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ISOLATION PLAY

By Tim Keown

Friday, February 15, 2008

Anyone with a shred of sense cringes each time Kobe Bryant shows up for another televised awards show. One week, he's designer classy at the ESPYs, another he's bling-bling street casual for the Teen Choice Awards. Now there's an event whose very name should have been enough to scare off a man accused of sexual assault against a 19-year-old. But the man on the other end of the line—a man in the basketball business who's known Kobe and his family since the NBA star was 17—is laughing ...

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