Tiernan;1241823 wrote:NBA: THAT'S A CRIME!
By DAREH GREGORIAN
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The NBA is rapidly turning into a national criminals' association: A whopping 48 percent of NBA players have police records, a bombshell new book charges.
The book by investigative reporter Jeff Benedict, "Out of Bounds: Inside the NBA's Culture of Rape, Violence & Crime" isn't supposed to hit bookstores until later this week, but The Post located a copy that went on sale earlier.
In it, Benedict finds that 48 percent of the American players in the NBA during the 2007-08 season had police records involving a serious crime.
"It's a situation that is out of control and absolutely demands close scrutiny," Benedict writes.
The book is almost a "Who's Who in the NBA," and recounts legal scrapes involving everyone from Shaquille O'Neal, Patrick Ewing, Penny Hardway, Allen Iverson and Bonzi Wells to Ruben Patterson, Glenn Robinson and Damon Stoudamire.
The book notes that the problems with the law aren't a distant memory for many players.
Just as All-Star Kobe Bryant was being charged with sexually assaulting a Colorado woman, "25 law enforcement agencies in 13 cities in the United States and Canada were simultaneously proceeding with arrest warrants, indictments, plea-agreement proceedings or trials involving more than a dozen other NBA players," the book says.
Most of the player crimes involve violence against women, Benedict found.
His nationwide search, which focused on American players, turned up "33 criminal complaints of domestic violence against NBA players who played during the 2008-2009 season," a figure he said "is probably the tip of the iceberg" because "nationally, domestic violence compares with child abuse and rape as the most underreported crime in our society."
...I was mistaken not a "majority"... ONLY 48%!
First, this doesn't state whether or not the rap sheets were acquired while NBA players or prior.
Second, your own words were that the "majority" (but we'll take 48%) of them "continue [to] break laws." Having something on your record (like a DUI, for example) doesn't equate to someone continuing to break laws, does it?
Third, and getting back to the contention, how does having something on your record make you a "thug?" If you hadn't been acquitted, would you be a thug?
