“We’re celebrating his basketball excellence,” he continued. “We understand what happened in Colorado,” he referred to the rape case that happened when Bryant was 24. “That’s fair. But two things can be true.”
Charles Barkley’s response to the 2003 assault case is not sitting well with people, akin to Gayle King’s controversial interview with Lisa Leslie last week where she brought up Kobe’s rape case and asked Lisa if his legacy was tarnished.