Posted on 02/07/2007 9:12:18 AM PST by Kimmers
Indianapolis - Metro police are investigating a bar fight involving two members of the Indiana Pacers at a west side nightclub.
According to police reports, Jamaal Tinsley and Marquis Daniels allegedly punched a manager of the Eight Second Saloon early Tuesday morning. Police say Pacers guard Keith McLeod was inside the Tremors nightclub but was not involved.
Police say the fight started between a manager and an individual suspected of stealing coats from a coat check area. According to police reports, Tinsley and Daniels punched the manager and Daniels threatened to kill him.
The bar manager appears to have suffered a broken jaw and a severed ear lobe, according to police reports. Police say Tinsley may have suffered a cut to the forehead. A cousin of Pacers guard Keith McLeod lost a tooth.
Six off-duty police officers were working in security in the parking lot at the time of the fight. By the time they got inside the bar, Tinsley and Daniels were gone.
No charges have been filed and no players were arrested. Detectives are working the case.
Indiana Pacers CEO and President Donnie Walsh issued the following statement: "We are aware of reports of an incident Monday night after the Golden State game allegedly involving members of the Indiana Pacers. At this time, the incident is under police investigation and until the investigation is completed, we have no further comment."
The Pacers have a home game tonight against Seattle. The team were scheduled to hold a shoot-around at Conseco Fieldhouse at 10:45.
Are we seeing this kind of behavior throughout the NBA or is this a problem with the Pacers?
It's the Pacers. They're giving the NBA a bad name all by themselves.
I believe the answer is "a"
How appropriate! I've only got one word for that: DUCK!
LOL, I did not catch that...poor choice of words on the authors part....
It seem pretty rampant in the NBA, although the Spurs and maybe a couple of other teams do seem to have good citizen persona.
ROFLMAO
I suspect the arrest rate for the NFL is much higher than that of the NBA. I blame the NBA for their efforts to ruin the college basketball and the declining quality of the product on the court, but I think the gangster level is rather overemphasized compared to the other big pro sports.
The Pacers are what the Portland Trailblazers were a few years back.
I agree: the Pacers seem to be the Cincy Bengals or Oakland Raiders of the NBA, and they need to start evaluating people for class and character as well as ball skillz!
I thought it was a strip club but it appears to be a regular night club.
http://www.tremorsnightclub.com/index-old.htm
If my kid has to have a zero tolerance to go to school then what is wrong with having the same thing with these thugs? Sit them down and explain that their checks will be made out at the end of the season, and if they want them they have to earn them, not by how they play but how they represent the team.
Once they figure out that the bling only gets bought if they act like decent human beings then maybe that will make them understand the great life and luck they really have.
Looks to me like the NBA needs to tighten up it's standards. If they won't, the teams need to make a stand and refuse to employ these types of individuals... run them out.
I mean, look at these guys, would you hire them to flip burgers? Hell no, I wouldn't let them past security. They look and act like typical urban thugs. The NBA should crack down on this "gangsta" crap and banish everything from the look and dress to the behavior. Clean up this mess already, it's becoming an even bigger joke day by day.
David Stern needs to go. He has let the league deteriorate from its glory days of the 1980s.
If it wasn't for the NBA, this country would have the tallest janitors in the world.
They got their diaper on!
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