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...fatal flaw of former Mets GM Steve Phillips was his refusal to rebuild, his stubborn belief that the team would contend and reach greatness with one or two added pieces. He didn’t grasp the concept that baseball isn’t like the NBA, where two superstars can turn any last-place team into championship material. Baseball teams can’t be fixed so easily. Successful teams build from the ground up and then fill in the pieces...
BASKETBALL NBA stars fizzled in Athens. And the league is still reeling from the brawl that spawned criminal charges against five Indiana Pacers and seven Detroit fans...
...word failed to make it into the story: respect. Would anyone else's reaction have been different from Pacers forward Ron Artest's after getting hit by a full cup of beer? Artest was made a scapegoat by the National Basketball Association. To me, that shows that the NBA and the fans do not respect the players. NBA basketball is played by some of the most magnificent athletes in the world, and they are intense competitors. Contact sports often create off-court fisticuffs. Suspending Artest for the rest of the season is an injustice. The NBA front office needs...
Meanwhile, back on the court, the Pacers, even with three of their best players suspended, went on to win three of their next four games, while Detroit, the defending NBA champion, is struggling to regain its championship form. The two teams will meet again this season--in Indianapolis on Christmas Day. They are not likely to be exchanging gifts. --With reporting by Peter Bailey and Sean Gregory/New York, Joseph R. Szczesny/ Detroit and David Thigpen/Chicago
CHARGED. RON ARTEST, 25, STEPHEN JACKSON, 26, DAVID HARRISON, 22, ANTHONY JOHNSON, 30, and JERMAINE O'NEAL, 26, NBA players for the Indiana Pacers; and five Detroit fans; with misdemeanor assault and battery--and in the case of Bryant Jackson, a fan who threw a chair, an additional felony charge--committed during a brawl at the end of a Detroit Pistons--Pacers game on Nov 19; by Oakland County prosecutor David Gorcyca...