Hmmm…Minnesota Timberwolves player Michael Olowokandi had to be tasered by police after he refused to leave a club around 3 a.m. Thursday.
The Timberwolves are supposed to play the Indiana Pacers Thursday, and Olowokandi has been suspended from that game. Wouldn’t want to give the Pacers the idea that outrageous behavior is acceptable in the NBA!
Not enough attention has been paid, in my opinion, to the role of the press in instigating outrageous NBA behavior. The most amsuing storyline of the month had to be all of the sports journalists falling all over themselves to hype the return of the Orlando Magic’s Grant Hill.
The stories all focused on the fact that former superstar Hill is starting to play like a superstar again, and of course he’s one of the NBA’s upstanding citizens — no violent outbursts, no drug arrests, etc.
Of course, when Hill was with the Pistons for so many years, many of those same journalists knocked him as being “soft” and lacking the “killer instinct” that a true superstar needed to dominate in the NBA.
Go figure.