DID
Less than an hour before tipoff in Game One of the National Basketball Association Finals, and I still don’t know if I’ll be able to root for the Lakers. The reason? I hate Kobe Bryant … possibly more than I hate the Boston Celtics. That’s hate. I want to stop. I want to forgive. If you have, tell me how you did it?
How did you stop hating Kobe for all that “Who da man?” crap with Shaq, back when even winning three titles in a row couldn’t make him happy if he wasn’t the center of attention? How did you stop hating him for helping to break up that Lakers team with his threat to go elsewhere? How did you forgive him for the sleazy rape charge in Colorado? And how have you reconciled yourself with Kobe’s incredibly unprofessional demands to be traded—to leave the Lakers team you loved—at this time last year, basically because he believed that his talents were such a treasure that they would be besmirched if they didn’t have a couple more NBA titles to go with them … with whatever team, it really didn’t matter? How have you stopped hating him for insulting team owner Jerry Buss, who had made Kobe an incredibly rich man, general manager Mitch Kupchak and all of his teammates, who he basically told the world were unworthy to play with him? Can you imagine how it felt to be young Andrew Bynum, barely out of high school, hearing the greatest basketball player in the world ridiculing you?
I grew up loving the Lakers. I want to love them, still. I do love them … all of them but Kobe. But I just might find myself pulling for the Boston Celtics. Stop me! Tell me how to forgive!
Tags: Andrew Bynum, Celtics, forgiveness, hate, Jerry Buss, kobe bryant, Lakers, Mitch Kupchak, Shaq
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