Artest arrested
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Wow. Just....wow.
Let's hope it was just a minor confrontation blown out of proportion and not something serious - I've known a couple things like that to happen over the years (extended family or friends of friends). Sometimes emotions get the best of us and make us do things we normally wouldn't - on both sides (calling the police when it really isn't warranted and blowing it out of proportion isn't exactly unheard of, but then again, neither is spousal abuse, unfortunately).
Hope everyone's OK in the Artest homestead.
Let's hope it was just a minor confrontation blown out of proportion and not something serious - I've known a couple things like that to happen over the years (extended family or friends of friends). Sometimes emotions get the best of us and make us do things we normally wouldn't - on both sides (calling the police when it really isn't warranted and blowing it out of proportion isn't exactly unheard of, but then again, neither is spousal abuse, unfortunately).
Hope everyone's OK in the Artest homestead.
(http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=sports&id=5094153)
Apparently this is not the first time after all.
Apparently this is not the first time after all.
Apparently these two have been at odds for a while now. It might turn out that it was a violent argument on both sides, and when she realized that he was a 6'6 monster she called the cops in a fit of rage. But of course I can't be for sure, I don't want to speculate. I'm just hoping it's not as bad as it sounds...
Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock...
Boom.
Just examine the man's history, which will no doubt be exposed in tomorrow's paper (again). Then ask yourself one more time: Am I surprised?
Look in your heart for the sincere answer.
Detroit. The dogs. Wanting to work at Circuit City. Wanting time off to promote his squeaky-voiced rap album. Even that haircut he just got. It's all part of a disturbing pattern.
Am I surprised? No. Sickened is more like it.
For his sake, I hope he hires the same lawyer Musselman got. Maybe Ron can get 48 hours of in-home detention, too (all timed so it doesn't interfere with a road trip, of course; that's the most important part.).
I want to go out on a limb here and make a prediction: Ron's going to get fired. I hope he's played his last, PROVIDED he gets a conviction.
With the stuff going on about the dogs, I just can't believe anyone who says this surprises them.
What would Ron be doing if the NBA didn't exist?
Boom.
Just examine the man's history, which will no doubt be exposed in tomorrow's paper (again). Then ask yourself one more time: Am I surprised?
Look in your heart for the sincere answer.
Detroit. The dogs. Wanting to work at Circuit City. Wanting time off to promote his squeaky-voiced rap album. Even that haircut he just got. It's all part of a disturbing pattern.
Am I surprised? No. Sickened is more like it.
For his sake, I hope he hires the same lawyer Musselman got. Maybe Ron can get 48 hours of in-home detention, too (all timed so it doesn't interfere with a road trip, of course; that's the most important part.).
I want to go out on a limb here and make a prediction: Ron's going to get fired. I hope he's played his last, PROVIDED he gets a conviction.
With the stuff going on about the dogs, I just can't believe anyone who says this surprises them.
What would Ron be doing if the NBA didn't exist?
Yeah, I'm the wifey went around smacking him and he defended himself, maybe got a little ticked and pushed her or something. He's a big dude so she could have went flying. Maybe they were fighting on who was going to let the dogs out! or Maybe Ron's still mad that his wife made him drive the little car that he hurt his back in, maybe his knees! 
This is a serious situation and I don't mean to crack jokes about it. Man has the Kings organization had some bad press this year with Muss and now Artest with his dogs and now his wife. He really doesn't do good with animals does he?
Wow this has to be an all time low in Kingsland with the coach, and the underachieving and non cohesiveness, Bibby heavily shopped around, Artest with the dog neglect, now the wife problems.
This is a serious situation and I don't mean to crack jokes about it. Man has the Kings organization had some bad press this year with Muss and now Artest with his dogs and now his wife. He really doesn't do good with animals does he?
Wow this has to be an all time low in Kingsland with the coach, and the underachieving and non cohesiveness, Bibby heavily shopped around, Artest with the dog neglect, now the wife problems.
I say he's innocent until proven guilty.
Domestic violence is a messy issue. You cannot fairly assume that there is a mousy little beaten down woman who is being beaten down by an evil man whenever the domestic violence charge comes up. Women can be guilty of domestic violence too. Any number of things could have happened that would not be Ron's fault, he may have been defending himself. We don't know.
Let's wait for all of the informaiton before passing judgement.
Domestic violence is a messy issue. You cannot fairly assume that there is a mousy little beaten down woman who is being beaten down by an evil man whenever the domestic violence charge comes up. Women can be guilty of domestic violence too. Any number of things could have happened that would not be Ron's fault, he may have been defending himself. We don't know.
Let's wait for all of the informaiton before passing judgement.
Don't know. It depends on what his contract says.
Also don't know. And we still don't know much in the way of details. We can all guess, speculate, pontificate, etc. but right now the only thing we know for sure is that he was arrested, bail was set and he's probably already out of jail...
There's a press conference set for 4 p.m. that's going to be streamed live on the News10.net site.
Also don't know. And we still don't know much in the way of details. We can all guess, speculate, pontificate, etc. but right now the only thing we know for sure is that he was arrested, bail was set and he's probably already out of jail...
There's a press conference set for 4 p.m. that's going to be streamed live on the News10.net site.
I do believe in innocent until proven guilty but wow. This sucks. And so do some of the comments on this thread. Spousal abuse is nothing to snark at.
From a basketball standpoint the NBA is usually consistent in not taking action on off court matters until the law has run its course so don't expect serious fall out until the offseason.
From a basketball standpoint the NBA is usually consistent in not taking action on off court matters until the law has run its course so don't expect serious fall out until the offseason.
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