Word: carlesimo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sprewell's circumstances offered basketball as a pathway to social respectability, self-realization, manhood in the mainstream. In the absence of a more effective emasculator than P.J. Carlesimo and the almighty roundball, Sprewell inevitably struck back...
...yesterday came the arbitrator's ruling that the Golden State Warriors have to reinstate Latrell Sprewell's contract and that the NBA has to reduce his suspension to seven months. He had been punished for allegedly attacking Coach P.J. Carlesimo at practice, returning 20 minutes later, and resuming the assault...
...THUGS IN SHORTS We've heard of players choking during a game, but Latrell Sprewell couldn't wait that long: the Golden State Warriors star throttled his coach, P.J. Carlesimo, in practice. At times, NBA royalty beat up fans, refs and each other, but Sprewell's attack won him a year's suspension--and the services of Johnnie Cochran. Now the streets are filled with cries of "Free Spree!" And the coach, who is no more a psycho Patton than Bobby Knight or Woody Hayes, must be wondering how an assault victim could become the perp. Advice to P.J.: This...
...history of bad behavior and flashiness--as an extreme case to be made an example of. When other coaches were interviewed about the problems in the league, the older, whiter group repeatedly used the terms "respect for authority" and "lack of discipline." With their power eroding, coaches like Carlesimo and Don Nelson--who have a history of losing records and losing personalities--can't think of any way to earn respect other than yelling louder...
...Carlesimo has had trouble with his players at every stop in his coaching path, and is infamous for his profanity-strewn screaming sessions. Sprewell dated his conflict with Carlesimo to a Nov. 9 blow-up during a game against the Los Angeles Lakers. He told the San Francisco Chronicle, "The first time we got into it, I said, 'Don't talk to me like that. If you have to talk to me, talk to me like a man." No doubt Spree for Three complained of a lack of respect from Carlesimo partly because the stuffy white guy and corn-rowed...