As anyone who covers the NBA knows, Kobe Bryant has the most passionate fans in the league.
Write anything about Kobe – positive or negative – and his legion of supporters will come out of the woodwork to complain it wasn’t more favorable.
The cult of Kobe reached its pinnacle on Christmas Day.
A Kobe fan – @MyTweetsRealAF – and @SnottieDrippen, who blogs at HoopsCritic, had the typical “How good is Kobe?” argument. Eventually, it got heated (on one end, at least).
The Kobe fan set up a fight in Temecula, which @SnottieDrippen pretended to accept (even though he wasn’t in the same state). Next thing you know, the Kobe fan was posting pictures of himself driving to and arriving in Temecula:
Arash Markazi of ESPN:
I asked Kobe about Temecula. He hadn't heard about it so I told him. "Mamba Army don't f--- around."
— Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) December 29, 2014
Showed Kobe the Temecula tweets and he started laughing. Couldn't believe something like that would actually happen.
— Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) December 29, 2014
The Kobe fan later posted a diss track directed at @SnottieDrippen (warning: language):
I can’t wait to hear Kobe’s response to that.