This is scary -- please, JVG, don't be a Mase Man

[xiki]

Anthony Mason and JVG? I hope they are incompatible!

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/ba...p-106798c.html

Bucks might cut ties with Mason soon

Anthony Mason could be on the move again. Unsuccessful in their attempts to trade the veteran forward, the Milwaukee Bucks are thinking about releasing him, according to a league source.

Mason, the former Knick from Queens, is scheduled to earn about $10 million over the next two years. But the Bucks are willing to buy out the final two seasons of Mason's four-year contract because the team is trying to rebuild. Mason, who will turn 37 in December and could be a disruptive presence on a young team, is no longer in Milwaukee's plans. Parting ways with Mason would follow a pattern the Bucks started in February when they traded Ray Allen to Seattle for Gary Payton. Since then, Milwaukee has traded Sam Cassell to Minnesota and Payton, a free agent, signed with the Lakers. Also, GM Ernie Grunfeld joined the Wizards and Bucks head coach George Karl was fired. Don Cronson, Mason's long-time agent, would neither confirm nor deny that his client was about to become a free agent again. "Anthony is under contract with the Milwaukee Bucks," Cronson said. "And until something happens, he expects to be in training camp with them."

[rothdaniel]

I would take Anthony Mason as a role player. A big bruising rebounder to spot Yao and play some PF

[Deuce]

I don't want Anthony Mason on this team. He is a trouble maker and his game is not good enough to warrant taking on the risk of Mason being a cancer on this team.

[dbigfeet]

Originally posted by Deuce I don't want Anthony Mason on this team. He is a trouble maker and his game is not good enough to warrant taking on the risk of Mason being a cancer on this team.

AMEN

[xiki]

JVG wouldn't want him, would he? Please say, 'No, he would not want him.'

[Mr. Clutch]

I want him!

[Another Brother]

A big man that has handles, passion and attitude? I'll take'em.

[Htownhero]

02-03 MIL 32.6mpg .486% 6.40rpg 3.2apg 7.2 ppg

If he comes cheap, I'll take him every day of the week and twice on Sunday!

[rockergordon]

Someone explain why he disrupts team chemistry.

[Rockets34Legend]

I would take him. He might disrupt chemistry, but you know JVG isn't going to tolerate crap from Mason if he is going to be on a disciplined team. He could help Yao out for the boards and his passing is essential.

[CriscoKidd]

For a short term deal I would take a gamble on him. You could always cut him if he doesn't work out.

Other than Mooch, I wouldn't want to give up anything for him in trade though.

Low risk(little money involved, can be cut at a moment's notice), high reward(the bruising enforcer pf some have been craving).

[xiki]

If cut he would be a FA, signing with whatever team for minimum.

He'd cost nothing -- but soul.

[xlr817]

Originally posted by nWo34Life I would take him. He might disrupt chemistry, but you know JVG isn't going to tolerate crap from Mason if he is going to be on a disciplined team. He could help Yao out for the boards and his passing is essential.

Good point! I'm not a big fan of him, but he can help under JVG!

[SamFisher]

Where in this article does it say he's interested? The guy is nba cancer, everybody knows that. Maybe Riley will be dumb enough to reclaim him, but that's it; mason only played briefly for van gundy and then he traded his ass to charlotte anyway.

[SamFisher]

Originally posted by rockergordon Someone explain why he disrupts team chemistry.

Well, he dominates the ball by dribbbling, like moochie, and apparently his teammates don't like him; oh, and then there's the small matter of his off court problems


MASON, ANTHONY
Charlotte Hornets forward Anthony Mason was arrested Monday night and charged with battering a police officer and inciting a riot of 100 people in the city's French Quarter. According to New Orleans police spokesman Joseph Narcisse, the the 6-8, 250-pound Mason was charged with battery of police, inciting a riot and resisting arrest after a crowd of people pelted officers with bottles. The incident took place shortly after 10 p.m. EDT on the party block Bourbon Street, where two officers assigned to the French Quarter intervened between two groups of men engaged in an argument. According to Narcisse, Mason without provocation struck one of the officers and resisted arrest before police sprayed him in the eyes with pepper spray. Unfazed, Mason continued to resist, then tried to run from the officers who attempted to apprehend him. While being handcuffed, Mason still resisted and began yelling to the crowd for help while screaming racial epithets, Narcisse said. Mason's pleas resulted in officers being pelted with bottles and other debris from a hostile crowd of some 100 people as they retreated with Mason to the 8th District station, police said. Mason was escorted to Charity Hospital to have his eyes flushed and then to central lockup for booking. The officers were not injured, Narcisse said.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news/20000704/masonarr.html
Anthony Mason says his brush with the law in New Orleans earlier this week will be his last -- even though he said he was just a victim of circumstance. New Orleans police said officers were trying to separate two groups of men arguing over women when the 6-foot-8, 270-pound Mason hit one officer and began rallying the crowd. ``If I had thrown punches, I think I would have got hit back because the police had their batons out,'' Mason said. ``There were thousands and thousands of women there, so for that to come up is preposterous. And if two groups were fighting, one wasn't my group. And anyone who knows me knows I would never yell for help.'' It's the fourth time Mason has faced charges -- all the others have been dropped -- since he became a Hornet in 1996. The team recently warned him not to get in any more embarrassing situations, and Charlotte vice president Bob Bass expressed disappointment in the latest arrest regardless of whether Mason is guilty. His agent, Don Cronson, said he has encouraged Mason to change his lifestyle in an effort to stay out of trouble. Cronson has told him to hire a bodyguard for security and stop going out so much. Mason is frequently seen at Charlotte clubs and restaurants and has front-row tickets to the WNBA Charlotte Sting games, where he often sits and signs autographs for kids.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news/ap/...ets-mason.html
Anthony Mason of the Charlotte Hornets was arrested late Saturday on two counts of third-degree rape of two teen-age girls. Mason was arrested after five hours of questioning by detectives. Mason, 31, and a friend, William Duggins, 24, were each charged with two counts of statutory rape in the attack on two girls, 14 and 15, on Friday night, said Mary DeBourbon, a spokeswoman for Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown. Mason and his friend met the sisters at a charity basketball game at York College in Queens, said the spokeswoman. The Daily News reported in its Sunday editions that the alleged attack took place in a limousine after the game. After the girls were treated at a Queens hospital, nurses reported the suspected sexual attack to police. Mason, a former New York Knicks star who was born and raised in Queens, was at a small party at a private home in the Laurelton section Friday night with about 10 other people, according to his lawyer, Frank Rothman. He said the two girls told police Mason and one other person at the party had sex with them. Mason was traded by the Knicks to Charlotte in 1996. He pleaded guilty in November 1997 to disorderly conduct after scuffling with a police officer in Times Square in July 1996. He paid a $250 fine and apologized to the police. He originally faced felony assault charges that could have brought up to seven years in prison.
http://www.nando.net/newsroom/ap/bkb.../cha23180.html
Mason was arrested and charged with third-degree assault after an altercation this morning outside a bar in Manhattan. He maintains he was acting as a peacemaker in the alleged incident and did nothing wrong. "I have a bull's-eye on my back," Mason said. "I'm supposed to be a hometown kid, not that I should be favored or anything, but I shouldn't be a target, either." The New York native spent this afternoon in jail before being arraigned in a Manhattan courtroom on the misdemeanor charge. He must appear March 13, which falls during a stretch of four days off for his team, the Charlotte Hornets. According to a police spokesman, Mason and four other men were involved in a fight with three other men at approximately 4:30 a.m. EST at Perks Bar and Restaurant. The three men allegedly assaulted by Mason's group were hospitalized with minor injuries. According to police, Mason was not injured. "I'm not going to run and hide from it," Mason said. "I didn't feel I did anything wrong, except probably be there. Hindsight is great if you go into a trouble spot but it wasn't like that. It's not a wild raucous bar or nothing like that where people get drunk. I've been going there for years and never had a problem. I still haven't had a problem." Mason has had trouble in his hometown in the past. However, he maintains that he did not violate any laws this time. Mason, 33, played five years with the New York Knicks before being traded to Charlotte in July 1996. He was arrested in New York during All-Star Weekend in 1998 on a statutory rape charge. He later agreed to a plea bargain in which the more serious charges were dropped and was sentenced to 200 hours of community service.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news/200...masarrest.html
Anthony Mason, traded by the New York Knicks to Charlotte earlier this month, was arrested Wednesday and charged with assault, menacing and disorderly conduct after a dispute on a midtown street corner, police said. Mason, 29, was "involved in a verbal dispute with a few unidentified people," at about 3 a.m., officer Sarah Carpenter, a department spokeswoman said. He "became disruptive and disorderly," when police tried to restore order, and then resisted arrest, she said. Carpenter said Mason was finally arrested after causing three officers minor injuries, but had no further details. The incident occurred nearly a year to the day after Mason was involved in an altercation at the China Club, an upper West Side hangout. He was also accused of hitting a woman at the same club in April 1995.
http://www.nando.net/newsroom/ap/bkb.../nyk62346.html
Three patrons of a Manhattan nightclub have sued New York Knicks forward Anthony Mason and three employees of the club for $54 million over a brawl last summer. Alice Kupferberg, the plaintiffs' lawyer, said the fracas began with arguing, shoving and hitting at Mason's table at the China Club at about 3:45 a.m. on July 25. She said her clients, among a party of eight, tried to leave when the melee spilled over to their table. One of them, Hasan Kurti, 24, was cut just under his left eye with a broken champagne bottle, and another, Hatixha "Gigi" Zherka, was pushed over a table, Kupferberg said Tuesday. Bouncers rushed in and roughed up the group of eight as they tried to leave, the lawyer said. She said Mason, 30, joined the bouncers in assaulting her clients.
http://www.nando.net/newsroom/ap/bkb.../nyk44676.html
Charlotte Hornets forward Anthony Mason and Carolina Panthers fullback William Floyd are banned from a comedy club after scuffling there last week. The two were sitting in the same row of the VIP section at the Comedy Zone Friday night when someone threw a glass from the area occupied by Floyd and other unidentified Panthers. The glass landed near Mason and his friends. Mason, 6-foot-8, 250 pounds, and Floyd, 6-1, 230, confronted each other. "I guess they got into a fight," club owner Patrick Schwenke said. "Most of my patrons took off running." The club's security guards broke it up within two to three minutes. Police were called, but the fighting had stopped by the time they arrived. No arrests were made, and damage to the club was minor. Mason was a regular at the club, Schwenke said, showing up often for the black comedy nights the club sponsors Tuesday nights. Floyd attended only occasionally. Meanwhile, Mason awaits a hearing May 22 in New York on misdemeanor assault charges. He and four New York men were accused of assaulting three men in an early-morning fight outside a Harlem restaurant and bar Feb. 26. Mason claims he was attempting to be a peacemaker during the problem.
http://www.sportingnews.com/nba/arti...09/235324.html
3/01
Anthony Mason and Duane Causwell were sent back to Miami by coach Pat Riley on Monday as punishment for arriving late to a team meeting. Mason and Causwell showed up late for a team meeting in Minnesota on Sunday night. Riley had said the meeting was one ``you didn't want to be late for.'' ``Mase is not here today,'' Riley said before Monday night's game against the Timberwolves. ``Mase was sent home with Duane Causwell. The goal of the meeting, on my part, was to get their attention. There's been some slippage.'' Riley added that both Mason, a starter averaging 15.8 points, and Causwell would be fined, but said their one-game absence is not a suspension.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news/ap/...unishment.html
7/01
NBA star Anthony Mason has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a hotel and is under investigation, police said Friday. The woman says Mason assaulted her this week in Tinton Falls, about 50 miles from Trenton, Mason lawyer Frank Rothman said. Mason has not been charged, he added, but authorities are looking into the latest accusation against a player who has had previous run-ins with the law. Tinton Falls police said the woman filed a complaint against Mason and two other men, but did not provide additional details. In February 2000, Mason and some friends were arrested following a brawl outside a Manhattan nightclub. Mason received probation and community service following a 1989 gun possession charge in New York.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news/ap/...n-assault.html
Based on a Sports Illustrated poll of more than 70 NBA players, these are the league's verbal villains:
#10. Anthony Mason, forward, Hornets He uses his tongue as a defensive weapon. "I say whatever I feel is going to get to the person," says Mason. "I might come up to someone who's red-hot and try to get into his head." "We've had some choice words," says Washington's notoriously polite Calbert Cheaney.
http://cnnsi.com/basketball/nba/even...rashtalkb.html


Guys, there's a reason why he's being released, It's not like Milwaukee has all kinds of awesome rebounding badass Power Forwards to take his place.

Mason is a negative, accordingly they are performing addition by subtraction.

[CriscoKidd]

Originally posted by xiki He'd cost nothing -- but soul.

Well that's a better return than a donut I guess.

You could just sign the singer dude for the minimum and it would more than offset the difference:

[Matador]

Originally posted by Htownhero 02-03 MIL 32.6mpg .486% 6.40rpg 3.2apg 7.2 ppg If he comes cheap, I'll take him every day of the week and twice on Sunday!

Are you being sarcastic? If so you forgot your smilie face. For 33 minutes played those numbers are pretty poor.

[Tonaaayyyy]

he reminds me of motay.. so we dont need him!

[rockergordon]

damn... with that resume, i mean rap sheet, i bet the blazers are beating on his door.

i usually don't care about players' brushes with the law. but his history is awful.

he ain't worth it.

[Deckard]

Wow! Posted altogether like that looks pretty bad... the guy must have tried pretty hard to get in so much ****. Has an excuse for every one, too.

He's doesn't remind me of Taylor at all. Taylor is a pussycat.