LAS VEGAS, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Kobe Bryant, after being booed off stage, reportedly shoved illusionist David Copperfield aside at Las Vegas' World Music Awards, it was reported Monday.
The basketball star and Copperfield were backstage at last Wednesday's awards show watching Usher perform when Bryant said "I've got to see this" and rudely pushed Copperfield in order to get a better look, MSNBC said.
"Afterwards, David said something like, 'Maybe I should just snap his neck or something,'" said an unidentified source.
Bryant could not be reached for comment, but Copperfield, through a spokesman, commented on the mini-altercation.
"(Kobe) didn't push me. I pushed him and I have the DNA to prove it," the illusionist said.
Bryant reportedly didn't start out in a bad mood.
"Bryant was being super-friendly and sort of flirty with the young women in those slinky outfits who carry around the awards. But after he got booed off stage, he came back in a bad mood," the source said.
