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Kobe's wife says Malone remarks inappropriate

Sunday, December 12, 2004


ESPN.com news services

Karl Malone and Kobe Bryant aren't getting along, and now it might be a little more apparent why.


Bryant and Malone's agent, Dwight Manley, confirmed to the Los Angeles Times a story circulating around L.A. that the falling out between the two likely Hall Fame players came after Bryant's wife, Vanessa, said Malone made inappropriate comments to her.


The Times reported Vanessa invited Malone to bring his child to where she was seated during a Los Angeles Lakers game Nov. 23 at Staples Center against the Bucks. Malone, seated courtside and wearing cowboy boots and a hat, obliged.


Malone and Vanessa Bryant hugged, according to Manley. Then Vanessa Bryant asked Malone, "Hey, cowboy, what are you hunting?" Manley said.


"She said it twice," Manley said, "and Karl answered the second time, 'I'm hunting for little Mexican girls.' "


Vanessa Bryant told Kobe after the game last month that Malone had made a pass, the Times reported. She also asked Kaye Malone, Karl Malone's wife, to get her husband away from her.


Malone has not spoken on the subject publicly, instead choosing to relay messages through his agent.


"Karl wants me to give you two messages," Manley told the Times. "He never hit on Vanessa, nor would he. …In fact, when he first heard about [the accusation], he said, 'You have to be kidding me.'


"As for the comments he made to her that offended her personally, he told both her and Kobe that night that he apologized."


The Times reported Manley said despite Malone's apology, "Kobe followed that with a string of threats."


Manley added Bryant called Malone's home the next day with more threats, and that Kaye Malone had heard them.

"My client is a racist, not a womanizer" -- that guy's not really earning his 15 percent.

Seriouisly, Why does kobe start stuff with guys who could REALLY lay a whuppin' on him? I think he believes his own TV ads, damn.

He makes threats to Karl Malone? the man is in great shape and i'm pretty sure he did alot more brawlin' growing up than Kobe did.

Is there anything that doesn't happen with those wacky Lakers?

I think this is all a grand conspiracy by Kobe to raise the NBA's ratings.

Gotta love the adulterer getting pissed that someone was hitting on his wife...

Living in a hispanic neighborhood, those little Mexican girls are hot. I hunt them all the time.

Yeah, you'd figure that she's owed a freebie in there somewhere :)

Odd ...
 

Hmmm :confused: :eek:

No one can escape the Malone Diamond Cutter.

I never realized Antarctica was a hispanic neighborhood.

bravo.

If this has been an ongoing problem, why did she invite him over to sit next to her? Sounds to me like she is just trying to sitr up some shit.

Ah, but there's more to the story. Apparently, according to Vanessa, she did not throw out the bait.

"Karl and his son were at the game sitting in the front row," Pelinka said. "Vanessa was on the cell phone talking to Karl's wife, Kaye, and Vanessa said that her son looked bored. Kaye told her to call Karl to have her son join her in her seats. Kaye gave Vanessa Karl's cell number and she called him. When she called, Karl's response was, 'Why don't you come over here and sit next to me and give me a big hug?' Vanessa said, 'Why? For what?' And Karl replied, 'If you do that it will be on the cover of every magazine in the country.'

"Vanessa didn't know what to say because this was the first time she had ever spoken to Malone without Kobe or Kaye being around. Karl continued. 'Do you like me?' Malone asked her, to which Vanessa said, 'As my friend, Kaye's husband,' " Pelinka said.

"From there Malone asked Vanessa if she could keep a secret, and that he would like to tell her something. At which point Vanessa told him she was a married woman and he was a married man who was old enough to be her father. To which Malone replied, 'Oh, like your daddy?' At that point she told me she ended the conversation," Pelinka said.

Malone's a funny guy. :)

Maybe Karl went about it all wrong. He should have pulled out a $5 million diamond bracelet. That sort of thing seems to work for her...