[JustAnotherOkie]

I quit watching the NBA many year's ago. There is no such thing as a 'Team' any more. That was personnified during the Olympics.

[asgardshill]

Artest: The NBA equivalent of a hockey goon.

Let him devote more time to his rap career. ALL of his time.

[conservativeinferno]

the nba is full of thugs. artest is an amateur rapper. rap breeds violence. look at his behavior last night. any questions?

[Bullish]

There are many players in the NBA and other sports who are just as bad as Artest.

It's the ghetto culture of gangs and hoodlums that they come out of that is at the heart of the problem.

[sam_whiskey]

Yeah, lets get rid of Artest. But let's not lay a finger on the rapist out in LA; let's make sure the Golden State Strangler still gets to finish his career off in Minnesota---but lets make an example out of Ron Artest--for retaliating when a fan pegged him with a beer--after he'd already been battered by Ben Wallace.

[sam_whiskey]

I'm not surprised SI has taken this position. They've never passed up the chance to engage in a sports-related witchhunt before. It's the kind of thing that tides them over between stories about lesbian lovers who can't get joint memberships at their country clubs or gay high school QBs who were "brave" enough to come out to their teammates. ESCPECIALLY if the sports figure is from Indiana. I'm sure Rick Reilly and the rest still pleasure themselves on a nightly basis because Bob Knight was fired. SI is trash.

[JesseHousman]

http://www.clickondetroit.com/video/3935750/detail.html

[Bernard]

David Stern and the NBA are trying very hard right now to deal with this. Of course, this is the same David Stern and NBA that payed patti-cake with Spreewell a few years ago when he strangled his coach during practice.

At least the event that made them sit up and pay attention did not result in serious injuries.