Comments on: 2007 NBA Thug Convention http://sports.outsidethebeltway.com/2007/02/2007-nba-thug-convention/ News and commentary on the world of sports. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:00:52 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: NBA All-Star Game Bad For Business » OTB Sports http://sports.outsidethebeltway.com/2007/02/2007-nba-thug-convention/comment-page-1/#comment-275214 NBA All-Star Game Bad For Business » OTB Sports Fri, 04 May 2007 19:15:50 +0000 http://sports.outsidethebeltway.com/2007/02/2007-nba-thug-convention/#comment-275214 [...] Some took objection when I called the 2007 NBA All-Star Game a “Thug Convention” and criticized the general problems with NBA Players obeying the law. Well guess what, the Chief Executive of MGM Mirage Inc. doesn’t want the NBA All-Star Game in town again because all of the gang-bangers and thugs that came to the game (and ‘activities’ outside of the game) led to violence, scared other guests and in the end hurt their first quarter earnings. MGM Mirage Inc.’s chief executive does not want the NBA All-Star Game to return to Las Vegas, saying Thursday that the casino’s first-quarter earnings were potentially hurt by the rowdy crowd that turned out for the league’s showcase game. [...] [...] Some took objection when I called the 2007 NBA All-Star Game a “Thug Convention” and criticized the general problems with NBA Players obeying the law. Well guess what, the Chief Executive of MGM Mirage Inc. doesn’t want the NBA All-Star Game in town again because all of the gang-bangers and thugs that came to the game (and ‘activities’ outside of the game) led to violence, scared other guests and in the end hurt their first quarter earnings. MGM Mirage Inc.’s chief executive does not want the NBA All-Star Game to return to Las Vegas, saying Thursday that the casino’s first-quarter earnings were potentially hurt by the rowdy crowd that turned out for the league’s showcase game. [...]

]]> By: Get over yourself http://sports.outsidethebeltway.com/2007/02/2007-nba-thug-convention/comment-page-1/#comment-234442 Get over yourself Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:46:11 +0000 http://sports.outsidethebeltway.com/2007/02/2007-nba-thug-convention/#comment-234442 Please, take your sanctimonious high horse act elsewhere. There was more violence and more than double the arrests over the New Year's eve weekend in Vegas than there was over the NBA all star weekend. Yet where was the press coverage and the outrage then? Was it because the majority of the crime committed in Vegas that weekend was by the Nevada residents themselves? This is yet another case of the media trying to portray the mostly all black NBA as a group of "thugs". Please, take your sanctimonious high horse act elsewhere. There was more violence and more than double the arrests over the New Year’s eve weekend in Vegas than there was over the NBA all star weekend.

Yet where was the press coverage and the outrage then? Was it because the majority of the crime committed in Vegas that weekend was by the Nevada residents themselves? This is yet another case of the media trying to portray the mostly all black NBA as a group of “thugs”.

]]> By: Eneils Bailey http://sports.outsidethebeltway.com/2007/02/2007-nba-thug-convention/comment-page-1/#comment-198059 Eneils Bailey Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:34:24 +0000 http://sports.outsidethebeltway.com/2007/02/2007-nba-thug-convention/#comment-198059 I have always said the NBA is nothing more than the "crips" and "bloods" with a lot more money. Would not watch the final game of the NBA Championship if they played it in my den. Why anyone would take a family and sit close to the court is beyond me. I have always said the NBA is nothing more than the “crips” and “bloods” with a lot more money.
Would not watch the final game of the NBA Championship if they played it in my den.
Why anyone would take a family and sit close to the court is beyond me.

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