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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...good year to clone sheep, but pictures of the identical woolly faces of Scotland's Dolly whipped up a public panic of their own. President Clinton leaped to the task of devising cloning regulations, and Congress held hearings. Public imaginations abetted public nerves as one envisioned an NBA populated by Michael Jordans, a music world consisting of multiple John Teshes, and sheep of the ideological variety. Meanwhile, at the other end of the barnyard, the discovery of mad-cow disease (a more colorful, thus emotionally agitating term than bovine spongiform encephalopathy) had real men ordering sushi...
...kill you! You better get me off this team, or that's what I'm going to do." It was the most dramatic moment of the Warriors' inept season and landed Latrell not only a canceled contract, a shredded endorsement deal with Converse and a yearlong ban from the NBA, but also the finger wagging of every sports pundit in the country...
...choke your boss, especially in front of your co-workers. But how bad was it? Sprewell's contract was the first ever terminated through paragraph 16A1 of the uniform player contract, which prohibits "acts of moral turpitude." And the yearlong ban was, by 10 months, the longest in NBA history. Was what Sprewell did that much worse than Charles Barkley's throwing a guy through a plate-glass window? Worse than Barkley's spitting on a fan? Worse than Barkley's punching a guy in a bar? In a world in which players are richer, more popular and much bigger...
DAVID STERN Scores with public for curbing exactly the type of indulged superstar the NBA itself created...