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2011 NBA Playoffs |OT| Don't Compare Refs to Cigarettes
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Ninja Scooter
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He wasnt. Im just saying what really has Ron done that is so bad? Yeah in the context of a basketball game it was stupid, but if you are in a bar and some dude throws a drink at someone and proceeds to get his ass kicked is that so bad? Didnt he deserve it?KingGondo said:
Grimm Fandango
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Ninja Scooter said:
It's absolutely inexcusable to go into the stands like that. He should have controlled himself and let security handle it.
Going into the stands like that totally leveled the field between players and fans.
Ninja Scooter
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Of course it is, but what I am saying is is it so bad that 5 years later the guy can't have gotten his shit together and win an award for his charity work? He didn't kill or rape anyone, or run an illegal dog fighting ring, or watch his two friends stab a dude to death, or have sex with a 15 year old prostitute.Grimm Fandango said:
Grimm Fandango
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Ninja Scooter said:
Oh okay. Yeah he shouldn't have to relive it over 6 years later.
Black Mamba
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reilo said:
Your arguments are continually grounded on astounding logic.
Camby didn't win a citizenship award. This is so unfair. Boo Hoo. Woe is the life of a Blazer fan.
FormallyFamicom
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Who even mentioned Camby or the Blazers? Get your mouth off my dick already in regards to my team.Black Mamba said:
You guys defended Kobe after his rape allegations, and now are defending the crazy shit Ron pulled at the Palace? Wow. I don't want to ever hear any one of you dudes talking about another fan being too in love with a player because he's on their team. You guys take it to the extreme.
Shit, I didn't even defend Zach Randolph while on the Blazers and the shit he did is minor in compared to what Kobe and Artest pulled off. I don't even want to imagine the type of contortion act you'd pull if Vick was on a LA NFL team to suck his dick after the pitbull incident. You guys are shameless, but of course I shouldn't expect any better of Lakers fans.
Then you're no better than the asshole fan nor Ron Artest. Good job. You're all assholes.Darkman M said:
And even if we leave the allegations to the side, the fact of the matter is that he still cheated on his wife. You can keep focusing on the allegations all you want. Doesn't make him less of a shitty human being.
reilo: Which player has contributed more towards community service this year?
Odom gets the 6th Man for his work this year, primarily as a 6th Man, despite his past as a primary starter.
Artest gets the community service award for the work done this year in community service.
Odom gets the 6th Man for his work this year, primarily as a 6th Man, despite his past as a primary starter.
Artest gets the community service award for the work done this year in community service.
Oh I don't know. I'm sure if I bothered to do the research I could pull up any number of players that do a ton for their community.numble said:
But of course Lakers fans will come back with the $650k figure as some sort of "absolute fact" that Artest did the "most". It's a sad time when we commend players for donating a whopping 1% of the total salary they earned throughout their playing career as some grand gesture of generosity.
What? What the fuck?numble said:
The Stealth Fox
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Guy does a lot of community service. Guy gets award for community service. It's really not that difficult to understand.
Just like basic math.
Black Mamba
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reilo said:
Please, let's not pretend that you would care if Ron had won if Camby wasn't nominated. This is who you are. Always complaining about a Blazer being slighted.
I said your logic was astounding. And it is. As if past discretions matter in a yearly award. Even your Palin argument was stupid, and you just made me use Palin in a non-condescending tone towards her, so your comment was twice as awful as a normal comment.
I have never and will never defend what Ron did at the Palace. But what happened at the Palace has absolutely nothing to do with his contributions to society in the past 365 days.
I'm not going to sit here and argue that Ron should have won the award. I don't know the criteria and how they measure candidates. I only understand that charity work and societal contributions matter and Ron has done that in a noticeable way without being a detriment in the same time frame. I'm certain the other nominees did too. Insttead of whining about another Blazer being slighted in your eyes, why not just say "it's good to see Ron turned his life around."
Then if you don't know, then you have no right to criticize to begin with.
"b-b-b-ut the answer is certainly not Ron!" is not an argument.
I didn't even know Camby was nominated until you mentioned it. So quit that shit.Black Mamba said:
Hop off that Blazer dick already. Nobody mentioned Camby nor the team.
But keep on trucking! I eagerly await Lakers fans comments about Artest once he starts souring up the lockerroom and gets his ass traded. Rockets fans loved him at one point, too, until he showed up on a team bus carrying the owner in his underwear.
Six years? The guy was sentenced and sent to jail for domestic abuse just three seasons ago.Darkman M said:
Black Mamba
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Did Reilo just bring up infidelity for a sports athlete.
Oh, brother.
A bunch of Rocket fans still like him.
He helped us win a title. But is this what your argument boils down to? We will someday dislike him?
le sigh.
Oh, brother.
A bunch of Rocket fans still like him.
He helped us win a title. But is this what your argument boils down to? We will someday dislike him?
le sigh.
The Stealth Fox
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I mean, I don't like Ron Ron that much either, but there's all that mental health advocacy he did as well as auctioning off his only ring. That's probably why he got the award.
He's probably still a little crazy and he probably will garbage up their team chemistry sooner or later, and once he's left the Lakers, all these stories of his insanity will come out, but the award is for community service and that's what he's done.
He's probably still a little crazy and he probably will garbage up their team chemistry sooner or later, and once he's left the Lakers, all these stories of his insanity will come out, but the award is for community service and that's what he's done.
Black Mamba
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SamuraiX- said:
I'm not defending Ron-Ron doing what he did back then. I'm defending the right to be nominated for an award based on the past 365 days.
Ron deserved the punishment from that incident and what he did was wrong.
The Stealth Fox
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numble said:
Ron Artest showed up on a team bus in his underwear right in front of the owner. He's still a little crazy.
It's always after he leaves that all these reports come out of all the weird garbage he did.
Black Mamba
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SamuraiX- said:
Yes. Why wouldn't I? In fact, the only negative thing I know about him is he probably did heroine which he quit years ago.
Crazy Ron is crazy. So what?
That doesn't take away from the charity work he did this year.
To say 'wow he's only donating a grand total of 1% of his total career salary' is just petty. He's donating this entire season's salary for goodness' sake. Yeah it's not going to break him financially, but it's still very fucking generous and uncommon.
Then you add the efforts he made on behalf of mental health awareness... and him auctioning off his only championship ring (something he gave up lots of money to be able to compete for).
I think he's a great choice for this year's award.
That doesn't take away from the charity work he did this year.
To say 'wow he's only donating a grand total of 1% of his total career salary' is just petty. He's donating this entire season's salary for goodness' sake. Yeah it's not going to break him financially, but it's still very fucking generous and uncommon.
Then you add the efforts he made on behalf of mental health awareness... and him auctioning off his only championship ring (something he gave up lots of money to be able to compete for).
I think he's a great choice for this year's award.
Jamesfrom818
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When did Absinthe hijack reilo's account?
Jeez this is a reminder why I recently had to endure a nauseating "holiday" (as I do every year) where people unironically celebrate the fact that they have constructed societies without a possibility for redemption and have to invent omnipotent dudes that watch you poop to assuage the intellectual contradictions this creates.
LiveFromKyoto
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Ninja Scooter said:
He did have his dogs seized by animal services for animal abuse (he wasn't feeding them), and he was arrested for domestic abuse when he beat his wife, and he did jail time for it (only 10 days though, yay celebrity). He hasn't been a great person even though the Laker media propaganda machine sweeps everything under the rug and makes him look like he's just a kooky fun guy.
ClovingWestbrook
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thekad said:
Don't worry Kad, when the Lakers lose to the Hornets and are eliminated, there will be demands for change.
ClovingWestbrook
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dream said:
Saving Kobe's ass vs Phoenix.
Thanking his therapist.
BruceLeeRoy
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Dream if it comes to that I'll voluntarily call social services and put myself on their list.dream said:
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