Posted on 11/25/2004 7:21:47 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
Indianapolis, November 25, 2004 - Indianapolis Police arrested Minnesota Timberwolves Michael Olowokandi early Thanksgiving morning at a downtown bar. Olowokandi spent the night at the Adult Processing Center after officers used forced to subdue him.
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More thuggish behavior from the NBA.
Probably took all night to find someone who could spell his name to properly book him.
Another thug giving free advertising to the NBA ...
Someone made the comment on TV that 40% of NBA players are convicted felons. I'm guessing this is too high, but does anyone have an accurate percentage?
Here you go:
Read the book Out of Bounds: Inside the NBA's Culture of Rape, Violence, and Crime by Jeff Benedict. In it he not only states the 40% figure, but documents it thoroughly.
Professional sports desperately needs a house cleaning, and the NBA is a good place to start. Let it be known that if they want to drink, fight, rape, and be thugs with drugs, fine, but it won't be on NBA money. Law breaking thugs need to be tossed out. At some point the league will clean up, and we will watch athletes, not jackasses.
Or society will do what I have already done.
We watch Atlanta Braves baseball, the World Series (especially if Atlanta is in it), The Super Bowl, and my wife sometimes watches NASCAR.
The rest of "professional" sports has been kicked to the curb.
The candy man as they call him here in M.N.
Who can't take a rebound,
and let the them score for 2
let the spurs take the lead and then foul out tooo
the candy man
whoooooah the candyman can
Excellent. Thanks
The nickname of the Portland Trailblazers is the Portland Jailblazers. Does that tell you something.
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