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[timetokill]

All this right before ESPN's hagiographic 30 for 30 of him goes live next week.

I haven't seen much of this outside of Deadspin so far. Maybe a warning flag? This isn't the first time he's been accused of sexual abuse towards young girls and women. But now there's video of an interview, so...
http://deadspin.com/police-video-shows-teen-girl-graphically-accusing-kevin-1735279363

Koba’s recollections of what happened with Johnson, whom she met when she was 15, have been circulating for years in the form of a police report that includes a transcript of the questioning she was given by Detective Art Smith of the Phoenix Police Department in 1996. You can read that report in full here. In it, she describes Johnson lying naked with her, fondling her breasts and vagina, lathering soap on her in the shower, brushing his penis against her, and asking her to pray to God for forgiveness with him and promise not to tell anyone about what they’d done.

Johnson, for his part, says that sexual abuse accusations are "part of the territory":

“It’s very unfortunate,” Johnson told the local ABC affiliate. “Something happened 20 years ago and it’s not true. You just got to move on, that’s just part of the territory.”

As for why she didn't come forward immediately, and a look into the influence he had over her:

The only child of a single-parent home, she is distraught talking about how a man who came into her life as a “father figure” asked her to leave her house late at night, wearing just a sweatshirt and socks, but no underwear. It finds the youngster—who according to the police report had been hospitalized for an eating disorder and weighed 95 pounds at the time of the interview—saying she was scared for her own well-being because Johnson’s hangers-on “know where I go to school.” She tells police she’s going ahead with the interview, however, because she thinks there might be others out there being abused by the rising Suns star.

Searched but didn't find anything. Mock if old.

 

[timetokill]

So maybe nobody cares about this story? But there's been an update: ESPN has pulled the episode from their 30 for 30 series indefinitely.

A source with ties to the Sacramento Kings’ media department, however, had already told Deadspin just prior to the review stream being yanked that the publicity about Johnson’s alleged misbehaviors had left the movie’s status “on the ropes.” That source also said Jason Hehir, director of Down In The Valley, was ordered by ESPN to refuse any interview request for the film while the network mulled its fate, and that network officials and even Kings brass were being advised to RSVP “No!” to Johnson’s movie party.

Full story here:http://deadspin.com/espn-shelves-its-kevin-johnson-documentary-1736089539

 

[kIdMuScLe]

Thanks for the update