Tuesday, May 18, 2010

"Now coach, you can't send him to the NBA. Let me tell you something now, coach. Did you know that they have guns in the locker rooms in the NBA? Coach, seriously, he's just a kid!" - David Letterman



When David Letterman told Butler University Coach Brad Stevens not to let sophomore player Gordon Hayward go to the NBA because they have "guns in the locker room" he wasn't joking.

When it comes to the NBA, it's fairly obvious to notice the progression of players in the 1970s compared to players in the 2000s. The general amount of "swagga" that players carry with them these days is certainly sometimes appalling and most of started with the rugged play of former Pacers star, Ron Artest and his brawl with the Pistons a couple years back. Of course people never would have thought that by now there'd be players such as Gilbert Arenas who would be bringing firearms into the locker room at halftime of an actual NBA game. It's blatenly obvious that things in the NBA have gotten out of control and I think that league officials need to crack down on this mindset of their athletes who think that they can just get away with whatever they feel like doing. These players are not good role models for the kids who look up to them, and it is certain that they have negative impacts on the people that watch them. Just the videos to see what I'm talking about.







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