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A Theoretical Question: Is Kobe Bryant the most unlikeable athlete in the world?


Even if we were to look past all the obvious things about Kobe Bryant that we don’t like: He’s a lousy friend, a lousy husband,, a sore loser, lousy teammate and unable to win the big game.

But now we learn that Kobe is also the most popular athlete in China. Yes China, that great bastion of totalitarianism, where dancers are kept in cages, millions of people are removed from their homes by force to build (very nice looking) stadiums, 80-year-old women are sent to reeducation camps, and three year olds are taken from their homes to be trained as gymnasts. But, hey there’s a billion Chinese folks who buy sneakers so why not send our athletes to shill for them? It’s not like Kobe isn’t already getting paid millions of dollars to wear sneakers made in a fully licensed manufacturing facility, he has to go for the trifecta. Ugh, this off season can’t end soon enough.