First let me say that I rarely post anything related to basketball on this blog. This is mostly because it’s boring. I think the biggest problem with basketball is that it’s too easy to get points. Everybody seems to just run back and forth scoring at will. Maybe they should raise the net a few feet – or lower it and add a goalie. I heard some commentator somewhere (I just can’t remember who or where – sorry) suggest they should have a height cap in basketball, so each team gets a total number of height inches. If you want a really tall guy, you have to make up for it with some short guys….
All that said, this post isn’t really about basketball. I just felt compelled to comment about the two players who got suspended for messing about with their guns in the locker room. Apparently there was a little gambling dispute that got out of hand. These guys should know better. If they kept their sidearms safely stowed in their locker, perhaps the league would have overlooked that little rule they have about toting guns on league property. I recommend arm wrestling for settling gambling disputes. A sore shoulder beats getting your brains blown out any day.
Now that the league commissioner has pointed out that guns in the workplace will not be tolerated, I’m sure the problem has been straightened out. To all you young players out there, just leave your guns at home.
27th Street 
If I’m absolutely honest, I couldn’t give a toss if the basket ball players had blown each other away. No loss there then.
The vid on the other hand is class!!!!
Johnny Cash rocked!!!! (and always will)
Like your idea about inches in a team mind…it would make it a bit more entertaining then!!!
Well, if only the basketball players and major sports figures would put in some hard work at ethics and doing the right thing…tthey might not need to use guns as a show of safety. The players in so many sports have been living and acting like criminals tehey’ve lost all good sense. We have druggies as baseball players all juiced up, dog fighting, women beating. The fans need to call bullshit.
The players have such criminal lifestyle they are super paranoid and worried about thir safety as justifying themselves carrying weapons. The asshole corporations who own these players and teams should spend money on tight security where the ball players enter the feilds and arenas…if needed, hold their guns. Next: the team owners should demand ethically thoughtful players who do the right thing with group therapy to deal with fame, power, ethics and narcissism.
I am a fan of basketball but unfortunately most fans don’t have the decency to boycott these players and teams. People continue to pay huge amounts of money for tickets to companies who do not monitor their employees. Fuck em.
Barbara, you saw right through my sneaky excuse to post some vintage Johnny.
It’s the perfect excuse to play a little Johnny Cash though, isn’t it? SO perhaps some good did come out of that locker room incident.