ESPN Insider has a story on it, but I don't have an account. Sounds like it must have been heroin, coke, or meth...at least judging by the "colorful arms" remark.
Come on bro. I guess you when to Sam correct? I have some friends who also were friends with him and he getting kicked out doesn't surprise me one bit. The guy is an absolute party animal w/questionable character.
for one thing, everytime they show him on tv, he looks stoned. some guys just look like that so i guess thats not a real good indicator. however, i live in OKC and i have talked to numerous people at bars/clubs that have said "awww man, i always see that guy partying, im sad to see him go," etc. even the tv announcers knew how much of a partier he was, cause last week they were like "well, its good to see the birdman back since he is such a fan favorite, known for going out and partying" also, in the past month, he was out for quite a few games with some kind of mysterious "flu" that wouldnt go away. who knows.
doesn't seem fair that they should kick him out of the league for 2 years for a first time offense. is it possible that he had other violations that weren't reported to the media?
No I went to Blinn JC. I said I was surprised what he got kicked out for. I dropped him off to every college game he played. We were best friends in college the time for partying and trust me we did some partying. So I know he likes to go out and have a good time, but did not know he got into anything more serious than smoking. Like I said earlier that is what I would expect it to be for. But he was a great guy and one of the best friends I have ever had in my life. I hate to see this happen to him.
If you are really his friend, give him a call and let him know, he needs to go to a rehab center before anything else. He's no longer in the NBA, "friends" will leave him, women will leave him, and this is a very dangerous time for him. He's 30 years old, and he is at a turning point of his life. If he gets depressed and keeps on using drugs, he will die an awful death. You need to let him know, the NBA life, women, money, glories, regrets and what-could-have-beens, those things aren't important right now. What's important is his life. He needs to live and get off the drugs. If you are truly a friend, give him a call and knock some sense into him.
Duh. It greatly increases your chances of being around other drugs. It's not like pot is available at every grocery store, etc. You kind of have to know a dealer. And dealers of drugs are similar to dealers of cars... several makes and styles available in the inventory.
'Birdman' has colorful past, poignant present By Chris Sheridan ESPN Insider By the time Chris Andersen is eligible to return to the NBA, his arms should be as colorful as those alternate road uniforms he used to wear for the Hornets. There's a fascinating human interest story behind the first player banned from the league for a major drug policy violation since Stanley Roberts in 1999. Andersen is the son of a second-generation Motor Maid, a woman who grew up on Harley-Davidson motorcycles. His mother, Linda, could probably tell you where Sturgis is before she could tell you who Stockton was. She brought young Chris along when she went for her first orchid tattoo, later adding hummingbirds and butterflies, and Andersen returned the favor the first time he had ink injected under his skin. But Andersen spent 3½ of his formative years without his mother. His father, an artist, put him and his sister, Tamie, into a group home when he was 11. It was either that or a military school, because dad was heading off to New York to try to sell his paintings. Linda regained custody after initially being unable to find them and brought them back to rural east Texas, where she would pick 14-year-old Chris up from school on her chopper. Andersen's mom took her Harleys seriously, mind you, because it ran in the family. She says her mother (Andersen's grandmother) was riding the back of a Harley when pregnant with her. Andersen eventually became one of 34 members of the Class of '97 at Iola High School, and after a year and a half of community college, he ditched his letter of commitment to Clyde Drexler's University of Houston Cougars and decided to go for the money by playing professionally in China, where he faced Yao Ming before hardly anyone in America had heard of him. Andersen eventually played minor league ball in North Dakota and New Mexico before the Nuggets saw him in a summer league tryout. Known as "The Birdman," he was a hit with the free-spirited home fans in Denver and later New Orleans and Oklahoma City, and gained some national fame (or shame), by missing his first seven attempts at the dunk contest in Denver last year. (A year earlier, he spiked his hair for the dunk contest in L.A.) Andersen apparently failed a drug test last week, testing positive for one of the so-called "drugs of abuse" (including heroin, cocaine, amphetamines, LSD and PCP) that bring an automatic two-year banishment. No one has said exactly which substance Andersen tested positive for, but the players' union has filed a grievance on his behalf. Citing strict confidentiality rules that have cost high-ranking people their jobs when breached in the past, the union has not even disclosed the grounds for Andersen's appeal. Under league rules, the four-year, $14 million contract Andersen signed over the summer is now null and void. If his dismissal is upheld and he misses two seasons, the Hornets will have first dibs on Andersen should he be reinstated. If they were to want to bring him back, they'd have to tender him a contract at his old salary of $3.5 million. Not to be trite, but it really is a shame that Andersen just threw away more than $12 million. He seemed like a good guy every time I spoke to him. We once discussed the specifics of his tattoos, how one arm was tattooed with the Chinese symbols for good, the other with the symbols for bad. He also had the outlines of a few new tattoos on his arms and shoulders, explaining that it was an ongoing process to have all of the colors filled in. He expected it to take years, but I guess he'll have the extra time for it now.
So...if you wanna clear some cap space, all you need to do is slip some heroin into the guys veins while he's sleepin eh? I think Kandi and Blount will be caught soon...maybe Jerome James as well.
