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The website Sports By Brooks says that during last night's Lakers game, Nicole Richie (the non-Hilton half of "The Simple Life" duo) was interviewed on Fox Sports Net and said on the air that Kobe Bryant was her favorite player "because I want to have sex with him." Sideline reporter Bill MacDonald, says Brooks, "withdrew the microphone and awkwardly replied, 'We've got to go back upstairs.'"
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