What happened in the Pacers vs. Pistons game on Friday night was one of the most bizarre, crazy, and disturbing incidents of recent memory in sports, everyone is to blame and everyone is culpable, most notably Ron Artest.
Ron Artest is probably the craziest person in sports today. Artest is not Ricky Williams crazy, but more Mike Tyson crazy. He turned a routine shoving match in the NBA into the Vibe Awards. I don’t think it is that out of the question that before Artest returns to playing in the NBA that we could see him fight in Wrestlemania, tattoo his face, and begin to worship Allah.
Everyone has that one friend that they know isn’t right. They have a screw loose that makes them do things that normal people just don’t do. These things aren’t a result of drinking or drug use, which leads normal people to do crazy things, but they are a result of that person being crazy. We hang out with these people in high school or college just for the reason that we wanted to see what they would do next and also to get a basic understanding of how crazy minds work. These people rarely become our best friends or people that we keep in touch with. We usually reach a breaking point with these crazy people because hanging out with them is just too much work. They are always starting fights, jumping out of moving cars, and yelling at bartenders and bouncers. We will stop hanging out with these people for a little while to see if they will stop being so crazy, but they never stop being crazy. We end up seeing these people after a while where they tell us stories like, “A guy bet me $50 that I couldn’t live in a tent in my backyard for a week, easiest $50 I’ve ever made!” True Story. That’s where we reach a point where we don’t want to ask “why?” anymore, we just shake our head go on with our way.
Up until Friday night, fans and the league watched Artest, not for his talent, but because we all wanted to see what he would do next. The initial foul by Artest on Ben Wallace just seemed like a normal Ron Artest moment, a hard foul fueled by frustration. What happened in the aftermath of this foul could be the breaking point for the NBA and their relationship with Ron Artest because hanging around him has just become too much work. They have already suspended him and fined him time and time again to see if he'll stop being crazy, but crazy people never stop being crazy. Now the NBA doesn’t want to ask Artest “why” he ran into the crowd and started a mini-riot, they would rather just shake their head and go on their way.
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