Here is a link http://www.maximonline.com/sports/articles/article_3581.html about ALL AMERICAN bastards article in sports. They were listing the all time most craziest people, and of course Mad Max came up..heres what they said in case you have not seen it... Basketball: Vernon Maxwell If Seattle Supersonic Vernon Maxwell ever asks you to go to the weight room, run away. Fast. Don’t take our word for it, just ask Carl Herrera or Gary Payton. When Maxwell was with the Houston Rockets in 1994, he once swung a free weight at Herrera, who needed 30 stitches to close the gash in his head. Mad Max reprised that scene during practice this season in Seattle, brandishing iron against Gary Payton, who picked up a chair in self-defense. Horace Grant, who rushed in to break up the scuffle, suffered a shoulder injury in the fray. Hey, way to take one for the team! You might say that impulse control is not Vernon Maxwell’s specialty. In 1995 he was hit with one of the biggest fines in NBA history—$20,000—for going into the stands in Portland and punching out a 35-year-old home-products salesman. That same year he was arrested for allegedly waving a loaded pistol at a motorist who honked at his Porsche. And while Maxwell scored the most points in the history of the University of Florida, don’t look for him in the record books. Due to a series of shifty drug-, money-, and alcohol-related offenses, the NCAA doesn’t recognize a single basket he scored in his last two college seasons. Norm Sloan, the Gators’ coach at the time, is no fan either. Sloan still suspects that Maxwell fixed a game after his star player failed to score a single basket in the second half of a two-point loss to the University of Tennessee. “It’s amazing that no one has killed him or he hasn’t ended up in prison,” says Rich Lord, host of Sports Talk on KILT-AM in Houston. “I’m sure his mother is very proud.” Backup: Karl Malone I was suprised when i read this, I didnt even know MAD MAX did all these things!
Heck yeah, Max gave us some toughness. He wasn't taking any gruff from anyone. I only wish we had a guy with attitude like that these days. A Kenyon Martin or Laimbeer is what we need. Nice guys finish last, just ask Mad Max!
I'm not talking necessarily as violent as Mad Max, but we need someone with as much toughness and tenacity as the little guy did. He was really a spark plug in the first championship season.
I was always a big fan of Mad MAx and I had a chance to meet him at a San Antonio club and we talked for a while... he seemed like the nicest guy... I don't condone some of his behaviour (although Gary Payton probably had it coming and that fan was a jerk) but you can't expect to get away with that stuff... The guy obviously has a bad temper, it's what got him kicked off the Rockets... But when he is not pissed he seems pretty cool... He told me that he missed the team. And he seemed really genuine... Some people just have bad tempers and sometimes little things can set it off but he certainly gave us a warriors mentality when he was on the court... And that is something I wish we had more of on this team
