(Face)book reviews

1) This is what I didn't hear much about when I fiddled with the radio and caught part of an interview on NPR today. (I have not checked back to see if I might have missed something.)

"Much of the book, though, is about Bryant. How could it not be? Bryant has often been a polarizing figure in his 17-year career.

Jackson even talked about how the sexual-assault charges levied against Bryant in 2003 temporarily changed his outlook on the perennial All-Star.

It 'cracked open an old wound' because Jackson's daughter was the victim of an assault while on a date with an athlete in college.

'Brooke expected me to get angry and make her feel protected. Instead I suppressed my rage — as I'd been conditioned to do during childhood by my parents … it left her feeling alone and unsupported.' (In the end, after filing a report with the police, Brooke chose not to press charges.)

'The Kobe incident triggered all my unprocessed anger and tainted my perception of him. ... It distorted my view of Kobe throughout the 2003-04 season. No matter what I did to extinguish it, the anger kept smoldering in the background.'

Charges were dropped against Bryant in 2004, a few months after the Lakers lost to Detroit in the NBA Finals.

The coach-player relationship eventually improved to the point that Jackson defended Bryant after his infamous trade demand in 2007. Bryant was irritated after three languid seasons and wanted to continue his championship pursuits elsewhere.

'No question, losing Kobe would be a blow to the organization and to me personally,' Jackson wrote of that summer."

 -- http://articles.latimes.com/2013/may/16/sports/la-sp-phil-jackson-kobe-20130516

2) Here's a very pretty picture (that was removed from Facebook) from this article: Facebook Still Doesn't Consider Rape Jokes To Be Hate Speech.