Sports Thread #1 For 5/18/10: The Distraction That Could hurt The Lakers?

I was wondering why she wore this shirt last night, thinking she just wanted to draw attention to herself .

Photo from SportsbyBrooks.com

Well, turns out, she was apart of the "Boycott Phil Jackson for supporting Jan Brewer's free racial profiling SB 1070 protest before Game 1 yesterday.

Fun Fun:

Vanessa Bryant, who is part Hispanic, wore the shirt on the game night that approximately 40 demonstrators rallied against Lakers coach Phil Jackson for refusing to criticize Arizona’s new immigration law.

In comments made two weeks ago about state Senate Bill 1070, Jackson said, “Am I crazy, or am I the only one that heard (the legislature) say ‘we just took the United States immigration law and adapted it to our state.’ “

Now this is the thing. This shouldn't be a distraction for any team, let alone a team as laid back and confident right now as the Golden jerseys.

However, with the political climate still the same in Arizona and the tensions that will come

But just out of nowhere, Jan Brewer could be the MVP of the NBA season. And with how the Suns played last night, and how they rallied against her racist law, it sure would be funny if this becomes an issue, especially when the series shifts to Pheonix.

Fun Reminder: And it was so funny that she wore that shirt last night, because she sure wasn't legal when Kobe wifed her .

Vanessa was a 17-year-old dancer in a rap video when Bryant first spotted her in 1999. Two years later, they were married in a ceremony that didn’t included Kobe’s parents, his two sisters, any his teammates or his longtime adviser and agent Arn Tellem.

L.A. TIMES headline at the time: “Laker’s Marriage Plans Are the Talk of His Fiancee’s High School.”

Oh those past days when Kobe was rapping (and Tyra Banks was singing):