Normal Responsibilites and Consequences

[MsProudSooner]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-wojnarowski_chris_herren_heather_basketball_junkie_celtics_052111

I think this paragraph from the article is a good description of the source of a lot of elite athlete's problems.

“Chris missed out on the things that I had as a kid: a job, a normal high school life. From an early age, Chris didn’t have normal responsibilities and consequences. It made his fall even harder. He was a runaway train from the beginning, and basketball became something that prolonged the escape, prolonged a pseudo reality that wasn’t the real world.”

 

[jbopitz]

Very good read. Thanks

 

[trueou]

One would almost admire his wife until you get to this quote: "He ended up back in his hometown, broke, life in freefall, shooting up with his own children fastened into car seats."

What does that mean? Was he driving? Was she driving while he shot up?

It seems to have turned out well. But she did not do good by her kids. Her first duty is to protect them not enable her worthless (at the time) husband.

 

[sperry]

Doing illegal drugs in Turkey and Iran seems pretty ballsy. They seem to be the type of place that would behead you for having cocaine.

 

[GParker]

Good read. Thanks for posting.