Rut, you must be joking. The players will never slaughter their cash cow. I want to see how many pro games Artest plays if he sues the NBA for "allowing" the fans to engage him in a deleterious way. This will go away and money will be paid to the fans to keep this from getting any bigger than it is. Big business will take over and all this will merely be a 3 day blip unless criminal charges are brought against the players. Teams will disengage from those players while court is in session. Kobe taught the owners how to handle that.
PR spin and personal agents will earn their money and smooth everything over. Heck, look at Artest's 11 minute interview on MSN. He looks contrite and accepting. You won't see much argument coming from him. He knows (now) that he screwed up. By the way, the link to Artest's interview has been bumped down by a mother who cut her own daughter's arms off.
Bottom line is that some players forgot what they were supposed to be doing out there and got caught up in themselves. In this litigious day and age, money will exchange hands and we'll move on to the poor girl now with no arms.
Tue Nov 23, 2004, 02:53pm
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