For Artest, Today's Troubles Took Root Years Ago
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It often seems as if Ron Artest cannot help being at the center of a storm.
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Folks back in the United States are searching for an explanation to their basketball team&#39;s misfortunes.
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NEW YORK - The wrath of David Stern was unleashed, giving Ron Artest, Stephen Jackson and Jermaine O&#39;Neal a long time - extremely long in Artest&#39;s case - to ponder the error of their ways.
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Ron Artest has been hit with a season long suspension, unprecedented for the NBA outside doping cases; Stephen Jackson banned for 30 games; Jermaine O&#39;Neal for 25 games and Anthony Johnson for five.
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Ron Artest got his, and good. Now he loses a season out of his basketball prime, and his earning prime, because he couldn&#39;t control himself.
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David Stern led the NBA through drug problems and work stoppages. Now his league faces the stigma of a point-shaving scandal involving a referee.
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Ron Artest took the witness stand and described, in his words, one of the worst brawls in NBA history. Teammates Stephen Jackson, Jermaine O'Neal and Anthony Johnson did the same, and a union attorney and one of O'Neal's bodyguards also testified.
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Turns out Ron Artest, his Pacers posse and those few dozen fools in the stands who wanted a piece of them aren&#39;t the only people around the NBA who know how to throw a punch.
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He's 74 years old now and he's got more stories than just about anybody. There was the time he struck out Ted Williams in the All-Star Game. Then there was the time he had to separate Tom Heinsohn from Wilt Chamberlain during a heated exchange in an NBA game.
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Finally, a good experience at Detroit for Ron Artest.
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Friday night&#39;s basketbrawl in Detroit was a shameful chapter in sports history but also a conflagration of many of modern society&#39;s common ailments -- hair-trigger tempers, misplaced hostility, me-firstism, emotional immaturity, incivility, lack of self
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The NBAâs balls popped up Portland onto the championship path. And they may have consigned my Celtics to another decade in pro basketball hell.
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Ron Artest had more fun in Detroit than the Heat did in Miami.
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Sooner or later, every professional basketball playerâs career comes to an end. For Todd MacCulloch, that day came earlier than expected.
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The most infamous brawl in NBA history has the preseason Eastern Conference power Indiana Pacers scrambling for continuity and consistency.
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The NBA showed no mercy on Sunday, suspending Indiana's Ron Artest for the remainder of the season for his part in a brawl between the Pacers and the Detroit Pistons on Friday night.
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It began with Ron Artest, a player who has undergone anger-management counseling and who last season alone was suspended six times.