Rob Pelinka seems dead set on ruining any and everything the Los Angeles Lakers have going on and are trying to do this offseason.
The latest blunder by him came in a lengthy piece by ESPN where the Worldwide Leader in Sports was in the midst of his introductory press conference with the Lakers in 2017 and declared, “I’m a little bit of a storyteller by nature.”
He wasn’t lying. He went on to recall when Kobe Bryant had just saw “The Dark Knight” and just had to meet with actor Heath Ledger afterwards. The only problem there was that Ledger had already passed on months before the film was released, but somehow, Kobe still met with him, according to Pelinka.
“There was one time when Kobe, who I worked with for 18 years, was going back to play in Madison Square Garden, and he had just seen ‘The Dark Knight,'” Pelinka said. “Obviously, you guys saw that movie, and he’s like, ‘Hey, hook me up with dinner with Heath Ledger, because he got so locked into that role. I want to know how he mentally went there.’ So, he had dinner with Heath, and he talked about how he locks in for a role.
“And Kobe used some of that in his game against the Knicks.”
“The Dark Knight” was released in July 2008, six months after Ledger died. A source with direct knowledge said no such arrangement was made and no dinner ever took place.”
How do you make up such a blatant lie like that as if nobody would fact check it in the social media era?
You can read the entire piece here.
