How Did The Spurs Forgive Tony Parker for the Brent Barry Wife Infidelities?

[Ghost Writer]

It went from 2-3 die hard anti French haters to a pack of adolescent try hards via the smooth and overwhelming trolling of a Canadian boy posing as spurs fan.

Welp, I loathed Parker since his debut.

[EVAY]

Erin Barry Breaks Silence On Tony Parker: ‘I Did Not Have An Affair’

http://radaronline.com/exclusives/20...-did-not-have/

This is the first time I ever read anything like this, but since it is from Erin Barry herself, I assume it has some credibility.

I had always read that the issue was one of "sexting", rather than an actual affair, and several accounts have repeated that.

I certainly don't know for sure nor does anyone else.



I have always wondered this, however: Given the 'classy' Spurs as an organization, and given the fact that this all occurred long before the last contract offer to TP, doesn't it seem surprising, if an affair actually happened that was the cause of a divorce, that the organization would have extended a contract offer to such an allegedly poor teammate as late as 2013? Wouldn't that have been very "un-Spursian"? If TP is the 'cancer' that some on this forum allege him to be, isn't it surprising that the FO gave him such a huge contract? Wouldn't they have been eager to be rid of him?

[itsamanuthree]

Well, the way I see it, the franchise just thought keeping Parker was more important and decided to turn a blind eye on the whole issue big time.

Supposing, of course, no one in the organization condonned Parker for what he did, I guess we just have to accept (well, I have, at least) that some people would choose what's more advantegous to them and the enterprise they are running, than what's more honourable.

Had it happened, though, before, during the first year or so of Parker being in the team, I think the Spurs would have traded his ass right away. But, with the projetc already in motion, with the exitement of having three of the best players in the league and on our way to build a dinasty, it seems to me, as I said, the organization feared changing things around.

On a side note, particularly about Pop, I think his relation with Parker has been rather special. Not talking about how intimate they got to be, that's not the point, but about Pop's coaching of this player. Sure Pop will be always greatful to have had Duncan in the team, a bloody consistent performer and one of the best power forwards ever, and Manu Ginobili, one of the of the most fierce, creative and naturally talented players to have played basketball. But Pop can't claim he made these players from the ground up, took'em from anonimity to the very top of the basketball world, they came to the team already quite mature both in psychological and playing terms. Parker, on the other hand, was right from the start Pop's creation. "Tony, look at this line, you are here and Stockton's here... I'm not asking you to be Stockton, but I do need you to be more in the middle between what you are now and Stockton". He was Pop's experiment the whole time and, aside from how close Pop got to his objective or if he fell short and ended up with a Frankenstein, doesn't matter, not the point here, not hating... the fact is that it was his creation, and Pop must have felt rather unhappy at the prospect of loosing him.

[Marcus Bryant]

[Biernutz]

Welp, I loathed Parker since his debut.

Why didn't you start this thread "as a Tony Parker Hater" instead some crap
innocence question. Your just a troll account of another hater.......

[DesignatedT]

take this to the club

[EVAY]

Welp, I loathed Parker since his debut.

So, you loathed him before any 'sexting' scandal or anything else.

You certainly have every right to loathe the man and to consider his humanity, as well as his playing abilities, to be suspect. Good of you to acknowledge the pre-existing bias, in fact.

My take has always been that he was never as good a player as some thought him to be and never as bad as others thought him to be. He has always seemed to me to be an average-skill set sort of guy who was (almost literally) whipped into a decent pg by Popovich over his first several years in the league, and who has always tried to do exactly what Pop wanted him to do.

I also think his morals are about as average as most professional basketball players. I think the genuine shock that some posters herein seem to have over the scandal is a fairly significant display of naiveté.

People who hate him (as you admittedly do ghost-writer) can and do beat this dead horse into the ground every chance they get. But clearly, the organization did its normal Spurs thing. Close ranks and shut everybody else out.

TP has never, in my mind, been as good as he appears to think himself to be, but he has been a really hard worker except when hurt. I think he is egotistic and vain. Having said that, it is all irrelevant to what he brings the team. PATFO seem to value him differently than the cadre of posters herein who have their own agenda and cannot seem to control their need to try to advance that agenda every chance they get. The fact that some of us don't actively 'loathe' the man as you do is grounds on this forum to be called all manner of unseemly names, reflective of little more than a classically adolescent inability to recognize nuanced assessments as opposed to the "You're either with me or against me" mentality.

[Ghost Writer]

Biernutz, I was posting in the forefather of this Forum when you were swinging in your daddy's Beer Nuts.

My questions were legitimate and very little light has been shed that I didn't already know from my past research.

I'm not an impostor. I'm not a troll. I'll post how I want, when I want, to whomever I want. You've added zero value to this discussion and taken it down a dark road.

It's okay to be a Parker guy. But don't fault others for asking questions or not sharing your views.

[SnakeBoy]

I had always read that the issue was one of "sexting", rather than an actual affair, and several accounts have repeated that.

I think the real issue was that Eva was an old chick that didn't want to give Tony babies.

[Biernutz]

So, you loathed him before any 'sexting' scandal or anything else.

You certainly have every right to loathe the man and to consider his humanity, as well as his playing abilities, to be suspect. Good of you to acknowledge the pre-existing bias, in fact.

My take has always been that he was never as good a player as some thought him to be and never as bad as others thought him to be. He has always seemed to me to be an average-skill set sort of guy who was (almost literally) whipped into a decent pg by Popovich over his first several years in the league, and who has always tried to do exactly what Pop wanted him to do.

I also think his morals are about as average as most professional basketball players. I think the genuine shock that some posters herein seem to have over the scandal is fairly significant display of naiveté.

People who hate him (as you admittedly do ghost-writer) can and do beat this dead horse into the ground every chance they get. But clearly, the organization did its normal Spurs thing. Close ranks and shut everybody else out.


TP has never, in my mind, been as good as he appears to think himself to be, but he has been a really hard worker except when hurt. I think he is egotistic and vain. Having said that, it is all irrelevant to what he brings the team. PATFO seem to value him differently than the cadre of posters herein who have their own agenda and cannot seem to control their need to try to advance that agenda every chance they get. The fact that some of us don't actively 'loathe' the man as you do is grounds on this forum to be called all manner of unseemly names, reflective of little more than a classically adolescent inability to recognize nuanced assessments as opposed to the "You're either with me or against me" mentality.

Ghost Writer is just another hater with a troll account........

[Biernutz]

Biernutz, I was posting in the forefather of this Forum when you were swinging in your daddy's Beer Nuts.

My questions were legitimate and very little light has been shed that I didn't already know from my past research.

I'm not an impostor. I'm not a troll. I'll post how I want, when I want, to whomever I want. You've added zero value to this discussion and taken it down a dark road.

It's okay to be a Parker guy. But don't fault others for asking questions or not sharing your views.

you are a troll admit it.....

[EVAY]

I think the real issue was that Eva was an old chick that didn't want to give Tony babies.

Actually, I think that Eva had the hots for Tony and was something of a Cougar. I remember thinking when the local news ran a video story on her quoting her as saying "my favorite Spur is Tony Parker" before they had ever even met, that she was about 8 years older than Tony and wayyyyyyy more sophisticated. I was surprised when they got married and wondered how she imagined that someone as young as him would be able to stick with marriage vows on a professional basketball schedule. Seriously?

[Marcus Bryant]

What the is this?

Well, it's not the 1,000th thread about Parker's weight, that's for certain.

[Blake]

Ghost Writer is just another hater with a troll account........

That has a million posts in his count

[Blake]

Well, it's not the 1,000th thread about Parker's weight, that's for certain.

A million like this guy

[HarlemHeat37]

Damn, good post OP..you should post more often, tbh..

[dabom]

Parker didn't flirt with his wife. He ed her plain and simple. People are ing stupid on these boards.

[spurs10]

at this point it is mere speculation tbh

You could go also on the "the two couples had couples issue, parker and erin texted each other but nothing really happened, Eva used that to save face in her divorce and get a leverage to negotiate money. Parker has been ing classy and stay quiet and don't put on Eva's ventilator. On erin and brent side, mariage was ed up anyways"

[dabom]

High school sweetheart mother of 3 or 4 married for many ing years and they divorce for flirting texts.

[FromWayDowntown]

LOL at GhostWriter being a troll.

I've never really cared how the Spurs resolved whatever strife might have come out of a tryst between Tony Parker and Erin Barry. Whatever happened is what happened, and from the outside, it appears that everyone handled the issues (if there were any) like grown-ups. Tony's alleged conduct isn't very Spurs-ian, but it's also not particularly heinous in any objective sense. Assuming there was an affair, he was tempted by a beautiful woman and may have acted on that impulse. It's a move, but it's not a crime. Whatever his teammates thought of him in that cir stance, the gang that's been here throughout doesn't appear to have allowed any negative views of Parker to impact their play or their willingness to play with him.

I don't know how they got to that point; my educated guess would be that everyone aired their grievances and concerns in private and then agreed to move on from there with no public drama. It's what grown up people with real jobs and real problems have to do all the time.

[Ginobilly]

Parker didn't flirt with his wife. He ed her plain and simple. People are ing stupid on these boards.

People who think it was only "sexting"(I believe Erin) have never had a girlfriend/wife ever in their lives. Like women never lie to save face?.... It's a sixth sense that men develop after having so many gf's that you just "know" when they're lying their panties off about ing other dudes. Take for example Delonte and Gloria's affair...... They both deny it( because they don't want to hurt bron's feeling) but everybody in the basketball world knows they did.

[dabom]

Even eva broke up tony. You can bet it wasn't just sexting.

[Hemotivo]

Parker didn't flirt with his wife. He ed her plain and simple. People are ing stupid on these boards.

[Gervin44Silas13]

the pussy was there so he took it and hit it!!!!!
and hit Eva's pussy a bit little more


Tony's a pimp!!!!

[CosmicCowboy]

Erin Barry is so screaming hot I just couldn't blame Tony for hitting it.