L.A. CONFIDENTIAL.Byline: -- Ross Siler Kobe Bryant Kobe Bean Bryant (born July 23 1978) is an American All-Star shooting guard in the National Basketball Association (NBA) who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers. doesn't even remember the play that led to a $75,000 lawsuit lawsuit: see procedure; tort. being filed against him by a fan in Memphis, Tenn. The fan, identified as Bill Geeslin, claims Bryant deliberately elbowed him as he dove for a loose ball in a game. ``I really don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. too much about it,'' Bryant said. ``I haven't really paid attention to it too much. If a player's trying to save a loose ball and keep his team in contention and try and win a game, if that's something that a player has to do, then a player has to do it. He has to keep the ball alive. That's why we're out there is to play basketball.'' Geeslin's attorney, Robert Coleman, declined to elaborate on the filing Wednesday to the Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. but said he hadn't been in contact with Bryant's attorneys or agent. |
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