Monday - November 22, 2004

Basketball Assholes

First, this year we had Kobe Bryant involved in an “alleged” rape in Colorado. Now, we have two teams (Indiana and Detroit) crawling into the stands and duking it out with their fans. One of the suspended players, Ron Artest, has been penalized ten times already by the NBA for his temper tantrums.

Here’s a little bit of information for you from a new book entitled “Out Of Bounds” by Jeff Benedict ....

Based on a first-of-its-kind investigation into the criminal histories of 177 NBA players from the 2001–2002 season, Out of Bounds shows that an alarming four out of every ten NBA players have a police record involving a serious crime. They are All-Stars and they are journeymen, involved in crimes ranging from armed robbery to domestic violence to gun possession to rape.

Excuse me, but all the rest of us have to go through background checks before we get hired (in most cases). So what is wrong with our professional sports associations when 40% of its players have a criminal record involving violent crime?

On top of that, every week we hear of another player in one of the major sports being busted for illegal drugs. These people are being placed in front of our children as “role models”? Horse-shit! It’s the media that glorifies these criminals and their antics and our kids just eat that crap up while sitting in front of the boob tube.

And the real heros in Iraq and Afghanistan go unnoticed by that same media unless there is a chance to make them look bad as happened recently with the Marine who shot and killed an “unarmed Iraqi insurgent”. Again, HORSE-SHIT! I’m getting sick and tired of this bias and the glorification of pissant criminals who are only good at dribbling a round ball. Any doofus can dribble. Very few can stand up to enemy artillery fire and keep fighting against madmen while 5,000 miles from home.

It’s past time for the media and that large number of Americans to get their priorities straight. If I were commissioner of the NBA, those players would be permanently banned from the game. After all, what’s good enough for Pete Rose should be good enough for Ron Artest .... if it weren’t for the facts that (1) Artest is black and Rose is white and (2) baseball is much stricter on its players than the NBA.

It’s time to boycott basketball. Send the NBA a message. Let’s get the criminals off the court and into court.

Posted by The Skipper     on 11/22/2004 at 09:31 AM   
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