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Reporter cussed out by Vanessa Bryant
Kevin Roderick • Bio • Email
Laura Lane covers the Lakers forESPN.com. She wrote a mildly invasive item about that weird purple tutu thing that Vanessa Bryant wore on the floor the night Kobe picked up his MVP award.Then after game 2 of the San Antonio series, Lane was leaving the Lakers locker room when Vanessa lit into her. Lane attributes it in part to the "rumors" of Kobe bonkingone of the Laker Girls - "a hotter version of his wife who is also named Vanessa" - who has suddenly vanished from the squad.
Reporter cussed out by Vanessa Bryant
Kevin Roderick • Bio • Email
So as I'm walking out of the Lakers locker room after some post-game interviews with the players, I pass Vanessa, who is sitting outside the locker room as usual with her two girls.
"Laura!" she screams (yes, she apparently knows my name). "+@*$ you! You !#**%@@ $#%%%!"
"Excuse me?" I say, completely baffled as I look around me to see if there is someone else named Laura. No, there's not.
Her daughters - ages 5 and 2 - are sitting next to her on the bench looking at their mom as she screams.
[More f-words ensue. Many more.]
I just stare at her. I've heard many stories about her from reporters, but this was unbelievable. Two of my friends from the LA Times told me how she cussed out one of them last season, because he said hi to her daughter. "Join the club, this means you've arrived," said one reporter when word spread of my run-in with Vanessa. "She's insane," said another. "Everyone knows it."
Lane is a 2007 USC grad who has worked at E! Online and was Ryan Seacrest'sintern for awhile. She blogs, "The sad part is before all of this I kind of liked Vanessa and I thought we hit it off. She doesn't give a +@*$ aboutanything. She wears these insane outfits, struts around Staples Center like a queen, shows off her daughters and lets them run around the hall way playing tagwhile reporters are trying to get by....As a journalist I am going to piss people off. That's just the nature of the business. I never want to or intend topiss people off, but if you're not pissing people off occasionally, then you are constantly kissing +%%."
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THE VIBE AND VANESSA BRYANT
At 7:10pm Staples Center isn't even half full. "Traffic was awful tonight!" a couple fans sitting courtside complain. The Lakers players know better than to sit in L.A. traffic. Walton carpooled from to the game in teammate Jordan Farmar's car.
"We gotta save the environment!" Walton says. "We live right next to each other so we switch off." Seems the guys have learned the art of compromise on the court and in the carpool lane. "He plays the music way too loud when he drives," Walton says. "He listens to his music and when I drive I get to listen to my music."
Like...the Grateful Dead?
"Yup, all that good stuff."
Staples Center is playing quite the eclectic mix tonight as well. Ritchie Valens' "La Bamba", Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust", Bob Marley's "Stir it Up", and the Jackson 5's "Abc" are just a few songs that fans are dancing to. Oh, and tonight everyone gets a free yellow t-shirt that says 'Our team, Our time, Our MVP.'
Kobe's wife, Vanessa, has opted to make her own fashion statement. Vanessa, who is usually prim and proper in all black has decided to have fun tonight with her outfit. She's wearing a white tube dress, a purple tutu, black leggings, high heeled short boots and a rhinestone incrusted white leather jacket with the number 8 on the back, Kobe's old number. Bryant's daughters, Natalia and Gianna both have shirts that say "Got MVP?"
"When he changed his number I didn't have anything with a 24 on it so I had them make this dress," Vanessa says. "I don't know how to sew that well so I just told them what to do."
The girls, however, prefer their soccer uniform over ballerina tutus.
"I have stuff like this for them but they don't want to wear it," Vanessa says. "She's like, 'I don't want to wear it. It itches.'" Bryant's kids have recently started playing soccer in addition to gymnastics, ballet and hip-hop.
"I'm like a total soccer mom," Vanessa says.