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**BBert** · 03-14-2008, 11:21 AM

Artest lounging on the scorer's table...a fan underhand tossing a beer for a perfect strike...Artest climbing into the stands and pummeling the wrong fan...one of the great moments of NBA theater I've ever witnessed.

Jayps15 · 03-14-2008, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by hasoos

That is interesting. If you think about it, he went bezerk on a fan(A Detroit fan at that.). Has anything really happened since? The only thing I was aware of was chemistry problems in Indiana. Anybody know of anything else?

On the court he's had a few minor suspensions and some pretty rough fouls... off the court he's gotten in a good amount of trouble, domestic abuse being the big one (charges of battery, false imprisonment and dissuading a witness from reporting a crime stemming from the same incident were dropped on his plea conditions). There were at least 2 other incidents when police came to his house for domestic abuse, but no charges. Animal Services had to come and seize his dog after a few weeks of complaints from his neighbors about the dog looking starved.

He also had that whole wanting to retire to focus on his recording company thing...

I love his defense, and he's an underrated offensive option... but I don't want the crazy that comes along with it.

MrJayremmie · 03-14-2008, 11:25 AM

i'm definitely not an Artest fan. I'm a fan of his defense and that is it. I don't like his offensive game, specially with our team. And don't like him off the court or in the locker room.

I wouldn't be against us getting him, depending on what we gave up, but meh...

Anyway, Ellis is seriously awesome. He can play point, and he is seriously very very good. I would love to have a player like that next to Roy in the backcourt. He is Allen Iverson, except without the attitude, and like 12 years younger.

edit, about Artest, i know he has asked to be traded from Indiana and from Sacremento. Its quite unrealistic to expect ot get him though. Deng, Artest, Magettee, Childress, Iguodala, Marion, Smith are all people that we throw out there. If we do get a PG, i highly doubt we will have the ability to make any more trades, or the desire, imo. I love our team as is, if we can get that PG, and get Rudy and Oden next year, with our team being a year older, i would love it. I'm definitely not against trading outlaw though. I love his scoring spark off the bench, but he isn't more than a bench player. His tunnel vision when he touches the ball gets on my nerves though, and really kills our offense. Even if someone else is hot, if he touches it, its one dribble, jump and shoot.

**crandc** · 03-15-2008, 09:49 AM

Someone belated report from Sacramento:

I called to ask what time they open. They said 6. I got there a few minutes before 6 to discover they actually opened at 5:30 and I missed most of Oden's practice!!!

Talked to Mike & Mike before the game. I said I had a seat by the Kings bench and Rice said to yell at Artest and make him mad. Nice the way he's willing to sacrifice a friend! In fact I ended up having to get my seat moved when a woman sat in the next seat wearing about 5 gallons of perfume, which makes me severely and violently ill. (Folks, when going out in public, please be considerate of others, OK? At least the Kings were cooperative about moving me.) So no chance to yell at Artest. They also said Oden loved the brownies I sent him. Also the road trip was freezing.

Game: clearly a tired team with dead legs. They could have survived either the poor shooting or the turnovers, but not both. Hasoos is right, end of a long road trip in 3 time zones with an OT game, 2 sets of back to backs, and a delay at the airport is generally not pretty. Aldridge was fine. Roy was OK but too many TOs. Outlaw did not shoot especially well but at least scored 13. Joel was his usual solid self. Everyone else basically was lousy to awful. How on earth did Frye hit a half court shot, but miss everything else?

There were a few momments, Frye's half court, Outlaw's dunk and block, LMA's shooting, Roy's moves. Martell had a couple of nice shots but once again missed 2 of 3 free throws when fouled on a 3-pointer.

I will say they at least played hard and kept their heads up. The Kings were coming off an inspiring win at the Lakers, had 2 days off. They had all the advantages. It would have taken a great effort to win and the energy was not there.

Was that ZachAddy sitting courtside in Brandon Roy jersey and Blazers cap? Or was that HispanicCausingPanic? I was just behind.

A man in front of me was cheering for the Blazers so I asked if he was a Blazer fan. It turns out he is a Laker fan up from LA who was mad that the Kings beat the Lakers on their court, so was rooting for the Blazers. THAT IS OBSCENE!!! We do not want the cheers of Laker fans. He also said the Lakers "would" win the championship, which I discount, because Laker fans say that every year.