LOS ANGELES, CA (Sportsman’s Daily Wire Service) — After Game 1 at the Staples Center, a triumphant Kobe Bryant left the floor and headed under the stands to the locker room where Vanessa Bryant and the couple’s two children waited, providing viewers at home with a warm Hallmark moment. It was a scene the Bryants have enacted a number of times before, and while scripted down to Vanessa’s bionic smile, it’s been a demonstrable pr asset, seeming to humanize the aloof, self-absorbed, hard-to-like superstar.

But things took a horrible turn when a fuming Kobe stormed off the court after a gut-wrenching 106-103 loss to the Cavaliers. (More)