The LaVar Ball Memorial Off-Court Thread

[Contentious C]

Anthony Edwards is having the world's ickiest "How much does a banana cost, Michael?  Eight dollars?" moment right now.

[Brian Fowler]

Canada has denied entrance to Miles Bridges. 

[Tabe]

Rajon Rondo was caught riding dirty... 

 

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/39419497/ex-nba-guard-rajon-rondo-arrested-gun-drug-charges-indiana

[Travis Sheldon]

1 hour ago, Tabe said:

Rajon Rondo was caught riding dirty... 

 

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/39419497/ex-nba-guard-rajon-rondo-arrested-gun-drug-charges-indiana

He was on his way to Irsay's place.

What's the problem?

[Dolfan in NYC]

Detroit's Isaiah Stewart reportedly punched Phoenix's Drew Eubanks in the tunnels in the Suns' arena.  

The league will investigate.  And Barstool, I'm guessing, is contacting every security guard in the arena to sell them the footage.

[Dolfan in NYC]

 

[odessasteps]

 

[RIPPA]

 

[Travis Sheldon]

Sounds like he got the ban hammer for repeatedly betting on himself.

Like he'd bet the under on his stats and then leave a game after a few minutes.

Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, and dumb.

[Joe vs the Algorithm]

1 hour ago, Travis Sheldon said:

Sounds like he got the ban hammer for repeatedly betting on himself.

Like he'd bet the under on his stats and then leave a game after a few minutes.

Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, and dumb.

He apparently tipped off other bettors that he was going to leave a couple games early, so they would know to take the under on his stat prop bet.

i’m guessing “other bettors” means his bookie.

[Brian Fowler]

As well as betting on multiple games through a proxy, including thrice betting against his own team (good news is he didn't play in those games.)

It turns out the upside to legal sports betting is that people get to see "that's weird, that's the second time in three months that there were huge payouts on prop bet unders for some nobody on the Raptors. Huh, he left both those games early because of health reasons. That's weird."

[Dolfan in NYC]

This all said, I'll guarantee you, there are some 13th & 14th members of rosters around the Association who desperately want this story to go away.  

[Joe vs the Algorithm]

Competition for worst tattoo in the NBA may be over forever.

Lol, first photo I saw of it was taken close up… and I thought the lettering said “Dade One” or something like that.  Didn’t realize until later that lower portions of letters are on black, not red.

That had to be painful.  Apparently, the tattoo artist used some sort of numbing crème, but still…. 

[Travis Sheldon]

Wow, a one of one.

Should get him graded.

[Log]

You know how, legally, a bartender can be held responsible for over serving a person? I feel like there needs to be something like that for tattoo artists. Like, whoever did that should have to go to court and prove why they shouldn’t be in jail for crimes against humanity. 

[Dolfan in NYC]

15 hours ago, Travis Sheldon said:

Wow, a one of one.

Should get him graded.

Nice to finally meet you Don West. 

 

[Tabe]

There's a video going around Tik Tok of Joel Embiid taking warmup shots out of bounds to intentionally bump into an MSG security guard. Repeatedly. And then 76ers staff harass the guard as if he's somehow doing something wrong. Bunch of turds. 

[Zimbra]

Big Baby Davis got 40 months in prison for trying to defraud the NBA health plan.

[Dolfan in NYC]

LaMelo Ball is being sued by a young fan's family who came to team function and ended up with a broken foot:

Go to YT and look up Lamelo Ball driving and you'll see this story is almost assuredly 100% true.

[Dolfan in NYC]

And if you've been watching Clipped (and judging by the ratings, you haven't!) this should come as no surprise, but...

JJ Reddick is being accused of calling a player on the women's bb team the n-word while they were at Duke. 

[Tabe]

Six former players are suing FSU head coach Leonard Hamilton for $250k each for undelivered NIL money:

https://footballscoop.com/news/six-former-florida-state-players-are-suing-their-coach-over-unpaid-nil-promises

[Dolfan in NYC]

A 55 year old Texas man has been arrested for stalking Caitlin Clark.   He had been sending threatening and sexual explicit messages and images and caused her to change her public appearances for fear of being hurt by him. 

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/13/g-s1-42484/man-arrested-stalking-caitlin-clark

 

 

[Zimbra]

There was an arrest today in the Jontay Porter gambling case so we got court documents filled with Jontay's texts of him basically saying "THE POINT SHAVING IS GOING REALLY WELL YOU GUYS," sometimes in the middle of games.

[Brian Fowler]

5 hours ago, Zimbra said:

There was an arrest today in the Jontay Porter gambling case so we got court documents filled with Jontay's texts of him basically saying "THE POINT SHAVING IS GOING REALLY WELL YOU GUYS," sometimes in the middle of games.

A real criminal mastermind.

[Tabe]

On 1/13/2025 at 11:48 AM, Dolfan in NYC said:

A 55 year old Texas man has been arrested for stalking Caitlin Clark.   He had been sending threatening and sexual explicit messages and images and caused her to change her public appearances for fear of being hurt by him. 

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/13/g-s1-42484/man-arrested-stalking-caitlin-clark

 

 

It's a sad reflection of how I view things that the only thing I'm surprised by here is that it took this long for a stalker story/arrest involving her.