Official Warriors Off Season Thread

[paul is on tilt]

Originally Posted by daprescription

Not to mention that Mullin gave Kosta a contract that pays him more than Belinelli. He's a 2nd round pick getting paid 1st round money

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How much is Kosta getting paid?

 

[japanair21]

Just under 2 million in 08/09, and just over 2 million in 09/10

http://www.shamsports.com/content/pages/data/salaries/warriors.jsp

 

[nothingtol0se]

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2007-08	Golden State Warriors	NBA	$1,800,000
Career	(may be incomplete)		$1,800,000

[th=""]Season[/th] [th=""]Team[/th] [th=""]Lg[/th] [th=""]Salary[/th]

 

[japanair21]

posted by Sham at 3:21 PM 3 Comments
Thursday, 1 May 2008
Top 24 NBA Sex Scandals Of The Last 15 Years
In case you missed it, a story "broke" (if that's the right way to phrase something that's been around, but underacknowledged, since about199 NBA legend Karl Malone knocked up a 13 year old girl when he was a college player. Why this has gone past us so quietly is a mystery, but it does seem tobe just one more in a long list of recent NBA sex scandals. And so here is that list.

Stories listed in no particular order.



LIST OF NBA PLAYERS (and owners) IN RAPE/WEIRD NAUGHTY SEX STUFF SCANDALS:


1 - Karl Malone: See above.

2 - Bryant Matthews: Former Raptor (for about a week) only got out of jail earlier this year for a rape charge in which he walked in on his friend and hisfriend's girlfriend having sex in a hotel room, and stuck his fingers in her lovely lady lump. His in-court defense was " thought she was cool withit". Apparently she wasn't. Served nine months.

3 - DeShawn Stevenson: Had consensual sex with a 14 year old when he was 20, which isn't rape in the she-didn't-want-it sense, but which is clearlystatutory. Pleaded no contest to sex with a minor. Was sentenced to 2 years probation and 100 hours of community service, which somewhat sadistically wasserved at a "Boys And Girls" club.

4 - Ruben Patterson: Sentenced to a year in jail (all but 15 days of which were suspended) after pleading no contest to an attempted rape charge on his nanny.Allegedly, she came in to find Patterson standing naked, masturbating. He then forced her to gigoogidy his gerschmoigin, and ejaculated within seconds. Onlythen did he let her leave. Allegedly. Also fined $100,000 by the Blazers, which seemed a little ironic since they'd just given him $35 million, even withthis charge hanging over him. Additionally received 2 years probation, a $5,000 fine and had to pay the nanny.

5 - Chris Webber and Juwan Howard: Accused of sexual assault. Jury decided not to indict. Howard later sued the accuser, won, and donated his $100,000settlement to a rape crisis centre.

6 - Ron Mercer, Antoine Walker and Chauncey Billups: Details on this are sparse, but apparently they were sued for rape. Why would you sue for rape? Whywouldn't you press charges? I don't get it. Either way, no charges were brought, and an out-of-court settlement was reached. (The incident took placeat Walker's home, where - allegedly - he walked in on the act, and declined his housemate Michael Irvin's invitation to dive right in there. Strangetimes.)

7 - Andray Blatche: Arrested and charged with solicitation. Was sentenced to attend a day's seminar on the dangers of prostitution, which seems like nopunishment whatsoever.

8 - Kwame Brown: Accused of sexual assault after a playoff game. No charges brought due to a lack of evidence. The woman in question admitted to a consensualencounter, and then apparently it got less consensual. But that doesn't explain why she then hung around for hours afterwards.

9 - Kobe Bryant: Yeah, you know this story. Case dropped in criminal court, settlement reached in civil court.

10 - Jahidi White: Investigated for sexual assault. Details extremely absent. No charges. (Rumour has it that it involved a nude Oriental lady and a fat whitechick. Allegedly. And lots of crying.)

11 - Julius Hodge: Accused of sexual assault on a Denver woman. The woman claimed that, after driving her back to her house after being at a club, Hodge forcedher onto the bed and tried to rape her. No charges were brought due to lack of evidence. The woman was then jailed for violating her concurrent probation bybeing out that late.

12 - Michael Olowokandi: Sued for rape by a woman who claims that the encounter led to the less-than-immaculate conception. Can't seem to find out whatbecame of this.

13 - Mo Peterson, Cliff Robinson, Juwan Howard again: All sued at some point for allegedly deliberating infecting someone with herpes. In Juwan's case, ithappened twice. The suit against Robinson was for an enormous $20 million, and tests showed that he did (does?) indeed have it. (The herpes, not the $20million.)

14 - Sam Cassell: Accused of rape way back in 1996. No charges brought.

15 - Elden Campbell: Sued for an apparent date rape, in which he allegedly drugged someone before raping them. I don't know what became of this, because itwas back in 1997, and my only source of research is the internet. And the internet wasn't much back in 1997. But obviously not much came of it, or else wewould have known about it. Date rape is a pretty bloody serious allegation, after all.

16 - Latrell Sprewell: Investigated for sexual assault after apparently choking a woman he was having consensual sex with on his boat. Don't know whatbecame of this, which implies that it was probably nothing. (But he did later have the boat repossessed.)

17 - Donald Sterling: Admitted to paying a woman for sex for a numbers of years. The story offered up some awesome quotes.

18 - George Shinn: Accused of a kidnapping-for-sex charge, after allegedly luring a woman whom he knew was addicted to prescription drugs to his home, andshagging her. Admitted to having sex with her, but said it was consensual. No criminal charges were brought, and acquitted in civil court.

19 - Bobby Simmons: Arrested for misdemeanour fourth degree assault after allegedly fondling the breasts of a woman who got into his car in the early hours ofthe morning, and then punching her in the face. Charges not brought due to lack of evidence.

20 - Bernard Robinson Jr: Arrested and charged with assault and battery on a female student after touching her up in a stairwell. Sentenced to a year'sprobation which included such terms as a written letter of apology, never talking to the girl again, being fined $850, complete abstention from drugs analcohol, and being forced to partcipiate in sex offender "screening" to see if he had serial sex offender tendencies. Which must have been souldestroying.

21 - Justin Williams: Accused of rape. Later dropped. It never became official, but his lawyer alluded to the fact that he did nail the chick while on camera,which would have been rather conclusive in a court of law as to the level of consensual loving.

22 - Calvin Murphy: Former player and Rockets announcer accused of sexual abuse by 5 of his illegitimate children (he has 14 kids, 11 illegitimate). Juryacquitted him in less than two hours. But he lost his job and his reputation, so the damage was done.

23 - Eddie Johnson: "Fast" Eddie Johnson (not the other Eddie Johnson, the sixth man award winner, but the one who is a former Hawks player) wasaccused of sexual assault on an 8 year old girl. As far as I can tell, he is awaiting sentencing, but that may be wrong.

24 - Nick Anderson: Accused of rape. Held a press conference on the subject in which he cried a hell of a lot


Wow.

 

[paul is on tilt]

That thing is so long, it's going to take me a few days to read

... I skimmed it sort of and wondered why it was talking about baseball in thebeginning but then I saw Baron Davis' name in there somewhere

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[japanair21]

Whoops, put all of the site on accident, meant to put the list of sexual assault.

 

[acidicality]

Originally Posted by Paul Is On Tilt

That thing is so long, it's going to take me a few days to read

... I skimmed it sort of and wondered why it was talking about baseball in the beginning but then I saw Baron Davis' name in there somewhere

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same

 

[nothingtol0se]

i know it's late, but did i really just read something about coco crisp and how great gomez is...in a warriors thread?


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[paul is on tilt]

Why you edit out the Baron Davis paragraphs out? I wanted to read those

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[japanair21]

, sorry, I meant to post that list of sex offenders associated to the NBA and it pasted the entire website.

If you want to check it out;

http://www.shamsports.com/content/pages/index.jsp

Website may not be working right now, for whatever reason it's not for me.


[h2]Sunday, 25 May 2008[/h2]http://[h3]Baron Davis < Steve Nash < Jessica Alba < Me[/h3]You may or may not have heard of the website IBeatYou.com. Perhaps not. I hadn't heard of it until the day I heard about it, either.Nonetheless, there it is, and the premise seems rather simple yet rather awesome - people challenge people to do things. Pointless yet fun things.

One such challenge is The Stare-out challenge, in which competitors are challenged to see how long they can go without blinking. I think we have all playedthis game at some point in our lives.

Years of playing the Command And Conquer computer game series during my slightly angst-ridden teenage years have accidentally yet beautifully made me into alegend at this rather pointless game. My school years saw random students - who had heard of my reputation in this field - challenge me in the corridor to aspontaneous game, with no preparation on my part, and I won every time. It kind of had that Houdini "I dare you to punch me at any time and I'll beable to take it" feel to it, except that I didn't at any time die from these stare-outs. Not yet, anyway.

This ability was forgotten about as I finally encountered the world of maturity. But while it was forgotten about, it wasn't gone. Roughly a year ago, Ifound myself one evening with nothing to do [readers note: it's something of a life theme], and decided to time myself to see how long I could go for.

I managed 8 minutes and 46 seconds, without so much as a warm-up. I only stopped for two reasons:

1: I was starting to lose sight in both eyes.
2: Youtube cap their videos at ten minutes. [Readers note: the video is no longer on Youtube, so don't even look.]



I felt proud. I felt like I had achieved something. I hadn't, but I felt like it anyway.

Then, two days ago, I learn of the ibeatyou challenge. It now feels as though I have found my destiny. My life has a purpose, one that it never had before.

Celebrities have partaken in this game, too. The lovely Jessica Alba set out her stall early, and then Steve Nash had his own slightly scary-looking attemptto beat her.






Baron Davis also had a go, but his effort wasfrankly ****e. (His technique is all wrong. Don't hold your eyes shut like that. All it does is making the gradual dying of the pupil even more obvious,and thus even less tolerable. Rookie mistake. This is a champion talking, by the way.)




For reasons I have never figured out (it probably has something to do with the centuries-old technology on which it relies), Youtube videos have never workedon my computer. To watch them, I have always had to steal them and watch them at a later date. (Keepvid.com = a godsend.) This obstacle means that it is damnhard for me to find who the current leader is. As far as I can tell, only one entry so far tops 10 minutes.

If I can do almost 9 minutes without a warm-up, a practice, or with any sense of competition, do you really think I can't go for 15 when I've got thesweet smell of success within my grasp, and the potential adoration of literally dozens of people?

"The hell I can't."




So this is it. An imaginary gauntlet has been thrown down, and imaginary lines in make-believe sand have been made. I will win Jessica Alba's heart, earnSteve Nash's respect, and help Boom Dizzle correct the major flaws in his amateurish stare-out approach. I might even get my own Wikipedia entry, whoknows.

Balls to the impending blindness. This is why we have eyes.

Expect updates on this.



There were embedded videos to the IBeatYou YouTube videos (Alba's, Nash's, Baron's).

 

[nothingtol0se]

yeah, the link isn't working for me either. But lemme try and recap that paragraph for you paul

- dude was talking about how he finally found "ibeatyou.com" ...noticed celebs are doing it too. (name dropped alba, nash, and boom.)
- dude's computer is so slow/sucks that he can't watch youtube videos, so he has to download them.
- Due to his recent findings, dude believes he's found something to do with his life now.


...yeahhhh

 

[paul is on tilt]

It was about the dude and Baron's staring contests? Maybe I didn't want to read it afterall

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[andrew630]

i laugh when memphis thinks they are gonna make a run at Monta

 

[livemyreality]

Originally Posted by Andrew630

i laugh when memphis thinks they are gonna make a run at Monta

Monta will be untouchable. Forever warrior. Haha.

 

[acidicality]

Same with Biedrins.

 

[franchise 55]

I always laugh when I read something about how the Warriors might not want to match a lucrative contract offer for Monta. He isn't going anywhere andMullin has already said that.

 

[paul is on tilt]

Monta is going to be a Warrior forever!! Haha!!

 

[daprescription]

I thought you guys already knew, the Knicks are signing Monta.

 

[paul is on tilt]

Oh snap! I'm ashamed I forgot about the Knicks

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[acidicality]

Oh yea, we're letting Monta go since LeBron's coming over when his contract expires.

And while we're talking about the Knicks..I want David Lee.

 

[nothingtol0se]

Al + filter should get that done acid.

 

[acidicality]

Originally Posted by NothingToL0se

Al + filter should get that done acid.

 

[andrew630]

Lebron to the Warriors? I would be crying out of happiness.

 

[livemyreality]

Lebron in Oakland? Nah, I highly doubt it. He's going to try to make a major market so that $90 million Nike contract doubles.

 

[andrew630]

You think Lebron can build an empire to surpass Tiger?