Tony Allen beat-up OJ Mayo over gambling debt

[Dem Coltz]

Seriously? So if a guy at work bets you $50 (that is probably fairly equivalent to a $1,000 for an NBA player) and won't pay, you get in a fight with him at work?

They weren't at work, they were flying on a plane after a game. Not really the same thing as your office during business hours. Do you have card games for money at your work while you're open? The question you asked just really cuts to the core of what kind of person someone is. If someone screws you out of money they owe you, do you fight them or not? Another question - if you decide to gamble with big money but aren't willing to pay what you owe, do you really think the gambler you owe is going to handle his business like a square with a 9 to 5? Should Allen have called the police to recover his gambling winnings? LOL. Please go to Vegas and lay money on a team that loses, then taunt the bookie that you aren't going to pay. Let me know beforehand so I can send flowers to your loved ones.

 

[DenverSooner]

In the case of Sidney and Bailey's altercation, and Bailey stuck his foot out...I would be the better man and just go out the other way.

if the guy didn't pay me the $50(in which I would have paid him) and then started taunting me...A lesson would be taught.

This is for Tony Allen :clap

You would lose a job over $50? What do you tell you next potential employer? Well I lost my temper and hit my coworker over $50 but he owed me the money and taunted me. Good luck with that but I suspect ultimately you would be the one learning the lessons.

 

[bgrch1350]

You would lose a job over $50? What do you tell you next potential employer? Well I lost my temper and hit my coworker over $50 but he owed me the money and taunted me. Good luck with that but I suspect ultimately you would be the one learning the lessons.

They weren't at work!!!!!! Get that thru your head. I wouldn't be gambling at work...problem solve there. So I wouldn't lose a job.

 

[Dem Coltz]

The bottom line is a man who bets money but doesn't pay when he loses doesn't deserve to be treated like a man. His name rings with infamy and his word is meaningless. He should have no friends.

"My name is my name!"

 

[DenverSooner]

How many people over 30 years old think it is remotely acceptable for these guys to get in a fight?

I have to believe that all the people saying it is justified by Mayo's clearly wrong actions are pretty young and have virtually zero work experience.

 

[One More Rebound]

Maybe he knocked some sense into Mayo...

 

[seniorsooner]

How many people over 30 years old think it is remotely acceptable for these guys to get in a fight?

I have to believe that all the people saying it is justified by Mayo's clearly wrong actions are pretty young and have virtually zero work experience.

Do I think it's acceptable? No. Honestly I don't feel that gambling should be allowed in team facilities/flights/etc. However, I think comparing any of our work places to the NBA is comparing apples & oranges. In the NBA you have a huge range of different personalities and backgrounds, from Steve Nash to Blake Griffin to Carmelo Anthony to Kenyon Martin to Ron Artest to Chris "Bird Man" Andersen. I bet you don't walk into your office in the morning and have the equivalent of Ron Arest and the Bird Man sitting at their cubicles doing data entry.

 

[DenverSooner]

clearly I am in the minority but I don't get our society when we justify this type of behavior. If you work in a hospital, you have a diverse group of people but people manage to not get into fights. If you work at a large corporation in operations and tavel the country or world going to manufacturing facilities you have a diverse group of people and don't see fights. (When I worked at GM in OKC there was a fight in the plant, GM wanted to terminate the people and the union faught for their jobs)

I just don't buy this nonsense about it is differenct. What it is, is a bunch of spoiled brats that think the rules of society don't apply to them.

 

[campbest]

All you need to know about OJ Mayo:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53ssZaWoWEs[/ame]

 

[playmakr]

All you need to know about OJ Mayo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53ssZaWoWEs

This is when you send in a goon to throw that same ball at his face, Cheney style.

 

[Big Old Booger]

clearly I am in the minority but I don't get our society when we justify this type of behavior. If you work in a hospital, you have a diverse group of people but people manage to not get into fights. If you work at a large corporation in operations and tavel the country or world going to manufacturing facilities you have a diverse group of people and don't see fights. (When I worked at GM in OKC there was a fight in the plant, GM wanted to terminate the people and the union faught for their jobs)

I just don't buy this nonsense about it is differenct. What it is, is a bunch of spoiled brats that think the rules of society don't apply to them.

I agree with you. If I were in charge, I'd mandate no gambling of any sort on company time. When you are traveling, that is considered company time at any corporation. If they had to gamble on the plane, then I'd make everybody play bingo.

We had a few co-workers at a previous employer almost 10 years ago get into a scuffle at work. Both were in the server room (they were windows engineers (NT admins)) and they didn't get along. Next thing you know, servers, and routers are getting knocked over and they are duking it out. Neither was fired but only because their manager kept it very quiet and warned both of them. They were very lucky.

 

[jmizzy4ou]

clearly I am in the minority but I don't get our society when we justify this type of behavior. If you work in a hospital, you have a diverse group of people but people manage to not get into fights. If you work at a large corporation in operations and tavel the country or world going to manufacturing facilities you have a diverse group of people and don't see fights. (When I worked at GM in OKC there was a fight in the plant, GM wanted to terminate the people and the union faught for their jobs)
I just don't buy this nonsense about it is differenct. What it is, is a bunch of spoiled brats that think the rules of society don't apply to them.

I agree with everything that you said except this part. Fights occur on the job all of the time, but you will never see 2 pizza makers fighting on the front of ESPN.com. I do side contract work in the evening and at night. I have done so for over 20 yrs. off and on. I go into various businesses all around Oklahoma, Cleveland, and Canadien Counties. I personally have seen car salesmen fighting on the job( 1 week unpaid suspension), a lawyer and one of the mailroom workers squared off over an allegation of a stolen cellphone charger( don't know what happened because other staff stopped it after some cussing and one push), and mechanics fighting at several of the big car dealerships in OKC....

It happens, and most of the time if no one is killed, you won't read about it. Like BOB said, NBA players aren't your typical employees. I won't even get into the fights that occurred in the field and in the barracks during my 8 yrs of active duty military. Sometimes the leaders would be the ones who organized the fights when they got tired of certain soldiers jawing at each other.....