If you were looking to categorize Kobe Bryant's return on Sunday, the only proper term—at least one we can print at a family publication—is "event."
From the moment Bryant entered Staples Center to the moment the clock struck zero on the 106-94 Toronto victory, everything was rife with Hollywood excess. Fans were subjected to a spectacle appropriate only for the Second Coming—and to some in attendance it felt just that way. There was the video montage. The raucous, Beatles-like reaction when he came out for warm-ups. And, finally, the inferno-featuring introduction.
First, an admission: I have never seen a Star Wars movie. Space, weird creature things that talk in gibberish sentences and science fiction just aren't my bags. But when "The Imperial March" started playing from the speakers, it was hard not to get lost in the moment. We weren't watching a basketball game between two thoroughly mediocre (at best) teams; we were watching an event. One no different from the Grammys, Oscars or MTV Video Music Awards.
Here's the thing about events, though ...
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