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I have some terribly strong feelings about Brad Miller's issues with weed. Actually, they're more strong feelings about how uninterested people seems in—gasp—a white NBA player who apparently burns a ton of bud.
Obviously, I know I'm an idiot for putting myself in this situation. Sometimes things have to get really bad before I fix things in my life, and that's (how) it's been my whole life.He's also going to enter therapy, in part to sort out some family stuff. There's also a sickening softball where Amick says, more or less, "Josh Howard says he doesn't want to change, but you do." And Miller, who is now obligated by the league to at least give this impression, says he's calmed down a lot anyway, was once much worse, and having a kid has certainly made him reassess his intake.
All the stress gets to you, and this is one way to take my mind off of everything. I'll look for something different. I don't like sleeping pills - that's my biggest problem. Whether it's some sort of vitamin or something that can help as well. I want to talk to [the doctors] and find some help.
I have normal Brad and the when-I-get-on-that-court Brad. It's a battle all the time to get that balance between the two. People meet me, and they're like, 'Man, you're not laid back.' Well that's because you never met me off the court.
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White guys are more fun to blog about when they do steroids.
by L'etat, c'est moi on Jul 18, 2008 8:21 PM EDT reply actions
Ah, the race card comes out yet again, what a shock. Hey writer, doesn’t almost everybody in the league (white or black) at the very least experiment with the hippie lettuce? I think another explanation could be that we’re just so de-sensitized to NBA players getting caught with the tree that it’s no longer a surprise, so why should anybody be outraged, whether the offender is white or black?
I would also caution Mr. Shoals to check his brother and sister writers out there because they certainly didn’t jump on this story. Hell, I’m a huge Kings fan and I didn’t hear anything about it until the one and only story broke on it here at TSN.
In Sacramento, we care and I for one am outraged, but at least it explains his lethargy on the court. I have absolutely zero tolerance for a $50,000,000 basketball player who claims that his friend “Mary Jane” helps him temporarily escape from his family problems. The Sacramento Bee is a joke of a paper, and usually is a lot tougher on the Kings because they pretty much don’t want the Kings here. Frankly, I’m surprised they went “softball” on this.
Personally, I’d love for the Maloofs to try to get back some of the money he’s been paid, because he damn sure hasn’t earned it!
by fan82 on Jul 18, 2008 9:42 PM EDT reply actions
Someone was selling weed to the Other Man instead of selling it to the Brother Man.
by L'etat, c'est moi on Jul 19, 2008 3:27 PM EDT reply actions
I don’t think an interview in the Sacbee King’s blog qualifies as “the media” giving Brad a chance to explain. I also know as a Clipper fan from back in the day that there were quite a few sympathetic pieces from major publications written about Odom’s struggles with addiction. While I don’t deny that black players are often times given the “thug” label (fairly and unfairly), I think this is a situation where the level of interest is more dictated by the severity of the crime than anything else. I mean who was Chris Andersen before the drug story broke?
by tigermonkey on Jul 20, 2008 2:18 PM EDT reply actions
“I mean who was Chris Andersen before the drug story broke?” He was this guy: http://youtube.com/watch?v=BieL_YOzQkI
by littmann.tsn on Jul 20, 2008 5:22 PM EDT reply actions
If it makes you feel any better, I will be making Brad Miller bong jokes for years.
by jrb973 on Jul 21, 2008 9:51 AM EDT reply actions
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