Karl Malone wins Legend of the Year at NBA Legends Brunch

[Knightfall]

Kobe's death was only 3 years ago. I saw how most of you behaved and continue to behave when anyone brings up what happened in Denver.
Those NBA fans should stop embarrassing themselves by talking about Karl Malone. Most of you have no right to do it.

Imagine comparing adultery to a 20 year old man impregnating a 13 year old child. Go away.

By calling it adultery you completely proved his point. Both are and were scum bags.

[Doranku]

Kobe's death was only 3 years ago. I saw how most of you behaved and continue to behave when anyone brings up what happened in Denver.
Those NBA fans should stop embarrassing themselves by talking about Karl Malone. Most of you have no right to do it.

Imagine comparing adultery to a 20 year old man impregnating a 13 year old child. Go away.

By calling it adultery you completely proved his point. Both are and were scum bags.

All sexual assault charges were dropped. Gotta love how we went from "innocent until proven guilty" to "guilty even when declared innocent".

[Laimbeer]

Raping 13 year old girls pays, apparently.

[Revived]

How has he not been cancelled? I'm not a big cancel culture guy, but he definitely deserves it.

a lot of men are willing to forgive other men of things they've done against women. like isiah thomas is still a huge nba presence despite his past actions.

Jason Kidd is a HC, Chauncey Billups is a HC, Kobe Bryant is a celebrated legend, shoot Miles Bridges and Josh Primo will likely be playing for some team next season.

NBA likes to be woke about many things but this isn’t one of them.

[Revived]

Kobe's death was only 3 years ago. I saw how most of you behaved and continue to behave when anyone brings up what happened in Denver.
Those NBA fans should stop embarrassing themselves by talking about Karl Malone. Most of you have no right to do it.

Imagine comparing adultery to a 20 year old man impregnating a 13 year old child. Go away.

Didn’t Kobe himself admit afterwards that it wasn’t consensual?

[Knightfall]

Imagine comparing adultery to a 20 year old man impregnating a 13 year old child. Go away.

By calling it adultery you completely proved his point. Both are and were scum bags.

All sexual assault charges were dropped. Gotta love how we went from "innocent until proven guilty" to "guilty even when declared innocent".

He wasnt declared innocent for one. And 2 with a apology that he gave everyone with half a brain knows what happened.

But hey, Karl Malone was never found guilty. Never even went to a trial. OJ isnt guilty either right. And he was actually cleared in court and found not guilty. So all is good.

Or is it because he's your hero you chose not to accept what happened?

[Knightfall]

Kobe's death was only 3 years ago. I saw how most of you behaved and continue to behave when anyone brings up what happened in Denver.
Those NBA fans should stop embarrassing themselves by talking about Karl Malone. Most of you have no right to do it.

Imagine comparing adultery to a 20 year old man impregnating a 13 year old child. Go away.

Didn’t Kobe himself admit afterwards that it wasn’t consensual?

That a certain part wasnt.

It was butt stuff. He anally raped that girl is what most believe.

[C3H6N6O6]

Imagine comparing adultery to a 20 year old man impregnating a 13 year old child. Go away.

By calling it adultery you completely proved his point. Both are and were scum bags.

All sexual assault charges were dropped. Gotta love how we went from "innocent until proven guilty" to "guilty even when declared innocent".

Kobe was a good guy with good character. That girl was the monster for even going to the Police.
Did she not know that Kobe had already won 3 rings with Lakers? How dare she?

[Cavsfansince84]

All sexual assault charges were dropped. Gotta love how we went from "innocent until proven guilty" to "guilty even when declared innocent".

The charges were only dropped because the accuser decided to just pursue a civil suit. It was scheduled to move into trial otherwise and then of course she did get paid off to just go away basically. Not saying this means Kobe was innocent or guilty. I think most likely they just had sex and maybe he got a little rough with her since there were bruises and then she decided to go the rape route afterwards. Kobe wasn't declared innocent of anything though. Its just that the accuser pursued money over a rape conviction and had very questionable character issues which I think she knew were going to be brought up.

[bradybunch]

Karl's made some mistakes, but he's a good country boy deep down.

Everyone knows the backbone of this country is hardworking country folk.

Well deserved.

[FluLikeSymptoms]

Ok, now never show your face again.

[kg01]

How this become a Kobe thread?

[MorbidHEAT]

Kobe's death was only 3 years ago. I saw how most of you behaved and continue to behave when anyone brings up what happened in Denver.
Those NBA fans should stop embarrassing themselves by talking about Karl Malone. Most of you have no right to do it.

Imagine comparing adultery to a 20 year old man impregnating a 13 year old child. Go away.

Didn’t Kobe himself admit afterwards that it wasn’t consensual?

I thought Kobe always maintained that it was consensual but because of the power dynamic that he could understand how it might not have been consensual from her perspective? Maybe I'm wrong, but thats what I remember.

[NZB2323]

How has he not been cancelled? I'm not a big cancel culture guy, but he definitely deserves it.

Nobody deserves to be 'canceled'. That's mob justice. You have the justice system to sort out people like Karl. Sometimes it fails, but it's not the job of the rest of us to dish out mob justice.

OK, so maybe 'nobody' is a strong word. Some people probably deserve to be canceled. But I think we need a Ted Bundy or Harvey Weinstein threshold or it's going to get slippery really fast.

I think you can argue that what Malone did was worse than what Weinstein did.

[NyKnicks1714]

There is ambiguity around what Kobe did, regardless of where you land. There is none around what Karl Malone did. We know it for a fact.

[dockingsched]

Imagine comparing adultery to a 20 year old man impregnating a 13 year old child. Go away.

By calling it adultery you completely proved his point. Both are and were scum bags.

All sexual assault charges were dropped. Gotta love how we went from "innocent until proven guilty" to "guilty even when declared innocent".

They were dropped cause the victim didn’t want to testify after everything she had already endured.

Read the police reports where she gives a detailed account on how Kobe refused to let her leave his room, repeatedly physically intimidated her, how Kobe lied to the police trying to claim he hadn’t even had sex with her. When confronted she had already been examined, he then changed his story that he did have sex with her, when confronted she has bruising, he revealed he always has rough sex with a mistress, read about how he decided to say shaq always pays this off with money and cars and has spent over $1 mil doing so.

Innocent until proven guilty is great an all, but it’s important to recognize an environment where victims can be intimidated and asked to sacrifice the life they had, and how that can affect their willingness to continue to subject themselves to the hurt by testifying in a public setting.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kobe-bryants-disturbing-rape-case-the-dna-evidence-the-accusers-story-and-the-half-confession

[Doranku]

Imagine comparing adultery to a 20 year old man impregnating a 13 year old child. Go away.

Didn’t Kobe himself admit afterwards that it wasn’t consensual?

I thought Kobe always maintained that it was consensual but because of the power dynamic that he could understand how it might not have been consensual from her perspective? Maybe I'm wrong, but thats what I remember.

This is what he said after she dropped the sexual-assault charges in his apology:

"Although I truly believe this encounter between us was consensual, I recognize now that she did not and does not view this incident the same way I did. After months of reviewing discovery, listening to her attorney, and even her testimony in person, I now understand how she feels that she did not consent to this encounter."

[bradybunch]

And lmao @ Kobe raping a girl.

Puhlease.

Complete money grab by a mentally ill opportunist.

Imagine how pathetic you'd have to be to white knight for that one.

Oof!

Strike: Misogyny

[iLLmatic860]

Peoples true colors always shows in these threads

[UglyBugBall]

How has he not been cancelled? I'm not a big cancel culture guy, but he definitely deserves it.

Nobody deserves to be 'canceled'. That's mob justice. You have the justice system to sort out people like Karl. Sometimes it fails, but it's not the job of the rest of us to dish out mob justice.

OK, so maybe 'nobody' is a strong word. Some people probably deserve to be canceled. But I think we need a Ted Bundy or Harvey Weinstein threshold or it's going to get slippery really fast.

I think you can argue that what Malone did was worse than what Weinstein did.

I don't really think you can. Doesn't absolve Malone of what he did, but Weinstein has over 100 sexual assault accusations, and dozens of outright rape allegations. That's just what's out there. We're talking about a man who committed these crimes over the course of decades. He's not a man that committed a rape. He's a serial rapist that committed rapes over and over as routine. He would have continued committing these crimes until dead had he not been convicted.