17;t change and continue to commit crimes stay in the league? The National Basketball Association is another league in which violence both on and off the court. The most notable example of recent years is the Latrell Sprewell and P.J. Carlesimo incident. Sprewell, a Golden State Warrior player under Carlesimo at the time, choked his coach in the middle of practice. It was all over the news, and the NBA suspended him and fined him for a year. Now he is playing for the NY Knicks in the playoffs making more money then he was before. Is this how it should be? I don’t know maybe it did effect him and he has changed. He hasn’t got in any fights since then. Maybe the message was sent. But there are fights that still occur occasionally in the NBA and things that just don’t belong in the game happen. Dennis Rodman is another perfect example; he would head butt referees and kick cameramen in the groin. But he would still fined some team that wanted to take him. Recently with Dallas I think all the teams in the league just realized that he is not going to change. He is now most likely out of the league forever. The question is asked though “Did he get too many chances?” I feel that he did, even though he was a very good player he gave the NBA a bad name and a bad image. The Leagues need to start taking control of the players and not allowing them to embarrass the league or make them look bad. The players who do things to damages the images of the different leagues need to be punished a lot more then they are. Another reason is because of the incidents that are now occurring at the college level. A prime example of that would be the incident that has recently come out about Indiana Universities men’s basketball coach Bobby Knight. As seen in the picture on the following page, Coach Knight was accused of choking former player Neil Reed. The investigation is still going on but what does thi...
