First off, Vanessa is an ungrateful bitch. I know, a tad harsh, I'm sorry (kinda), but it's true. You already knew Kobe was a cheater, but you stayed with him anyway. Whose fault it that? And on top of that, YOU'RE MARRIED TO AN NBA PLAYER! All they do is travel to different cities and get a constant stream of pussy thrown at them by hoes wanting to be the next Royce Reed or Shaunie O'Neal, what do you expect them to do? If you wanted an NBA player that wouldn't cheat, you should've married A.C. Green.
My next thought is a question: Why do NBA players get married? I just don't get it, why not be single for your playing career, and get married once it's all over? You have nothing to gain and everything to lose. We all know you're gonna fuck strange pussy, so why fuck yourself in the long run by getting married, especially to a girl who isn't down for the cause? That's just dumb. And this nigga Kobe is exceptionally dumb because he did it in the state of California WITH NO PRENUP! Kobe better pray David Stern jumps in and vetoes this divorce because that's the only shot he's got to not get robbed in divorce court. He's already lost his house.
It's bad enough that Vanessa is "entitled" to half of the money she did nothing to make, but where Kobe is really gonna take a huge loss is in child support payments. The top 3 reasons athletes go broke are frivolous spending habits, funding family member's projects (i.e. record labels, barbershop, restaurants, etc.), and of course child support. Being on child support is like having a hole in every pocket of every pair of pants you own that no one can patch for 18 years. I've never been on child support, but I can just imagine how much it sucks, even if you are rich.
Now let's take a closer look at what Kobe might be forking over in child support for his 2 little girls. Generally, child support is about 20% of the highest earning parent's monthly income. According to ESPN, Kobe is due to make $25,244,493 from the Lakers for the 2011-12 NBA season. If we stretch that out over the next 12 months (not including taxes or whatever he'll end up having to pay in spousal support), that's $2,103,707.75 a month. Twenty-percent of that is $420,741.55 per month ($5,048,898 for the year), and that's just for one child -- Kobe obviously has 2. Now project that over the next 10 years for his 8 year-old daughter Natalia and 13 years for his 5 year-old daughter Gianna and that's (*thinking*) a lot of fucking money. (Note: Obviously Kobe won't be making in excess of $25 million a year over that span of time, so his payments will drop at some point, but probably not all that significantly... unless the judge is a Lakers fan.)
Since we've established Kobe will be paying out large chucks of his salary to his wife's household over the next 13 years, let's talk a little about what (or rather who) he can do to make some of that money back. Two words: Kim Kardashian. If you were a high profile athlete staring down the barrel of a costly divorce, why wouldn't your first phone call be to Kim Kardashian? Think about it, if Kim could net $17 million for marrying lame Kris Humphries, just imagine the money out there to be made for marrying Kobe Bean Bryant. I say this would be a win-win pairing for both parties.
The last thing I wanted to discuss was what Vanessa
