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[quote=Anonymous]Just because we watched him on TV shooting hoops does not mean that we know him and his personal life.  I don't want to say that he was a great dad and husband. That is for his kids and wife to say. He was a very successful basketball player and had a lot of privilege that money, celebrity and connections get you.

I do agree with the WaPo columnist that his life work felt incomplete. He won fame and fortune in basketball and at least his professional basketball life was complete. I would like to believe that if he had lived, he would have reinvented himself as a philanthropist or women's right advocate mainly because he was the dad of 4 girls and he was also atoning. We will never know now.

For me, a woman who is not into sports, he will always be the person who raped a young girl, a teenager, and got away with it because of his money and intimidation of the accuser, that meant that I could never watch him or admire him. As for his wife?  You can call her complicit in accepting the rape rock, or brave for salvaging her family, but curious minds want to know, how can you trust a husband after such a huge betrayal?

The problem with Kobe Bryant is that while he settled with the victim and saved himself legal problems, he never won true forgiveness for that act. His subsequent actions (support for WNBA, Mamba academy etc) may be interpreted as supporting women or could be interpreted as self-serving in expanding his business interests and furthering Gigi's career. He did not live long for us to know.

As for the rest - he was a great basketball player, and  he made his fortune and fame in the game. That part was not left unresolved and unfinished.

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