Today Show: Delusional Artest Fails to Apologize, Says "It's Time to Move On"

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[MEG33]

http://home.datawest.net/esn-recovery/artcls/socio.htm

http://www.psychopath-research.com/whatis_psycho_1.html

[Publius6961]

BUMP!

[MEG33]

Google is grand!

[LYSandra]

I've wondered for a long time why the NBA allows these jerks to have goofy hair-jewelery and tons of tatoos when they represent the NBA and like it or not are role models to millions of kids-seems like back in the day the players all looked so all American and were in suits if not playing but now they all look and act like they are ready for gang war. "You can take the kid out of the inner city but.....

[governsleastgovernsbest]

No lawyer - he was flying solo. I really wonder who if anyone is advising this guy. He seems totally out of control.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Artest then stated that NBA Commissioner "David Stern has been good to me but I don't think the number of games of the suspension [73 - the remainder of the season] is fair."

He should be glad I'm not in charge. It would have been fun to banish him from the game FOREVER...

[uncitizen]

i finally got a look at the Today show interview. Artest was wearing a tee shirt and cap both promoting his new music. Then he help up the CD and smiled telling the date the CD is gonna be available.

listening to him, he didn't answer questions directly. Someone definitely fed him "talking points" and he just kept repeating those. He seemed to be on drugs. Wonder if steroids can do that to a person?

[odoso]

Since when is TRUTH bigotry?

I guess that makes you somewhat of a liberal, doesn't it.

[Petronski]

Their race is irrelevant unless you have issues with it. "Liberal" has nothing to do with it.

[Cbest24763]

I mean come on. David Stern is a good person. He handed out his suspensions and they were adequate enough. David Stern is not GOD. He cant control the actions of the NBA players. Ron Artest is his own man, he made the mistake and ran into the crowd. Yes it was wrong for him to do so but he is human. You cannot make such bold and harsh statements just because a person lost his temper after someone threw BEER on him. How about you have 5 million dollars in your hand and then have someone tell you that you cant keep it because of a human reaction. The penalty is the harshest in the history of sports.

[Pharmboy]

My comment about Stern doesn't just relate to this latest incident...he has presided over the league as it has adopted the gangsta style. The Artest incident was the culmination of his too liberal policies; he should have taken control of the league and stopped the degradation before it came to this.

Just my opinion.

[itisafreecountry]

The brawl occurred in Auburn Hills, Michigan, which is a
predominantly white community.

The brawl did not occur in Detroit.

The gang mentality has invaded Auburn Hills, Michigan.

Auburn Hills, Michigan, a predominantly white community, is
New Fallulah.

[JoeV1]

I believe that this sort of behavior in all professional sport would stop IMMEDIATELY if the culprits were simply banned from the sport permanently. It would take a real moron to sacrifice a multi million dollar per year job just to preserve a misguided machismo image he may have of himself.

In any case I think 2 or maybe 3 permanent bans would send the message clearly enough.

[itisafreecountry]

The brawl occurred in Auburn Hills, Michigan, which is a
predominantly white community.

The brawl did not occur in Detroit.

The gang mentality has invaded Auburn Hills, Michigan.

Auburn Hills, Michigan, a predominantly white community, is
New Fallulah.

[itisafreecountry]

The brawl occurred in Auburn Hills, Michigan, which is a
predominantly white community.

The brawl did not occur in Detroit.

The gang mentality has invaded Auburn Hills, Michigan.

Auburn Hills, Michigan, a predominantly white community, is
New Fallulah.