Wojo: Mayo and Allen Fight on plane

[DJ Mbenga]

http://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/status/22527791304019969
http://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/status/22526784419401728
http://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/status/22527377825337344

Mayo got into Allen's face, and Allen struck him, sources say. Several teammates got between them and broke it up. Mayo missed Tuesday game.

[Ghazi]

Mayo to the Mavs

[IronMexican]

And it begins. Joe Smith and a 2020 2nd rounder for Mayo

[redzero]

Trevor Ariza + Marco Belinelli for OJ Mayo

Do it, Demps.

[024]

what a joke of a franchise.

[angelbelow]

Lol what could they possibility have to fight about.

[Stringer_Bell]

Lol what could they possibility have to fight about.

Apparently it was a card game altercation. Again. That's the same shit that got Arenas and that other kid pointing guns at each other in their locker room. Then the NBA banned it, or so they claimed. And you'd think Tony Allen, after those death threats to ice him at his place of work (aka during an NBA game), he'd lay off the shady money dealing shit. Guess not.

[Giuseppe]

Maybe it was like over calf tats.

[sefant77]

They gave up Kevin Love and Mike Miller to get Mayo

:rollin

Thabeet at #2

Conley at #4

The Grizzlies are the biggest joke of the NBA. Without the luck that Marc Gasol developed into a great center (what - considering their draft history and "eye for talent" - was indeed pure luck) they just simply sucked in every aspect....

[Muser]

Rofl giving up Love.

[ElNono]

Does Wojo has cameras on every team plane or something? He gets every scoop...

[Crytek]

NBA.com (http://www.nba.com/2011/news/01/05/mayo-allen-fight.ap/index.html)

Posted Jan 5 2011 1:47AM MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Yahoo! Sports is reporting that Grizzlies guards O.J. Mayo and Tony Allen got into a fight on the team's charter flight Monday after a card game.

According to the report, which cited unidentified sources, Mayo owed Allen money following the game and became increasingly angry toward Allen when asked to settle the debt. Several players eventually had to separate the teammates.
Grizzlies general manager Chris Wallace acknowledged the altercation in an e-mailed statement but provided no details about what caused the skirmish. He said: "The club considers the matter closed and will not comment further."
Allen had 19 points in the Grizzlies' 110-105 victory over Oklahoma City on Tuesday night. Mayo missed the game with bronchitis.


Yahoo (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=ArivANZVp3il2_lVWxW2NIm8vLYF?slug=aw-allengrizzlies010411)


Mayo owed Allen money from a card game, “Boo-Ray” and sources said Mayo became increasingly belligerent and antagonistic toward Allen when asked to settle the debt. Sources said Allen walked away from Mayo to go the restroom and returned to find Mayo continuing to berate him. Eventually, Mayo inched close to Allen, and sources said Allen hit Mayo.


“Tony warned [Mayo] to watch his mouth, and [Mayo] wouldn’t do it and just kept going off on him,” a source with knowledge of the incident told Yahoo! Sports.
Several players eventually separated the teammates, sources said. Mayo and Allen were brought into meet with Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins on Monday, and sources said the organization believed Mayo played the bigger part in escalating the encounter.

[...]

Allen told one associate that the money owed to him was “short money,” and another source said Mayo owed him “a few grand.”
“Boo-Ray” is the same card game Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton were playing on the Washington Wizards’ charter flight last season that ultimately led to the confrontation in which Arenas brought guns into the team’s locker room. After the incident, several teams moved to curtail gambling on team flights.

:ihit :nope

[jag]

What's a boo-ray?

[jag]

Memphis’ O.J.Mayo, Tony Allen fight on team plane (http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/05/memphis%E2%80%99-o-j-mayo-tony-allen-fight-on-team-plane/)

Tuesday night, O.J. Mayo was out of the Memphis lineup with what was officially called a case of bronchitis, but it may be a swollen face may be the real cause.

Mayo and teammate Tony Allen got into a fight over a debt from a card game on a Sunday night flight and had to be separated by teammates (Yahoo Sports had the story first). Grizzlies’ general manager Chris Wallace confirmed there was an incident in an email to media in which he also said:

“The club considers the matter closed and will not comment further.”

The cause of the fight, according to Yahoo, was money owed from a card game called “boo-ray” played on the plane.
Expect the league to come in with potentially harsh fines and suspensions — remember it was a fight over money owed from a boo-ray card game between Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton that led to the gun incident in the Washington locker room, and subsequent suspensions for the rest of the season. That was just last year. The image-conscious NBA is not going to mess around this time.

This also may cause the league to come in and clamp down on card game gambling on team charter flights, which is a pretty common occurrence. Several teams took steps after the Wizards incident last year but a league-wide edict would not be a surprise now.

[sefant77]

Allen told one associate that the money owed to him was “short money,” and another source said Mayo owed him “a few grand.”

Maybe "a few grand" is short money for T. Allen. Lets see when he is broke...

[sefant77]

What's a boo-ray?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourr%C3%A9

[jag]

You think a “your dad’s in jail for murder” joke came from Allen?

[Trill Clinton]

Mayo is a real nigga...No way Allen has seen the end of OJ.

[Shank]

Someone's about to get sticked when they're not expecting it, yo.

[SourCandy]

cry babies.

[Jose Canseco]

2 studio gangstas doing research for a rap song

[TDMVPDPOY]

millionaires playin cards, lmao goto a casino clowns

[duncan228]

Memphis ends gambling on flights (http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/05/memphis-considers-gambling-ban-on-flights/)
Kurt Helin

Professional athletes gambling while traveling is far from some new issue — what do you think Babe Ruth did to pass the time on train rides, read? Today, when players travel by charter plane, card game gambling is commonplace.

Fights over money won and lost are not uncommon (very few make it public).

The latest fight (http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/05/memphis%e2%80%99-o-j-mayo-tony-allen-fight-on-team-plane/) was between Memphis’ O.J. Mayo and Tony Allen, which led Memphis Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins to announce a ban on in-flight gambling, a team spokesman told the Associated Press Wednesday. Gambling in team hotels also has been banned.

Whether or not there had been an official ban, there was going to be no more gambling on flights, Grizzlies captain Rudy Gay said on the Jim Rome radio show (http://www.jimrome.com/).


“From now on, we’re playing Candyland,” Gay told Rome.

Banning gambling is a step several teams took in the wake of the Gilbert Arenas/Javaris Crittenton dispute last year that ended up with the gun incident in the Wizards locker room (and the ensuing suspensions).

The league is not going to mandate the action and apparently will not take action against the players, keeping this an internal team matter.

Mayo did not play Tuesday night for the Grizzlies, officially because of “bronchitis” but nobody actually believes that. He was either still injured — all reports are Allen got the best of the fight by far — or it was a team disciplinary action because Mayo is said to have been the instigator.

The next Grizzlies flight will be Friday.

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/05/memphis-considers-gambling-ban-on-flights/