Then you may want to look away at the Kobe threads for the next few days.
Deification is a natural element of the processing of death. I'm not a fan, and yet I understand it. Don't go kicking the anthills of those folks, they are sad enough.
I’m not a fan either, but when a retired sports star is both a good father to his children and a mentor to young kids in sports which keep single parent children occupied and out of trouble, I give him a pass for indiscretions that occurred years past..