Bill Simmons, questioning all those idiot NBA analysts calling thug-turned-champion Rasheed Wallace “misunderstood.”:
“Let's say you're working on Wall Street. Every two weeks, you flip out on someone and get escorted out of the building. This happens for 10 straight years. You can't help yourself. They keep fining you, you're costing the company money ... doesn't matter. You're a lunatic. Then you change firms and keep it together for four months, just long enough for the new firm to consider signing you to an extension. Well, does that make you "misunderstood," or are you just a lunatic with a convenient on-off switch?”
It’s that whole “winning heals all wounds” rule- you don’t think ‘Sheed will go right back to being a nutcase as soon as the Pistons (or whoever he signs with) go south again?
Posted by Stephen Silver at June 18, 2004 03:35 PM