Someone on your favorite team smokes marijuana. That’s simply based on the probabilities and what we know of NBA life. Regardless of how you, in particular, feel about the sweet stuff, that’s simply the likeliest scenario. Maybe it’s a bench scrub, maybe it’s a superstar. But what we know of marijuana use in the NBA is that it is rampant in isolated situations if not habitual, and fairly common in the least.
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- cygnus x-1 - Aug 28, 2010 at 2:55 PM
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hey if it had been his first time people still would have been upset but would have cut him some slack. but 3 times shows he just doesn’t get it.playing on a young rebuilding team was the perfect oppertunity to show he had what took to be a star player but he chose to do drugs and be a inconsistant player instead. doesn’t matter if it was pot or not he chose that instead of trying to be a better player and to help his team get better. he may very well turn out to be a good player on another team but the pacers can’t take that chance.he had 3 of them and made his choice so time to move on.
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- Travis - Aug 29, 2010 at 1:27 AM
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I’m a lifelong Pacers fan. I could care less about Rush getting high. I like him as a player, as frustratingly difficult as it is to watch him at times. He’s already capable of being a valuable role player, not his fault the team sucks so hard he’s got to play 30+ minutes a night, not unlike Troy Murphy.
Bob Kravitz knows absolutely nothing about Pacers basketball (or sports in general) and never has. He takes his cues from fan forums. This has not been a good summer for Pacers PR (the Collison trade aside). Stephenson, now Rush, and worst of all, a 30ish million dollar taxpayer bailout for the stadium. I don’t fault anyone who’s “had enough” from the Pacers, however shortsighted I think they may be. It isn’t fair, but if a player does ANYTHING against the rules the people who can’t name more than three players on the roster and haven’t seen a game since the brawl will light their torches and grab their pitchforks. The only solution in this fair weather city to end all fair weather cities is to start winning, and now.
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- Bryan - Aug 30, 2010 at 2:30 AM
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I’ve been a Pacers fan my entire life, and I have been paying very close attention to the team over the past several years. I have seen Rush improve over the past two season, and I do believe that he will develop into a pretty decent player sometime over the next couple of years. I read the article by Bob Kravitz, and I share the same views as him for the most part. I don’t care that Brandon Rush smokes pot, I don’t care if most of our team smokes pot. I think alcohol should be illegal before pot should be. Having said this, if you play in the NBA and are going to smoke pot, do it in the offseason. To get caught once could just be bad luck/timing as far as when you get drug tested. Get caught twice, you are really pushing your luck. Get caught a third time, and the only explanation is that you simply don’t care enough about your team and city. He knows he is going to get tested because the season is about to start, and he doesn’t care. That’s not the kind of person I want on a team that I’ve followed my whole life. If we were really short on wing players and Rush was substantially better, I say keep him and make sure he is working harder. That’s not the case though. We have an abundance of wings and a lack of legitimate PFs. The Pacers and all of the fans have just been waiting for something to make one of our wings stand out as the player to trade. In my mind, this is that something. I wish him good luck in the rest of his career. I just hope it isn’t in Indy.
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- Bryan - Aug 30, 2010 at 2:31 AM
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I’ve been a Pacers fan my entire life, and I have been paying very close attention to the team over the past several years. I have seen Rush improve over the past two season, and I do believe that he will develop into a pretty decent player sometime over the next couple of years. I read the article by Bob Kravitz, and I share the same views as him for the most part. I don’t care that Brandon Rush smokes pot, I don’t care if most of our team smokes pot. I think alcohol should be illegal before pot should be. Having said this, if you play in the NBA and are going to smoke pot, do it in the offseason. To get caught once could just be bad luck/timing as far as when you get drug tested. Get caught twice, you are really pushing your luck. Get caught a third time, and the only explanation is that you simply don’t care enough about your team and city. He knows he is going to get tested because the season is about to start, and he doesn’t care. That’s not the kind of person I want on a team that I’ve followed my whole life. If we were really short on wing players and Rush was substantially better, I say keep him and make sure he is working harder. That’s not the case though. We have an abundance of wings and a lack of legitimate PFs. The Pacers and all of the fans have just been waiting for something to make one of our wings stand out as the player to trade. In my mind, this is that something. I wish him good luck in the rest of his career. I just hope it isn’t in Indy.
