Sunday, December 17, 2006

One Step Up, Two Steps Back

So much for David Stern's holiday season. No doubt buoyed by the selection of Dwayne Wade as Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year and the media blitz surrounding the triumvirate of young superstars (Wade, LeBron James, and Carmello Anthony) expected to lead the league back into the promised land, he gets burned by the silly "composite ball scandal" and now by the precedent-setting, 10-players tossed brawl in New York City last night. Making a bad situation worse, the brawl featured none other than anointed superstar Mr. Anthony, who by all accounts came perilously close to pulling a Ron Artest and getting himself thrown out for an entire season.

No doubt, the league will overcome this latest embarrassment, but it's just one more example of a pampered superstar exhibiting behavior that, in the long run, will lead to a further degradation of the game. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

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