Kobe Bryant ESPN Interview About Gay Slur Fine
Two things you need to know right up front.
Kobe shouldn’t be calling anyone a “faggot”. That is weak and in poor taste. It is disrespectful to the gay community and just like an African-American we wouldn’t want people going around using the phrase nigger regardless of context, Kobe should know better.
Secondly 100k is like $1 to Kobe Bryant so this isn’t about money.
The problem is with David Stern.
Kenyon Martin once called Mark Cuban a Faggot M*therF*cker, threaten his life and called him a bitch. Don’t believe me here is the video.
Guess how much Martin was fined?
$0
Simply put because it was Kobe Bryant and not a Von Wafer style player is why this is a “story”. NBA players and athletes in general have horrible language on the court and are never fined.
Refs say awful things to the players and are never fined.
When a ref called a Suns players a “Bitch” it didn’t make a blip on the National radar and Stern didn’t do jack. Stern says Kobe was fined because of what he said was “offensive”.
I would be offended if I brought my kid to a game and had to hear Kevin Garnett drop MF bombs for four quarters, but Stern hasn’t done anything about that for 15 years.
Stern is a hypocrite, a fraud, who likes to exert power because he has a Napoleon Complex. The NBA will be better off when he goes away preferably John Gotti style.