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During Kobe Bryant's career with the Los Angeles Lakers, he had an up and down relationship with the media that covered him. There were good stories and bad stories, and he at times let it be known what he thought of certain reporters.
Toward the end of his basketball days, however, he started warming up to reporters. It was evident in the types of answers he gave and the way he'd act toward them.
But when thinking back to his playing days, he doesn't miss some of the things the media had to do in order to cover him and the team as a whole, per Serena Winters of Lakers Nation.
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I don’t miss the unfortunate behavior that a lot of media outlets have to participate in, which is like the down in the weeds type of questions in journalism, like dealing with stuff that seems to be big news topics that people want to hear about, be it LaVar (Ball), be it all this sort of other stuff. I don’t miss that portion of it, you know what I’m saying? Like this person said this, and this person said that, and therefore we can create this issue, and then make it something that people will now read. … I don’t miss that part of it.
Bryant is right that the media sometimes have to chase salacious headlines and cover stories that don't seem to have much to do with basketball at all. But that's what editors and fans want sometimes, and it's part of the profession.
