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By far the most popular among NBA players is DUI and wife-beating. Assault is probably #3.
Special shout out to Anthony Mason of the Knicks who was charged with 'inciting a riot.' IIRC Mason also was dinged for having sex with a fourteen-year old girl.
Let's build more tax-funded stadiums for these heroes!
While I'm one of the first to condemn the sports stupidity that often grips this country (especially stupid at the lower levels)....I'm not convinced the NBA has any bigger problem than most professions with lots of young men in them.
Heck, I work in a nerdy brainiac profession and I know a couple guys that got DUI's in their 20's.
Frankly, I'd bet their incidence of crime etc. is lower than that a typical group of roofers, road crew workers etc.
A whole bunch of those are for a little bit of weed and other misdemeanors and note they are charges, not convictions.
With roughly 360 NBA players in any year...round it off to 400 for guys with partial years....and the list goes back decades that's something in excess of 10,000 player years.
I looked up DUI stats and it's around 1 in 165 but would be higher for young men so if you use 1 in 100 that would be over 100 NBAers you'd expect to have DUI's over the last few decades.
Also based upon 10k exposures you'd expect around 6+ murders using the black murder rate watered down a bit.
I can only think of one NBAer that murdered someone and that's after they left the league (the wizard that got in a gun showdown with arenas) and then the accidental (but reckless) killing of the chauffer guy but that's not murder.
While I'm one of the first to condemn the sports stupidity that often grips this country (especially stupid at the lower levels)....I'm not convinced the NBA has any bigger problem than most professions with lots of young men in them.
Heck, I work in a nerdy brainiac profession and I know a couple guys that got DUI's in their 20's.
Frankly, I'd bet their incidence of crime etc. is lower than that a typical group of roofers, road crew workers etc.
A whole bunch of those are for a little bit of weed and other misdemeanors and note they are charges, not convictions.
With roughly 360 NBA players in any year...round it off to 400 for guys with partial years....and the list goes back decades that's something in excess of 10,000 player years.
I looked up DUI stats and it's around 1 in 165 but would be higher for young men so if you use 1 in 100 that would be over 100 NBAers you'd expect to have DUI's over the last few decades.
Also based upon 10k exposures you'd expect around 6+ murders using the black murder rate watered down a bit.
I can only think of one NBAer that murdered someone and that's after they left the league (the wizard that got in a gun showdown with arenas) and then the accidental (but reckless) killing of the chauffer guy but that's not murder.
Spot on. Lots of people are dumb when they're young and get in to trouble, especially with things like drugs and alcohol. The difference is most people are not in the public eye.
Of course some the crimes are inexcusable, but show me a profession that doesn't have a single bad person working within it. Doesn't condemn the entire profession.
It's gonna happen with young people earning lots of money at an early age. And given that, the rate of trouble is probably less in professional sports than it is in Hollywood or your run-of-the-mill trust-fund babies.
It's gonna happen with young people earning lots of money at an early age. And given that, the rate of trouble is probably less in professional sports than it is in Hollywood or your run-of-the-mill trust-fund babies.
Yeah, I just look at my little podunk highschool in a small midwestern town.
I personally know of 2 kids from that school near my age that have committed murder. One during a home invasion and the other during a drug hit.
So, at most that's maybe 800 or so kids nearish to my age and we have had (at least) 2 murders. I know of several others that have had DUI's, possession, assault and one rape I recall....and I moved out of there long ago so I don't even hear it all.
This wasn't the hood either....just a typical small town.
By far the most popular among NBA players is DUI and wife-beating. Assault is probably #3.
Special shout out to Anthony Mason of the Knicks who was charged with 'inciting a riot.' IIRC Mason also was dinged for having sex with a fourteen-year old girl.
Let's build more tax-funded stadiums for these heroes!
this why I thought the whole donald sterling deal was funny. Hes a racist idiot, ok but lets be honest some of the nba players bashing him have a record and some a violent record. A guy is racist and the whole country wants to lynch him, yet we have violent punk thugs in the nba and they are our hero's? lol
By far the most popular among NBA players is DUI and wife-beating. Assault is probably #3.
Special shout out to Anthony Mason of the Knicks who was charged with 'inciting a riot.' IIRC Mason also was dinged for having sex with a fourteen-year old girl.
Let's build more tax-funded stadiums for these heroes!
This is a popular meme from Right wingers, they critisize athletes (and entertainers) for two reasons:
1. They think it shows them to be fair and not in the tank for all rich people.
2. They assume most athletes and entertainers vote Democrat so they hate them for that.
This is a popular meme from Right wingers, they critisize athletes (and entertainers) for two reasons:
1. They think it shows them to be fair and not in the tank for all rich people.
2. They assume most athletes and entertainers vote Democrat so they hate them for that.
this is ridiculous.
it more likely shows the hypocrisy of how the rich left portrays themselves as "FOR the common man" all the while raking in loads of cash FROM the common man.
kinda like how michael moore spends a whole crap load of time telling all of us every day business owners and tax payers how we should be happy to pay more, and how there should be a limit on what CEOs can make yet turns around and sues the Weinsteins to the tune of 2.7 million because he felt he didnt make enough money off his ridiculous movie. yup its the right wingers who are the ones knocking rich people in hollywood and sports.
so ridiculous.
back to basketball.
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