Evans suspended one game for incident
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Bricklayer
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And unforunate on a number of levels. You could see it as a possibility, but now it threatens to mess up our opener, and as was mentioned earlier this month, we have a great patsy early season schedule and could potentially win our first 5 games before running into the Lakers on national TV. Would have been a great way to get momentum/hype.
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Bricklayer
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Yep. Which sets a really shaky precedent actually. Commit the same offense off of camera and escape suspension? But it makes a certian sense from the NBA's perspective since they really aren't concerend about the underlying cri..traffic ticket, as much as they are the public relations balck eye for the league.
Unfortunate yes, but I can't really say I have a problem with it as long as this type of incident will receive a consistent response.
The Hammer
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I think the rest of the team will step up, Beno will probably have a great game, and we'll win.
Jechtsphere
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Didn't the Bee ask for the tape to be released? Thank the bee >.>
Peter_Gibbons
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Did LeBron James get suspended after getting cited for going over 100MPH a few years back? This is bull!!
Section 101
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Lebron didnt get charged with reckless driving.
ElRey
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Yep You could thank the Sacramento Bee for this. This and their great coverage of the Kings.
It also wasn't the middle of the day.
rainmaker
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You can thank Voison personally for this. I hope she's happy. She is such a.....
PurpleHaze
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Evans was shortly before 7pm on Memorial Day - same weekend as Indy 500!
I just watched video again (13.17 minutes) and I must say it's obvious that silver 2010 Dodge Charger and Tyreke's deep purple Mercedes are racing down westbound I-80 consistently above 100mph. They cross multiple lanes in clear recklass acts and just as Tyreke overtakes the Charger after seveal miles of trailing close behind he exits off freeway. Video ends with guns drawn on him and in handcuffs. I saw previous tape (this one seems to cut off couple minutes early) that had him setting in back of CHP cruiser for only a few minutes and then handcuffs removed and let go from the temporary custody.
The infamous chase:
http://videos.sacbee.com/vmix_hosted_apps/p/media?id=16841328&item_index=28&all=1&sort=NULL
Section 101
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Ya cause she made him do it.
Gotta luv it when people dont put the blame on the person who causes it.
I hate Ailene Voison as much as anyone else, but you can thank Tyreke for this. He's the one driving 130MPH on a busy highway, not Voison. This suspension is his fault, no one else's.
RookieOfTheDay
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Pretty lame but not surprising. This is ultimately what you end up with when you have a culture that expects athletes to maintain some type of off-court decorum just because they happen to play professional sports. As long as athletes are expected to be role models and "represent their cities" this type of (over)reaction will continue. If more owners, players, and fans stood up and demanded that legal matters be dealt with appropriately, by the law, and not be transformed into league and team matters, then maybe this type of nonsense would eventually cease.
The problem with things like this is that it becomes very hard for the NBA to consistently draw the line. Obviously not every speeding ticket warrants a suspension. And perhaps without the video evidence coming to light Tyreke wouldn't have gotten suspended at all.
At the end of the day Evans did something incredibly stupid and dangerous and hopefully the attention and suspension are a wake up call for him. If it helps give him some perspective on how to conduct himself then 1 game is a small price to pay.
At the end of the day Evans did something incredibly stupid and dangerous and hopefully the attention and suspension are a wake up call for him. If it helps give him some perspective on how to conduct himself then 1 game is a small price to pay.
Sorry, but I have to pretty adamantly disagree with your assessment. It's not about being a role model. It's about not doing something so incredibly stupid that it could have killed numerous people, including the athlete in question. A one-game suspension is a slap on the wrist. Tyreke was dumb; granted most of us have also done something dumb so I don't think people are ready to tar and feather him over the incident. You're making excuses for Tyreke Evans that I quite frankly find rather puzzling. Would you make the same excuse for Joe Blow, average citizen, especially if you were on the freeway and the two cars blew by you and your family?
I, for one, want to see accountability at all levels. In this case, Evans has been put on notice by his employer - the NBA - that this kind of action is unacceptable. Did you voice objections when Nocioni and even Musselman faced penalties from the league because of their improprieties?
Every public incident that brings negative attention to the NBA hurts the bottom line. If I were the commissioner I'd do the same thing. The negative perception a lot of the public had of NBA players in the 70's was keeping the league from being more successful. It's less about being "role models" or "representing their city" than turning off the casual fan and more about not losing ticket sales and ad revenue.
And it isn't as if any of these policies are a surprise to NBA players. They know the deal. They get millions of dollars a year to play basketball. Part of that package is avoiding breaking the law, acting inappropriately or putting themselves or others in danger off the court.
RookieOfTheDay
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RookieOfTheDay
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You're misrepresenting my position. I'm not "defending" Tyreke. I'm not defending anyone for that matter. My sole point is that legal matters should be handled legally and NBA matters should be handled by the league. What happens on a player's own time shouldn't be an NBA matter. He wasn't on the court, he wasn't on NBA time, so it really isn't an NBA matter. If Joe Blow the average citizen did what Tyreke did, on their own personal, private time, would their jobs suspend them? Of course not. They'd let the law handle the matter appropriately which is what the NBA should have done here. Your duty to your job ends when you're on your own personal time.
Except that a player's personal conduct affects the team's and the league's bottom line, therefore, the player is expected to maintain a certain level of ... decorum, even when he's not engaging in NBA related activities. That's why there's a personal conduct policy and even certain clauses in contracts that allow a team to void them if the player does something supremely ignorant or reckless. In this case, Reke could have caused serious harm to himself and/or others. Could have ended his career, in which case we would have voided the contract. It has a direct bearing on his standing in the public's eye, and with the league and his team, and the NBA is right to suspend him in this case.
By the way, I wish people would understand that once you become a multi-million dollar asset, different rules apply. Joe Blow the Average Citizen doesn't represent millions of dollars in earnings to his employer, and he doesn't work in the public arena. That's just the way it is.
RookieOfTheDay
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I'd also add that suspensions don't only punish the player, but the whole team and the fans as well. If the league absolutely feels they need to punish a player for some off court trouble, there's ways of doing it without punishing the whole class just because one kid screwed up.
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