Josh Howard arrested

by Adam J. Morris on Aug 1, 2008 4:54 PM CDT Comment 38 comments

Josh Howard has been arrested for street racing.

Bad week for the Mavs...Rockets get Artest, Cuban gets bitch-slapped by the arbitrator in the Nellie lawsuit, and now this.

Feel free to flame away about how I'm being too negative and have ignored all the really great Mavs news there has been over the past month. I'm sure there has been a bunch of it that I'm just ignoring.

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Well you could've posted about

how James Singelton and some of the other young guys were looking pretty decent in the summer league…but that wouldn’t fit in with your agenda. Ha.

I'm undefeated in fights. Have I been in any? No. Thats because people know my f'ing status. Don't mess with the elite. - Miles

by Dirk Diggler on Aug 1, 2008 4:57 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

hmm

always weird how a guy can be seemingly clean and quiet for a while and then in a year or 2 just get in trouble or make bad choices over and over.

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NIXON: NOW MORE THAN EVER

by gossamer on Aug 1, 2008 4:58 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

How happy are you right now, AJM?

The 40 Trumps All!!!

by thedirkatron on Aug 1, 2008 5:00 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Not at all

I mean, I’m happy about the arbitrator’s decision, because I felt Cuban was just being an a-hole about the whole deal and trying to prove a point, and was willing to spend the money on attorneys fees to drag things out. That’s one of the advantages of being a billionaire.

But the Artest deal and the Howard deal sucks. Particularly the Artest deal, because I hate the Rockets.

The only upside of the Artest thing is if it results in the Mavs being in a position come February where they realize they aren’t legit contenders, and need to start rebuilding, allowing them to deal off Kidd for someone with a future, and maybe Howard.

by Adam J. Morris on Aug 1, 2008 5:09 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Weren't you arguing a while back

that nobody will give you anything worthwhile for Kidd?

I'm undefeated in fights. Have I been in any? No. Thats because people know my f'ing status. Don't mess with the elite. - Miles

by Dirk Diggler on Aug 1, 2008 5:43 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

It is a hard call

I don’t think you can get much for him. You are either going to need to find a team that really needs a PG at the deadline, or else a team that wants salary cap space and is willing to give you a good player with a bad contract (and maybe a #1) to get the space.

It is really going to be circumstance dependent. The Mavs will be better off getting what they can for him at the deadline, and hopefully that will be something worthwhile, than just trying to eke into the #7 or #8 spot with him and get knocked out in the first round, with his salary coming off the books and having to hope you can work out a sign and trade after the season.

by Adam J. Morris on Aug 1, 2008 5:49 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Why would Dallas take a good player with a bad contract

in a situation where they are looking to rebuild? For example, Sacramento, clearly a team at the point of rebuilding, was looking to deal Artest (a head case) and Kenny Thomas (God-awful, hideous contract). Every team that contacted Sacramento about Artest was also required to take Kenny Thomas and his pig of a contract and Sacramento was looking for compensation for Thomas too. Thus, everyone pretty much balked at that proposition. Finally, Sacramento realized they were just going to have to eat Thomas’ contract and get what they could for Artest.

Point is, pretty much every team except the Grizzlies right now are in cap/luxury hell and looking to clear cap space for a 2010 run at the plethora of prime unrestricted free agents. I don’t see teams looking to take an unnecessary or bad cap hit unless they are on the edge of a championship, which Dallas probably isn’t.

There is no such thing as global warming. David Murphy was cold, so he turned the sun up.

by SarasotaRanger on Aug 2, 2008 1:13 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Did you ue to live in Dallas?

Forgive me, but I don’t understand why you’re a Houston guy who’s a fan of Dallas teams.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Stuff-You-Need-Brett-Favre-action-figure-bench?urn=nfl,93739

by BudLight on Aug 1, 2008 5:57 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I grew up in Fort Worth

by Adam J. Morris on Aug 1, 2008 5:59 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I was thinking the worst, something with drugs…

It ain’t Vick.

Go Strangers.

by hightowersmith on Aug 1, 2008 5:02 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

but still

he played like crap, that can’t really be helped. maybe practice and a gut check can fix that.

the weed thing and street racing are small things. the weed shouldn’t even be an issue at all, but it still pissed people off.

little things add up and he’ll develop a reputation as a bad guy or…a cancer. he’s no ron artest or latrell but people will say he’s getting there.

hopefully somebody will tell him to settle down for a while. be quiet, stay out of trouble and have a smile.

http://www.buchanan4pres2008.org/
NIXON: NOW MORE THAN EVER

by gossamer on Aug 1, 2008 5:11 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

He never had any problems back when he was hangin with Marquis

Bring back Quisy

by robert_d_wilfong on Aug 1, 2008 5:15 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

then marquis started getting in trouble in indy

http://www.buchanan4pres2008.org/
NIXON: NOW MORE THAN EVER

by gossamer on Aug 1, 2008 5:17 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I thought he was sleazy

Thought he was a mark
Because he used to hang with Quisy

by Adam J. Morris on Aug 1, 2008 5:21 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Vroom Vroom...

Fast and the Furious Dallas.

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates

by slc ranger on Aug 1, 2008 5:08 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I read this as Josh Hamilton...

at first and my heart skipped a beat.

by ghostofErikThompson on Aug 1, 2008 5:11 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Just one?

I think I would’ve died.

The 40 Trumps All!!!

by thedirkatron on Aug 1, 2008 5:17 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Although...

the thought of Josh Hamilton racing through the streets of Dallas is pretty badass.

by ghostofErikThompson on Aug 1, 2008 5:40 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Haha

do you ever post good Mavs news?

"Sooner or later, prospects kill you, because you hang onto them." - Greggo, 11/22/2005

by Agreen07 on Aug 1, 2008 5:27 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Searching my memory...

Anyway, I have so little emotion invested in the NBA anymore.

Sometimes I worry that a Rangers ascendancy would do the same thing, but baseball still feels too much like meritocracy and great storytelling.

Go Strangers.

by hightowersmith on Aug 1, 2008 7:18 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

No drag racing isn't like VIck

But it can get you killed. Ask Bobby Phills family if drag racing is a good idea.

by texnykazrus on Aug 1, 2008 5:31 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I believe Josh said it best.

“Is crazy mang”

by LiamP on Aug 1, 2008 5:56 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

http://droppage.theticket.com/joshhowardcrazyman.mp3

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Stuff-You-Need-Brett-Favre-action-figure-bench?urn=nfl,93739

by BudLight on Aug 1, 2008 5:58 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Your Mavs suck.

Josh Hamilton is better than you.

by Longhorn on Aug 1, 2008 7:03 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Who's your bandwagon team this year?

Have you decided yet, or do you wait until, say, the All-Star break to pick the strongest and most popular horse?

The 40 Trumps All!!!

by thedirkatron on Aug 1, 2008 7:31 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

huh?

Josh Hamilton is better than you.

by Longhorn on Aug 1, 2008 9:29 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

oh, i got it

you’re still upset. That’s okay.

Josh Hamilton is better than you.

by Longhorn on Aug 1, 2008 9:38 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Upset about what?

I was wasn’t angry the C’s “won”.

Just wondering which bandwagon you’re gonna jump on next year after you had so much fun hopping on board with the C’s this year.

The 40 Trumps All!!!

by thedirkatron on Aug 1, 2008 11:19 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

lol

that’s all you got?

You’re slipping son.

Josh Hamilton is better than you.

by Longhorn on Aug 1, 2008 11:54 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Aw, yah! Thanks, dawg!

I mean… Wait. Huh?

I don’t even know what I’m supposed to be angry about.

I really don’t.

I can’t refute an accusation I don’t understand.

Enlighten me, oh master of the bandwagon jump.

The 40 Trumps All!!!

by thedirkatron on Aug 1, 2008 11:59 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

enlighten you on what?

about the fact you don’t know what you’re talking about? You do a fairly good job of that yourself. But, I’m sure you glow in the fact that you think you know people. If that helps you sleep at night, go right ahead and make your baseless assumptions. You already do that about different types of people anyways, so, continue…make yourself feel better with your silly rhetoric.

Josh Hamilton is better than you.

by Longhorn on Aug 2, 2008 1:43 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Man, I have no idea what you're talking about

I was just trying to have a little light-hearted fun talking some trash about how you seemed to hop on the Celtics bandwagon pretty hard last year, but now I’m just lost.

Are you dumb or just weird?

The 40 Trumps All!!!

by thedirkatron on Aug 2, 2008 3:38 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs