Lew Crippen
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Come on Seth--you don´t have to be that much of an apologist. Artest is a grown man, making grown man money. If you think that he should be viewed as an underage kid, then he should not be playing with the grownups.
Regardless of your slightly revisionist history (he was not without some considerable fault last year, for example), Artest is regularaly involved in too many physical, verbal and overall emotional loss of control to say everyting´s now OK and it is time to just move on.
As for the fight--at the end of the day players that respond to fans are in the wrong--and everyone of them know it. This gets explained over and over to the players before the start of each season (the same in the MLB). They all know that they can´t go into the stands--or even physically assult fans that are no longer in the stands.
Personally I agree with Charles Barkley´s comment before one of the games where he said that Artest needed to get some professional help. He is not the first (and likely won´t be the last) player to be extremely talented, but mentally troubled.
Here is hoping that he will get the help he needs.
Regardless of your slightly revisionist history (he was not without some considerable fault last year, for example), Artest is regularaly involved in too many physical, verbal and overall emotional loss of control to say everyting´s now OK and it is time to just move on.
As for the fight--at the end of the day players that respond to fans are in the wrong--and everyone of them know it. This gets explained over and over to the players before the start of each season (the same in the MLB). They all know that they can´t go into the stands--or even physically assult fans that are no longer in the stands.
Personally I agree with Charles Barkley´s comment before one of the games where he said that Artest needed to get some professional help. He is not the first (and likely won´t be the last) player to be extremely talented, but mentally troubled.
Here is hoping that he will get the help he needs.