I just found an interesting story from the Washington Post via The Lakers Nation about how Kobe's been dealing with the officials as of late.
Bryant has held his tongue, walked the other way or used another, more
confusing means to voice his frustrations to officials. "I just cuss
them out really bad in Serbian," Bryant joked.
Bryant said he has learned how to swear in the native languages of teammates Vladimir Radmanovic (Serbia), Sasha Vujacic (Slovenia) and Ronny Turiaf (France). "I've been cursing in French. French is really cool, because everything sounds good in French."
Now, I'm not typically one to condone bad behavior, but I have to admit; I find this pretty humorous.
Despite Kobe's MANY mistakes throughout his career, to have the ability to speak multiple languages is pretty impressive. I know this article alludes to a few bad words in Serbian or French (yuck), the fact is, he is fluent in Spanish, Italian and Japanese, and of course English. The man is a chameleon. He never ceases to amaze me.
Good thing the ref's are too simple to pick-up on it...one more tech and he sits a game. (I hope you didn't let the cat out of the bag tim, I'll never forgive you)
:)
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with the officials as of late.
