Kobe Bryant: “I shouldn’t have to say anything. You know I would never do something like that.”
No, we don’t know you, Kobe, as Strib sports columnist Dan Barreiro points out today.
We didn’t know Kirby Puckett, either.
Of course, we think we know Mike Tyson but his celebrity is equally one-dimensional, as local philosophy prof Gordon Morino wrote in his NY Times Magazine piece on him illustrated last year. ($ NYT archives.)