Police Seek Link in NBA Player RobberiesMAYBE THESE ROBBERIES ARE PAYBACK, OR A WAY FOR PEOPLE TO COVER THEIR GAMBLING LOSSES?
Two hulking NBA stars were bound with duct tape and robbed of cash and jewelry by masked gunmen in separate holdups that have Chicago-area detectives wondering whether someone is targeting professional athletes.
New York Knicks forward Eddy Curry 6-foot-11, 285 pounds was tied up along with his wife and an employee at his mansion in suburban Burr Ridge on Saturday.
Miami Heat forward Antoine Walker, who is 6-foot-9, 245 pounds, was similarly robbed along with a relative at his $4 million townhouse in Chicago's exclusive River North section on July 10.
No one was injured in either case.
"Our guys are talking to Chicago to determine if it's just a copycat or a coincidence or if there is a relationship there," Burr Ridge police Cpl. Tim Vaclav said.
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Good theory.
ReplyDeleteI never thought of that.
One of my favorite players from the 90's, Nick Van Exel, was famed for having accused a prmominent NBA referee of a "betting call."
I always thought that that was a case of "where there's smoke, there's fire."
In other words, while his accusation sounded outlandish, and he was among the most irrersponsible of players, it seemed to me at the time that it was just such a player who would tell the truth of what was going on in the NBA.
The NBA, as much as "I love it", is a game which seems to be gamed; to the point where I have actually heard major sports talk show hosts speaking of the NBA's need to step in and interfere in Jerry Buss's (the L.A. Lakers-owner) negotiations with Kobe Bryant - because "we need to keep a guy like him in a major market."
What kind of sport is that?
Well, it's the NBA; a sport which meets, in my opinion, in the middle ground between, real sport, jazz, and art.
I don't know what more to say past that.
Well, how about this, "I love it."