Kobemania In China
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Kobe Bryant is almost too popular here to leave the Lakers’ five-star hotel in the Chinese capital.
“It’s harder for me to walk around here than it is in the [United] States,” he said. “In the States, you get a lot of recognition — ‘hi,’ and they want autographs and pictures and so forth and so on. Out here, it’s uncontrollable. They really rush you and surround you and then it becomes something where you can’t go out.”
On the other hand, there on 1.3 billion people in China and not one of them gives a shit about Johnny Football.
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