It was the next day, as I recall.
What I found amazing about this case was that the press zealously guards the names of rape victims but, in this one exception, the media gleefully revealed the woman's name and repeated hearsay evidence from men she'd dated.
Laker fans worldwide weighed the interests of a rape victim versus seeing their star athlete in jail for an extended period of time and decided to attack and smear the woman with the gleeful assistance of the media that saw their own financial hit coming if Kobe didn't play. It was the most unfair thing I'd ever seen until the 2016 election.
It wasn't about "men she'd dated." It was about the men she'd slept with in that 3-day period, including evidence that she'd slept with a man right after the alleged "rape."