When the Washington Wizards won the franchise’s first playoff game in 18 years on Sunday, fans openly wept in the stands.
When the Wizards won again two nights later to even the first round series with the Chicago Bulls at two games apiece, momentum was theirs.
All was good, right? Wrong.
Enter what is dragging down the National Basketball Association – childishness and selfishness.
Coach Eddie Jordan had enough of reserve forward-center Kwame Brown and suspended him for not only the remainder of the first round, but for the rest of the season.
“Coach [Eddie] Jordan and I met Kwame this morning. The three of us felt it was best for both the Wizards organization and Kwame that he no longer participate in the remainder of the playoffs,” Wizards president of basketball operations Ernie Grunfeld said in a statement.
Brown was benched for most of game three of the series, and he was excused from practice on Sunday because of a stomach virus. Yeah, right. He was absent from shootaround and Tuesday’s game because of an illness, team officials said.
Jordan was sick of Brown, and the reverse is also probably true.
The selfish young man torpedoes his chance to continue in postseason and is helping sink his teammates and his franchise down with him.
Pitiful.
Meanwhile, in Denver. Minutes after the Nuggets lost a heartbreaker at home to San Antonio to fall behind 3-1 in that series, Carmello Anthony tells the media “We didn’t go to me enough.” That was the problem. According to Anthony, there was not enough me.
The SportsEye wants an NBA franchise in St. Louis and genuinely thinks the league will again see golden days.
However, until the attitudes of this league’s players take a turn for the better, America will continue to tune them out and view them unfairly.