Reply With Quote
Oh, Ron Ron. Always good for a chuckle.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...ers/index.htmlArtest, 29, may be one of the league's most well-known players, but he often carries himself like a struggling rapper trying to make a name for himself with a grassroots marketing campaign and a penchant for saying yes to just about anything. Just weeks before the season he was on TV raising money for the Hasidic Jewish movement Chabad-Lubavitch, volunteering at an Iranian basketball camp, walking dogs at an animal shelter and taking some of his Twitter followers to a WNBA game, breakfast and bowling. Every time you turned around Artest was at another event, one more random than the next.
He seems to have made a point to win over Los Angeles one Lakers fan at time, though he doesn't exactly see it like that. "These things that I do aren't for anything. They have no purpose," Artest said. "I'm not promoting anything or selling nothing. I just want to have fun and meet my fans."
There are many things that Artest does that have no purpose. For example, for an interview with SI.com the other day, Artest hired Natalin Avci, a 23-year-old Turkish model he had met recently in a hotel lobby, and a camera crew for a photo shoot for the heck of it. "The only purpose is to have fun," Artest said.
That would appear to be one of the driving forces behind many of Artest's decisions, including the one that could drive him to get out of his Lakers contract early.
"I signed for five years but I want to box, I want to fight a heavyweight fight in four years," Artest said on more than one occasion. "I started training already and I'm doing good and I think in four years I'll be ready to fight my first professional fight. I want to get four professional fights under my belt and see how I do and take it from there. That's been my goal for a long time. Whether I get knocked out or knock somebody out, I just want to fight."
On the court, his performance this season will be judged in large part on whether the Lakers are able to repeat with him instead of Ariza. "I know the pressure is on me. I'm the one change that they made," Artest said. "I have to take responsibility. You can't put it all on Kobe [Bryant]. I know what I have to do."
Oh, Ron Ron. Always good for a chuckle.
I hope this attention goes through with it and gets knocked out cold...
Ron couldn't even knock out a Pistons fan.
Which just proves how ing stupid they are.
Wow you are so scared of Blair.
He couldn't even get a punch in on that fat kid who rushed the floor in Detroit! Not to mention he ducked Ben Wallace when Big Ben wanted a piece of him 2 minutes before.
Everything red sucks timvp's ass, like bloods, reps, commies, rockets, etc...
Though Ron will prove to be fitter for real fighting than NBA manipulated "games", and no one will ban or fine him there even if he beats others pretty badly, the vivider description should be "he curbstomps the out of them".
what does this have to do with the blazers?
Is he gonna be like this all season?
Who said anything about the blazers?
I hope for his sake he sticks to basketball. I've been boxing for about 15 years, but I wouldn't be foolish enough to try going pro. To try to start a pro career now would only set him up for embarassment.
Can't knock a man for having dreams.
Good luck with that.
Just shows how much of a headcase he really is. You still believing that he's 100% focused on helping the Lakers win a ring? lol @ lakerfans
You might do well to get yourself some Thorazine for the upcoming season, cause Ron Ron obviously isn't taking his.......
I laughed so hard when I read this! Too dang funny! See what you got yourselves? A bonafide NUTCASE! And Lakers fans thought he was going to save the day! Get ready for a long season of drama, Lakers fans!
this kinda true
apparently you haven't paid much attention to the NBA Forum and all of the delightful threads T has posted lately.
Can Tyson still fight?
I'd watch a Tyson-Artest bout.
I also heard that Sasha Vujacic has challenged Kimbo Slice to a cage match…
Go-go dance off in a cage?
that kid from the partridge family that boxes would wup Artest
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
