I think Kiszla has put himself into the running for Prince of Douchebaggery '07 with this slice of filth. Now this might be a slight stereotype, but judging from the looks of Kiszla, please forgive me if I'm wrong, but I'm gonna go out an a limb and say that he's no expert on "the hippity hop" or whatever these kids are calling it these days. What Kiszla does in this article, is draw(actually fails at drawing) a freaking bizarre correlation between J.R. Smith's recent car crash in which his friend died, and the "hip-hop lifestyle" that Smith has "embraced." Let's dissect the gold:
"The basketball career of Nuggets guard J.R. Smith is speeding down the highway to Hades."
Sweet jesus that is lame. Not sure if that's what they teach you in J-school, since I'm a dropout myself, but a more honest beginning for Kiszla would go like: "I like Adam Morrison because he listens to white people music, unlike these damned hippity hoppers who are destroying the game."
"And that's the least of his worries. A funeral awaits a friend, while the law sifts through the wreckage of a deadly car accident."
"What's infuriating is Smith tried so hard to live the lyrics of a rap song that he could now become tragic inspiration for a rhyme about a professional baller who threw it all away."
So...by getting in a major traffic accident, in which unfortunately a good friend of his died, J.R. Smith was simply portraying what he hears in Jay Z, 50 Cent, and Dr. Dre's music???
"Born to a good home, raised by two loving parents and made rich as a teenager by the NBA, Smith was so desperate for the street cred glorified by hip-hop culture that he became a poseur, thinking if he wore baggy shorts half off his bum, then maybe Carmelo Anthony, Kenyon Martin, and teammates who came up from mean streets would accept him."
r(eireaoihgr!#$h57 God knows that those khaki cargos and spray bottle of Nautica cologne I carried gave me sick screet cred in grade school. The straight to NBA/automatic social deviant case is a loose one. I'd say LeBron has handled his money/life well...Garnett, even Kobe and Melo. Sure there are golden examples of players getting craploads of money at a young age and behaving poorly... Elijah Dukes, Mike Tyson, and Doc Gooden probably being the best one.
"Smith is a gangsta wannabe who got lost in a dangerous game of make-believe."
4y3jktigu34qtq...Am I missing something? Have they concluded that the cause of J.R. missing the stop sign last Saturday was due to that venomous rap music? Or was he just speeding? Just speeding? OK. So it wasn't cuz the new T-Pain album makes you ignore stop signs? You confuse me you crazy bastard Mark Kiszla. Keep it coming.
"Feigning cool to hide insecurity, Smith found trouble more ways than you can count during the past nine months. He got suspended for a brawl in a game at New York. He got in a fight with teammate Jamal Sampson that the Nuggets kept hush-hush. He got booted from the playoffs by coach George Karl."
Well since I learned to read and count, (thank you hooked on monkey phonics) I count three accounts that you give (4 including this ACCIDENT), certainly three or four is not as high as I can count (I hope). The first of which is defensible in my opinion. In the Knicks/Nuggets brawl seen here, I can't say I would react differently, what Mardy Collins did was totally out of line and is very reminiscent of the Todd Bertuzzi hit on Steve Moore that paralyzed him. Collins came after his neck hard and Smith was fortunate to get up, I think we can forgive him for being a tad bit pissed off.
"But is he sorry?"
"Although the young player once amassed 27 points on his driving record in less than a year and a New Jersey prosecutor vows an investigation to determine whether Smith should face more serious criminal charges, there was no mention of an apology in the team statement released Tuesday."
Of course he's sorry and of course there was no team statement, the man just lost a good friend in an accident that HE is the cause of, and of course Smith is more than likely terribly shaken. Do you really think a team statement from J.R. is the ultimate show a remorse? Have some damn sense. If I was in Bell's family and I had just lost a loved one, why would a team statement have any weight whatsoever?
It's true, Smith has been far from a model teammate or citizen, racking up 27 points on his license in less than a year. It's just frustrating that Kiszla doesn't emphasize his reckless driving record, and instead blames the hip hop lifestyle, which would be an allbeit dumb argument, but still an argument if he used something to freaking back it up. He keeps reiterating throughout the article that Smith is "white" by all standards of society: growing up "down the clean working-class street from where Bruce Springsteen grew up," and learning the urban life from shows like "The Wire" on HBO. The most frustrating thing is that Kiszla never draws any connections with the poisonous hip hop lifestyle, he just slams it without regard. I guess in Kiszla's eyes, If you wear baggy shorts and listen to Jay Z, you get what you deserve if you die in a car accident.
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