[LA Times] Malone hit on Kobe's wife? http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-simers12dec12,1,1056605.column?coll=la-headlines-sports Summarized by RealGM: Kobe's Wife At The Center Of Malone-Bryant Feud? Shaquille O'Neal may now have a Florida zip code but still the soap opera continues out West in Los Angeles. According to T.J. Simers of the Los Angeles Times, two weeks before the Bryant radio interview that got Malone so heated the duo had a major falling out involving Bryant's wife. Both Malone, speaking through agent Dwight Manley, and Bryant confirmed the rumor Saturday night according to Simers. It is alleged that on November 23, the night the Lakers played the Bucks at Staples Center, Vanessa Bryant was talking on the phone to Malone's wife, Kaye. Kaye gave Vanessa her husband's cellphone number, and Vanessa called Malone, who was sitting at courtside and invited Malone's child to join her. Malone, wearing cowboy boots and a hat, eventually took the child to Vanessa. Malone hugged Vanessa, and then Vanessa asked — as Manley recounts this part of the story — "Hey, cowboy, what are you hunting?" "She said it twice," Manley said, "and Karl answered the second time, 'I'm hunting for little Mexican girls.' " Vanessa then later told Kobe that Malone had come on to her, and said several inappropriate things. She also told Bryant that she had called Malone's wife and asked Kaye to get her husband away from her. This is when Kobe got mad, calling Malone and yelling while Malone was relatively silent, never denying the alligations. Bryant, the article proclaims, preferred to keep the story out of the press but the New York Post reported this week that Malone was seen giving Vanessa a big hug, and then "somehow Malone managed to cross Vanessa" and got on her "frosty side." ------- Wow, this is just crazy. If anyone is registered with the LA Times, could you post the Simers article here? I'd love to see this embarassing Lakers drama in all its glory.
damn i just registered to do the same thing m_cable did, was about to submit it, then his reply came.... DAMN YOU.... I even had the perfect un/pw u/n yaorocks p/w malonesucks Crazy story though, man all the soap opera in LA, who the hell wants to be on that team, then again, Malone was the ass this time... no big surprise.
WOW you mean Kobe doesn't like the idea infidelity? Truly a SHOCK!!! I do not agree with Karla, but Kobe being upset about this is comical. to Kobe: "What comes around goes around, beach."
Well now... I'd say if he approached her wearing just boots and a hat, that would construe "hitting on".
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Sounds like she was the one hitting on him, and he just playfully called her bluff. Ok, that is it...SIGN Malone for the Rockets... DD
Nice, this drama has no ending. Is Kobe out of his mind? Why does he have to make it all public? http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=1944994&type=story Kobe blasts Malone for making pass at wife -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ESPN.com news services The Kobe Bryant-Karl Malone feud has turned personal, with Bryant accusing Malone of making a pass at his wife at a game. Rob Pelinka, the agent for Kobe Bryant, told ESPN.com Sunday night that Karl Malone made "several inappropriate comments" to Bryant's wife, Vanessa, on Nov. 23 at a Los Angeles Lakers home game against the Milwaukee Bucks. "Kobe and Karl had a true friendship, much more than teammates," said Pelinka. "Their wives are quite friendly as well. Kobe has told me that he feels very hurt and betrayed by what has happened." Bryant said to reporters before Sunday night's game against Orlando, "The comments that [Malone] said, I don't know any man in this room that wouldn't be upset about that. The past month, myself, my wife, [Malone's wife] Kaye, we've had fun together. "We've been out to their house, just joking around, giving each other a hard time, just clowning, being sarcastic with one another, baby-sitting kids and all that." Asked if there could have been a misunderstanding, Bryant said, "What he said is what he said. I believe in my heart that it wasn't a misunderstanding. My wife wasn't going to stand for it. She felt uncomfortable being around him to the point that she felt she had to call his wife and tell her." Bryant said Malone didn't deny making the comments, and told him during their phone conversation, "Aw, you know, I'm sorry if I said anything that was out of line." Bryant added, "He was like a mentor, like a brother to me, so when something like that happens, you're upset, you're hurt." Malone could not be reached for comment. Malone's agent, Dwight Manley, told the Los Angeles Times on Sunday that Malone was asked by Vanessa Bryant, "Hey, cowboy, what are you hunting?" in reference to Malone wearing a cowboy hat and boots. "She said it twice," Manley said, "and Karl answered, 'I'm hunting for little Mexican girls.' " Pelinka, who works for SFX and has been Bryant's agent for four years, said that he was told what transpired last month by Kobe and Vanessa Bryant. "Karl and his son were at the game sitting in the front row. 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." In the second half of the game, Malone sent his son over to sit with the Bryants. "Vanessa told me that she just was very uncomfortable at halftime and that Karl was acting and saying weird things." said Pelinka. "When the game ended, Vanessa walked Malone's son back to Karl. She told me that she asked Malone why he was wearing that (cowboy) hat. His response was, 'I'm hunting for young Mexican girls.' At which point Vanessa just walked away." On the car ride home, Vanessa Bryant told Kobe what had happened. Vanessa decided to call Kaye Malone and tell her about the way her husband had spoken to her. After they hung up, Kobe Bryant called Karl Malone on his cell phone. "Kobe told me that Karl just listened and didn't deny any of it. Kobe said Karl's only reply was, 'You know me man.' To which Kobe told him, 'That's right, I do know you. … and stay away from my wife,'" said Pelinka. "The next day, with all four of them on the phone, Karl denied it. At that point the Bryants knew that there was nothing left to talk about since they knew Karl wasn't telling the truth. Vanessa told me that she told Kaye that she wanted her to know 'just exactly what your husband did and you do what you want with the information.' " Last week Bryant said in a radio interview on XTRA that it was his intuition that Malone would retire. That comment lead Malone to reply that he did not want to be a distraction to the Lakers and blamed Bryant for the rift. According to Bryant, Malone told him before the season started that he was going to retire and spend more time with his family. Bryant said that Malone asked him not to speak publicly about his decision. Malone has been recovering from knee surgery and had told the Lakers that if he was going to return to play it would be with them.
