NBA Player Reps

You know, I was going to write something about the game last night, but I really have nothing much to add besides the fact that North Carolina played about as well as you can play a game of college basketball in the first half (with the exception of Bobby Frasor, who was gawd awful.) So with that, I’m going to go with something I know I can talk about. I was in the supermarket the other day, as I normally do walking by the magazine rack. I saw Melo was on the cover of The Source, so I decided to check it out. Inside the had an advertisement for the NBA Player reps by team, with their lead and back up or whatever they call it (they don’t distinguish it on this website):
http://www.nbpa.com/player_reps.php
It was then that I realized the players do not stand a chance against ownership if there is a lockout down the road. First, do you see who represents the Clippers. Ricky Davis is their player representative. After thinking about this a little, it’s not the worst selection in the world. If there is a lockout, Ricky could be taking Mark Cuban out to Scores and other New York clubs every night and have him walking into meetings reeking of tequila. A drunk Mark Cuban might put a kink into the owner’s plans. Then I saw the Rocket’s representative. Ron fucking Artest is their player rep with Shane Battier as the back up. I for one would like to know the thought process that the Rockets went through to make that decision. As the biggest Ron Artest defender alive it boggles my mind. So in the event of labor issues, the Rockets chose someone who started the biggest riot in league history, contemplated taking a leave of absence during the season to promote his rap album in which he claimed to smoke weed during halftime, and once thought mushrooms growing in his backyard were “giant snake eggs” over the Duke graduate with a bachelor’s of religion, who uses the word ‘archaic’ easily in sentences and is from Detroit which has a very strong pro-union background. Just want to make sure I have that right. What was the key issue? Ron Ron’s employment application to Circuit City his rookie year in Chicago so he could get the employee discount? You know what, I’m rooting for a lockout just to hear the stories that come from Ricky Davis, Ron Ron and Captain Stephen Jackson after 12 hours of non stop negotiating. And I for damn sure hoping someone tries to go Charles Oakley during the last lockout on Artest or Jackson because having the players association dissolve after a 50 person brawl at the Four Seasons. I have no idea how I would react to that. Nothing will top that. I might just say, you know what, the NBA is not topping that.

And just to redeem Ron Ron.
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