The Future of the Man Known as Ron Ron

Ron Artest Future as a Sacramento King


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#31
I raised this issue last week

http://www.kingsfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16823

Ron is not the type of guy to have around when we are losing and rebuilding/retooling the team. I think we should trade him while his value is high. This is assuming a lot though that no one really knows.

Regardless of his actions and comments now, if I were GM I would set up a meeting with him to explain:
a) the general plan and intention for getting back to a winning team
b) that there will be a lot more losses and growing pains before it improves
c) that the Kings want him as a leader through this
d) listen to any concerns he has

Treat him like a leader and all-star. Then make Ron decide if he is in or out. If he's in - No whining, odd comments to the media, mystery injuries, etc. If he's out, we trade him before this becomes a fiasco and his trade value drops.

The worst possible scenario is that Petrie attributes all the losing to a less than healthy squad, decides to be patient, then Ron explodes.
Which is why I voted to have him traded. Rebuild around Kevin and see where that takes us.

I'll pay the price Brick - I just want my team to be winners.
 
#32
Well let me tell you something, the guy took ONE game off with bad knees... So I say give it a rest...Until he does something really stupid and really explodes...
I totally agree. When a professional athlete who doesn't have a history of questionable injuries disappoints their fans because of an injury, so what! Get the f* over it! Artest may indeed become a cancer to the Kings, but don't point to his missing one game and say 'See! He's lost it! Get rid of him now!'

Another thing - someone suggested that we'd have forgiven our previous Kings players for their injuries, but that's not entirely true. Just one example: I remember fans turning on Bobby Jackson when he didn't come back sooner from his stomach injury.
 
#33
I totally agree. When a professional athlete who doesn't have a history of questionable injuries disappoints their fans because of an injury, so what! Get the f* over it! Artest may indeed become a cancer to the Kings, but don't point to his missing one game and say 'See! He's lost it! Get rid of him now!'
Whatever. This is the same guy that everyone was praising how he will play through any kind of injury. If he is seriously injured that he couldn't play than all of our staff should be fired for not pointing out to Muss that Artest had knee problems.

I never liked Artest, but I was willing to give him a chance for the sake of our team being decent. That is obviously not working and I feel no need to give him my full support.

I was reading VF21's thread over at pacersdigest and it is full of "I told you so"s.

I say get rid of him befort the situation gets worse and at least get something of value in return.

Maybe Orlando would want to trade Darko for Artest :)
 
#36
Whatever. This is the same guy that everyone was praising how he will play through any kind of injury. If he is seriously injured that he couldn't play than all of our staff should be fired for not pointing out to Muss that Artest had knee problems.

I never liked Artest, but I was willing to give him a chance for the sake of our team being decent. That is obviously not working and I feel no need to give him my full support.

I was reading VF21's thread over at pacersdigest and it is full of "I told you so"s.

I say get rid of him befort the situation gets worse and at least get something of value in return.

Maybe Orlando would want to trade Darko for Artest :)
Supposedly, no one on staff knew he was having knee problems for a couple of weeks, until 20 minutes before game time last night. The coaches didn't know, the trainer didn't know, his teamates didn't know. That's pretty weird. If they were bothering him for two weeks, you think Ron might have mentioned it to somebody, because, I dunno, maybe somebody might need to discuss treatments or somebody might need to plan around his availability or ?????:rolleyes:
 
#38
Supposedly, no one on staff knew he was having knee problems for a couple of weeks, until 20 minutes before game time last night. The coaches didn't know, the trainer didn't know, his teamates didn't know. That's pretty weird. If they were bothering him for two weeks, you think Ron might have mentioned it to somebody, because, I dunno, maybe somebody might need to discuss treatments or somebody might need to plan around his availability or ?????:rolleyes:
Ron was probably just intimidated by the Wizards offensive machine...he couldn't guard 'em all.

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Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here.
 
#44
Mike and Ron= not on the same page. If Bibby is opting out at the end of this season, shouldnt we be more concerned about trading him now instead of waiting and letting any more erosion of his game and cohesiveness with players like Ron??