All this talk about Gilbert Arenas this week just makes it worse for the NBA. This is a league that just cant get out of the way of this bad image they have created.
Arenas gun issue is just one issue that is a long line of image problems for the NBA. They have players all over the league in trouble for infidelity. Hey if were throwing Tiger under, why not all of them too. They have players involved in fights in the stands, fights at night clubs, beating there spouses. Not to mention all the problems the ALL-STAR game causes when it comes to town.
Phoenix and Las Vegas both said they didn't appreciate the crowd the NBA brought in with them. You have a lot of altercations. You have players throwing parties with door guys checking to see if your diamonds are real. Its the life that these guys lead. The people and image they keep. I understand the way these guys dress but you don't have to act that way. I even dress like a kid still. Shoot! Don't you even have a dress code? The money you make, the toys you buy, the houses you have on cribs everyone wants this but we have these guys in a light that shouldn't be that way.
Brandon Jennings might be my favorite basketball player. He drives a ford edge, lives in a normal condo, and said he is saving his money because he heard there was going to be a lock in the next few years. Another athlete who is one of my favorites Dontrell Willis, who said 300k a year is a lot of money to him. That was when he was a rookie, he got a big contract but you still don't see him out flashing guns around.
These guys make money hand over fist and we still give them a pass. Jason Williams killed someone in his home and is now drinking and driving. We let these guy get away with everything. Like I said before David Stern has given every player a second chance and they never learn from it.
Spreewell choked his coach. Got to come back into the league. Artest fights fans and hes back in the league. Stephan Jackson shoots guns and fights fans hes back in the league. I don't see anyone being punished for there actions. Maybe if you take a page from the NFL and actually band these thugs like Lawrence Phillips. Sure the NFL has there fair share of second chances too. I understand that you should be given a second chance but to me these guys don't need to be getting that type of cash. Maybe the second chance would be to be let back in an arena to see a game. Allan Iverson and Stephan Marbury never did anything illegal but they are looked at like outcasts and that is because the image. You let these guys get away with being trashy and acting trashy then your going to attack trashy fans. That is why you have this type of following the NBA has.
I think that its got so out of hand that they needs a serious image make over. If they start to fine there players for everything maybe it will clean it up. Shoot look at Chris Anderson. Hes an outcast and its all about his image. Tattoos are fine I have them but you don't need to act like a thug. You play basketball not hockey! Anderson gets caught up on the drug thing again he should be out of the league. I think these guys get very easy suspensions and that is exactly what Arenas thought that is why he joked about it. He figured he would get a second chance like everyone else and it would be funny.
I'm hoping Stern gives him a stern sentence and this will show guys around the league that its not a joke and we are to represent this league as adults not punk kids.
That's whats on my mind
SIMSZEE
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