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I don’t want to spend too much time ranting about the babies playing basketball… “Oh! He threw a beer in my face so I punched him!”, “Oh! My coach called me names so I choked him!”. After all, the jackass has a CD to promote. That punch was the best thing to happen to Artest’s agent’s career!

If I were being paid $6 million a year to play games, you could kick me squa’ in the nuts with steel-toed boots and I wouldn’t respond in such a neandrotholic, barbaric way.

…I might take a hit out on you, but again, that’s because I’ve got $6 million to do it with!

I’d rather talk about Vince Carter. Here’s a guy who wants to leave a Toronto team, as so many successful players have in professional sports. The difference between him and whiny bitches like Cujo, David Wells, Roger Clemons and (biggest bitch of them all) Roberto Alomar, is that Vince is being civil about it. There’s been no whining about how the team isn’t good enough for him, no complaints that the ‘fans don’t care’.

There was the controversy over the weekend that he ‘would not dunk’ the ball in games, even though that’s the move that made him a star. However, either he received a stern talking-to, or it truly was taken out of context as a mental meandering said out loud (which seems more likely). Either way, he was dunking the ball in the Raptors’ latest losing game, and he’s still acting civil.

When Vince’s popularity soared in 2001, I started counting the months before he was shipped off to a more appreciative city… by ‘more appreciative’, I mean more money and a better team. The ironic situation here is that lack of controversy is the news item at the same time as being the reason it’s not an interesting news item…

…and that’s why you hear about nothing but Artest’s temper tantrum on ESPN.