Lebron Has No Game

• slcoach

  Tiernan;1241800 wrote:Ahhh my old buddy Go Chiefs trying to be clever again. I've acknowledged on here a couple of times I was charged with DUI back in 2010 and beat the rap (although I emphatically do not deny I was drinking that night and got behind the wheel of a vehicle which is very stupid).
  
  And for those who think I'm being racist or off base about the marajuana thing...read the entire string. Its about the NBA condoning the use of grass which is very hypocritical and its about the majority of athletes (which happens to be a huge Black majority) in that league who continue break laws and basically act like ass-holes in society. But please continue to support these scum bags so you can feel better about yourselves not being "racist". The crazy thing is most of you know I'm absolutely right but you don't have th guts to say it out loud.

  So which player on the US team is the scum bag that acts like an ass-hole in public?
  
  And sitting behind a fake name on a message board isn't saying shit out loud.
• Tiernan

  NBA: THAT'S A CRIME!
  
  By DAREH GREGORIAN
  --
  The NBA is rapidly turning into a national criminals' association: A whopping 48 percent of NBA players have police records, a bombshell new book charges.
  
  The book by investigative reporter Jeff Benedict, "Out of Bounds: Inside the NBA's Culture of Rape, Violence & Crime" isn't supposed to hit bookstores until later this week, but The Post located a copy that went on sale earlier.
  
  In it, Benedict finds that 48 percent of the American players in the NBA during the 2007-08 season had police records involving a serious crime.
  
  "It's a situation that is out of control and absolutely demands close scrutiny," Benedict writes.
  
  The book is almost a "Who's Who in the NBA," and recounts legal scrapes involving everyone from Shaquille O'Neal, Patrick Ewing, Penny Hardway, Allen Iverson and Bonzi Wells to Ruben Patterson, Glenn Robinson and Damon Stoudamire.
  
  The book notes that the problems with the law aren't a distant memory for many players.
  
  Just as All-Star Kobe Bryant was being charged with sexually assaulting a Colorado woman, "25 law enforcement agencies in 13 cities in the United States and Canada were simultaneously proceeding with arrest warrants, indictments, plea-agreement proceedings or trials involving more than a dozen other NBA players," the book says.
  
  Most of the player crimes involve violence against women, Benedict found.
  
  His nationwide search, which focused on American players, turned up "33 criminal complaints of domestic violence against NBA players who played during the 2008-2009 season," a figure he said "is probably the tip of the iceberg" because "nationally, domestic violence compares with child abuse and rape as the most underreported crime in our society."
  
  ...I was mistaken not a "majority"... ONLY 48%!
• O-Trap

  

  Tiernan;1241823 wrote:NBA: THAT'S A CRIME!
  
  By DAREH GREGORIAN
  --
  The NBA is rapidly turning into a national criminals' association: A whopping 48 percent of NBA players have police records, a bombshell new book charges.
  
  The book by investigative reporter Jeff Benedict, "Out of Bounds: Inside the NBA's Culture of Rape, Violence & Crime" isn't supposed to hit bookstores until later this week, but The Post located a copy that went on sale earlier.
  
  In it, Benedict finds that 48 percent of the American players in the NBA during the 2007-08 season had police records involving a serious crime.
  
  "It's a situation that is out of control and absolutely demands close scrutiny," Benedict writes.
  
  The book is almost a "Who's Who in the NBA," and recounts legal scrapes involving everyone from Shaquille O'Neal, Patrick Ewing, Penny Hardway, Allen Iverson and Bonzi Wells to Ruben Patterson, Glenn Robinson and Damon Stoudamire.
  
  The book notes that the problems with the law aren't a distant memory for many players.
  
  Just as All-Star Kobe Bryant was being charged with sexually assaulting a Colorado woman, "25 law enforcement agencies in 13 cities in the United States and Canada were simultaneously proceeding with arrest warrants, indictments, plea-agreement proceedings or trials involving more than a dozen other NBA players," the book says.
  
  Most of the player crimes involve violence against women, Benedict found.
  
  His nationwide search, which focused on American players, turned up "33 criminal complaints of domestic violence against NBA players who played during the 2008-2009 season," a figure he said "is probably the tip of the iceberg" because "nationally, domestic violence compares with child abuse and rape as the most underreported crime in our society."
  
  ...I was mistaken not a "majority"... ONLY 48%!

  First, this doesn't state whether or not the rap sheets were acquired while NBA players or prior.
  
  Second, your own words were that the "majority" (but we'll take 48%) of them "continue [to] break laws." Having something on your record (like a DUI, for example) doesn't equate to someone continuing to break laws, does it?
  
  Third, and getting back to the contention, how does having something on your record make you a "thug?" If you hadn't been acquitted, would you be a thug?
• rmolin73

  

  I'm still wondering what that article has to do with the olympic team?
• Automatik

  

  rmolin73;1241847 wrote:I'm still wondering what that article has to do with the olympic team?

  Or anyone on the Olympic team having off the court issues. Besides Kobe cheating on his wife, who else has had issues?
• O-Trap

  

  Automatik;1241851 wrote:Or anyone on the Olympic team having off the court issues. Beside's Kobe cheating on his wife, who else has had issues?

  Yeah, but that's not a thug thing. That's a bigwig CEO thing.
• Tiernan

  The "thug" tag is appropriate because of the acceptance of criminal behavior the NBA allows to persist. In your profession...whether it be Accounting, Medical, Civil or Labor; there is no way your employer is going to accept 48% of its work force having a criminal record. Does that mean the small minority which do happen to end up in the system for DUIs, small possession,domestic disputes...etc are "thugs"? No absolutely not.
• Automatik

  

  O-Trap;1241855 wrote:Yeah, but that's not a thug thing. That's a bigwig CEO thing.

  Exactly, point being...Tiernan is full of shit. But I'm sure everyone already knew that. :laugh:
• O-Trap

  

  Tiernan;1241861 wrote:The "thug" tag is appropriate because of the acceptance of criminal behavior the NBA allows to persist. In your profession...whether it be Accounting, Medical, Civil or Labor; there is no way your employer is going to accept 48% of its work force having a criminal record. Does that mean the small minority which do happen to end up in the system for DUIs, small possession,domestic disputes...etc are "thugs"? No absolutely not.

  So the NBA is a thug, then. Got it.
  
  An individual is an individual, whether or not they have other people around them who fit the same description or not. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
  
  Are there people in the NBA that I would consider "thugs," sure. Not the majority, though, or even all of those who have a record. Given your near miss, you would be be hypocritical to not do the same.
• Tiernan

  rmolin73;1241847 wrote:I'm still wondering what that article has to do with the olympic team?

  Do the Olympic 12 play in the NBA or not numnuts?
• rmolin73

  

  Tiernan;1241880 wrote:Do the Olympic 12 play in the NBA or not numnuts?

  Other than Kobe who has gotten in trouble? Thats like me calling you an alcoholic that drinks and drives. Oh wait......
• Automatik

  

  rmolin73;1241894 wrote:Other than Kobe who has gotten in trouble? Thats like me calling you an alcoholic that drinks and drives. Oh wait......

  lol.... hypocrisy at it's finest.
• sportswizuhrd

  Someone want to show me proof of this "fact" that the NBA does not test for marijuana?
  
  EDIT...this is the only thing I can find that Tiernen could be talking about. http://blogs.sun-sentinel.com/sports_basketball_heat/2011/07/nba-smoke-em-if-you-got-em.html
  

  That citation former Heat forward Michael Beasley received last week for possession of marijuana?Strictly a legal issue, nothing more.
  An NBA spokesman confirmed Wednesday to the Sun Sentinel what logic would have dictated anyway:
  In the void of an NBA collective-bargaining agreement, there is no substance-abuse policy currently in place. None.

• slcoach

  Tiernan;1241880 wrote:Do the Olympic 12 play in the NBA or not numnuts?

  
  My rec league team has 2 guys that have DUI s. Does that make me an alcoholic?
  
  You are reaching numb nuts!