The “Bitter Pill” is easily swallowed by NBA athlete

You get beat, you get beat bad and you go home to watch the rest of the post season on T.V. Who are you? Rasheed Wallace, that’s who! So now it’s a new year and you just finished your pre-season; what do you do? You make an ass out of yourself and make the league that you represent look even worse than it already does. You bite the hand that feeds just to make yourself look better, if it makes you sound bitter and stupid.


Let me add now that I am not a fan of basketball at any level of professional, college or even high school level. It’s generally an irrelevant sport and I spend none of my time watching it. However, I am a sports fan and cannot get around reading and watching highlight about basketball. As most people know, recently the NBA has been hit hard by violence on and off of the court and even more recently they have been hit by the “corrupt referee” bug in the worst way. The league is at a low point in the U.S.A not to mention with the rest of the world and is basically only standing in front of the N.H.L at this time.


So, Mr. Wallace speaks out and insinuates that the N.B.A wanted the Cleveland Cavaliers in the play-offs due to the extraordinary play of their top star LeBron James. This is a direct accusation and publicity that the sport doesn’t need. Biting the had that feeds will generally not affect a business as large as this but it does put a bad taste in the fans mouths and for some one like me who doesn’t watch it only ensures that I made the right decision to follow other sports.


On a side note, Mr. Wallace also made reference to pro wrestling which has sort of “come out of the closet” over the last 10 years. He compared his sport to the WWE and related it to the scripted outcomes of pro wrestling. For one, I will admit to wrestling as my “dark secret” and I recall seeing Mr. Wallace in attendance at a recent WWE event (which he referred in the article as WWF.) If I were the WWF; I’d make sure that Mr. Wallace doesn’t get any more complementary front row tickets the next time they are in town.


To me, it seems like the “bitter pill” was an easy one for Mr. Wallace to swallow when he less than gracefully bowed out of the playoffs last year. In my opinion, the NBA needs to take a look at the people they allow to represent them and make harsh decisions on how they will allow their players to bring them down. Far too often in sports the fun is being taken out of the game but in a lot of cases they allow the athletes on their payroll to disgrace and bring their business down.