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Not to bring up race and drugs in one post, but when Brad Miller gets suspended for his his third weed offense and no one really cares, it's time we ask those tough questions again. Namely, white dude with an affinity for guns and hunting suffers the perils of addiction in silence, and gets caught a third time. Now, what about the Josh Howard incident, where dude simply acknowledged that he likes to puff on occasion.
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I could care less about how Miller got treated….but point is that Howard should not have been treated like a pariah….or perhaps he should just join NORML and make a movement out of it.
by Truth About It Dot Net on Jul 11, 2008 2:48 PM EDT reply actions
Different sport, different drug, but Matt Jones is getting pilloried for his cocaine arrest, for what it’s worth: http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=432958
by jryan.tsn on Jul 11, 2008 3:48 PM EDT reply actions
Miller’s drug use can be forgiven because Josh Howard doesn’t have Bad Brad’s “I’m the only white guy in my group of friends” excuse.
by L'etat, c'est moi on Jul 11, 2008 9:57 PM EDT reply actions
It’s not the same, Shoals, it just isn’t.
Howard was pilloried because he copped to it, sans failed drug test, on the day of a playoff game. America wants repentance, and Howard wasn’t offering any.
Miller, stuck in the silence of the offseason with his anonymous team years removed from a playoff berth, gets suspended for a drug that pundits have to guess at (not a tough guess, but a guess), and immediately (and silently, not on Michael Irvin’s radio show that can offer content to ESPN and ESPN News for free) sends out an apology that he didn’t write.
If, say, Wally Szczerbiak copped to it on the afternoon of a Cavs playoff game with the Wizards, I think the reaction would be the same. I believe it would also be the same if someone like Drew Gooden was suspended for five games last week.
It speaks more to the Puritanical guilt we’re all supposed to have lording over us at every conceivable turn. Honesty isn’t what we’re after. Apologies are.
by KDonhoops on Jul 12, 2008 1:38 AM EDT reply actions
Damn, TSN isn’t a fan of graf breaks. Ah well, sorry for the tough read.
by KDonhoops on Jul 12, 2008 1:41 AM EDT reply actions
Yeah, sorry about the graf glitch. It’s one of several lingering bugs we’re trying to work out of this thing.
by cmottram on Jul 12, 2008 10:19 AM EDT reply actions
JHo looks baked constantly, he probably tokes before games just to take the edge off. Both are equally non-stories. That young rich pro-athletes like to smoke weed should not come as a huge shock to anyone, and more importantly, does anyone really care?
by tigermonkey on Jul 14, 2008 1:53 AM EDT reply actions
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