Empty parking spaces at a typically bustling Galleria Mall offer incontestable evidence that the holidays are over. For several weeks, goodwill and peace on earth have been exalted to the highest, however, wouldn't a continued refrain from dishing the dirt be akin to balking social tradition?
Hardly a week into January, here we go again with scandal dripping from the neck of another rich and reckless black athlete like a thick gold chain. This time it’s the NBA’s Gilbert Arenas who could forfeit his hefty $111 million contract over allegedly pulling an unloaded pistol on a Washington Wizards teammate last December. His actions, presumably designed to intimidate, didn't include making good on the $60,000 gambling debt in dispute, unfortunately. Before the first month's first week ended, the league's big cheese deep fried an embroiled in hot grease Arenas, suspending him indefinitely without pay. D.C. authorities have yet to file formal charges.
Likely under duress from rumors hitching his baby mama to Shaq Daddy's monsterous wagon and a series of sub-par performances, it’s a wonder Gilbert didn’t get all ghetto gangster sooner. Ignorance and arrogance make an odd but common couple and talent is a terrible thing to waste especially when it affords a black man inflated earning power too miniscule to buy a moral compass. Trust, had this been an ordinary Negro in the workplace, the boys in blue would've been swiftly dispatched to bounce brothaman out.
For the latest, read the NY Post: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/grand_jury_to_look_into_arenas_crittenton_k5cOCO0Au3mnKoJmnLtLnK
if not mistaken, i think the nba kept shaq out of a game so he could avoid coming to blows with arenas. have you heard they're talking suspension for the rest of the season? that's bull - just cuz he's a black man, they gotta make him an example.
ReplyDeleteYes, I've heard suspension mentioned for Arenas. Whether loaded or not, guns are violent weapons that are universally unacceptable in the typical workplace. Sorry to rain on your parade, anonymous commenter, but if the investigation reveals that Arenas violated NBA policy or D.C.'s gun laws, he deserves appropriate punishment. Like Al Sharpton, I'm sick and tired of the above the law attitude pro athletes project because balling ability and stacks of cash do not warrant entitlement to unequal treatment.
ReplyDeleteWith each game he misses, Arenas, who turned 28 on Wednesday, will lose about $147,200 of the $16.2 million he will earn this season in the second of a six-year, $111 million contract. As of Wednesday he had $9,429,505.41 remaining for this season.
ReplyDeleteAll actions have consequences so I hope Gilly boy hasn't been big balling to the extent that the suspension puts him in an Antoine Walker hole. Walker is broker than the 10 commandments according to a Black Voices blog, having pissed away $110 million in NBA career earnings.
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