[theloveofsports.com]Vernon Maxwell

Great basketball career indeed. Now, once again, where is the one about his personal life not being riddled by drugs and the pain of others? About him changing his ways? About being remotely remorseful about the multitude of things he never got right?

Or if none of those things, at least one article, just one that demostrates he has turned his life around.

We know he had a great basketball career. That's just a job, it's the stuff you do outside your career field that really makes a person who they are.

 

Tinman, I'm old school and like mad max, but he quit in before the playoffs. You can't be duplistic in your favoritism. Just like clyde talked and sulked his way out of portland because Kersey was making more money than he was. I see those guys as human. When u have a competive spirit like Vernon, it hurt when they brought clyde in and he started when really he couldve taken it as being one of the best 6th men in the league. Instead, he quit.

 

awesome.


potentially great thread gone to hell in a few posts.

 

Yeah, just like this me.

Yours truly,
Ted

 

I agree with you, I'm just saying people expect more out of athletes because they make millions, but to me they're just people who make a lot of money. They make errors, they beat their wives, they cheat on the wives, they miss child support and that makes them no different than other people. I don't care Shane is a politician with words, I don't care hayes was a walk on and plays with kids either. The only thing I care about is whether they are the best qualified to help my team win games.

 

Sorry for the typo. I meant to say "just like me," but I was distracted by my Craigslist browsing.

-Ted

 

I guess for some of us, myself included, we tend to remember our heroes as flawless beings. We force ourselves to find excuses for their mistakes and only keep those wonderful moments that made them our heroes. So in my bias opinion, Madmax, as a Rocket, gave everything he had on the court, both physically and emotionally. He would play through injuries, aka leading the Rockets to a game 5 victory over the Clippers with a broken wrist. He would put himself on the line for the team, aka taking clutch shots after clutch shots or going through moving picks over and over without regards to his own body. He would lead the team through adverse times, aka his 31 pt second half against Phoenix in game 3 when the rest of the league were chanting "choke city". In return for his sacrifices, the team gave up on him after he broke down due to personal tragedy. He didn't quit on the Rockets, the Rockets quit on him. It wasn't the loss of his starting job that caused him to leave, it was the sadness from knowing that the team that he loved so much did not love him back.

 

Mad Max may have been an *******, but he was OUR *******.

I loved that guy and wish him all the best.

 

Excellent point -- Houston will always root for Mad Max's success.

He fought for us and turned choke city into Clutch City -- we owe him our support if nothing else.

 

Here you go Tinman, why don't you preach to someone new:

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76149

 

"Great men are almost always bad men."

I don't condone evildoing but you take the good with the bad. You can't expect someone to be a man's man and a choir boy. Can't have it both ways

 

I would definately support him and which him the best but the only one who can really help Mad Max is Vernon Maxwell.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Maxwell

Behavioral incidents

* 1995: In a game at Portland on February 6, he ran into the stands to punch a fan, later claiming the fan had heckled him over his wife's miscarriage. The NBA suspended him for 10 games (during which Clyde Drexler was traded for). The suspension was the 2nd longest in NBA history at the time.

* 1995: Feigning a hamstring injury, he was given a leave of absence after the 1st game of the playoffs. Maxwell later admitted he was frustrated with not playing. The incident was hyped as Maxwell being disgruntled at the team's recent acquisition of Hall-of-Fame guard Clyde Drexler. His actions led to the Rockets ending his tenure with them.

* 1996: Sentenced to 50 hours of community service for indecent exposure after a traffic accident in which he pressed his penis against the window of the driver who rear-ended his Lotus.

* 1997: Maxwell was ordered to pay a woman $592,000 for knowingly infecting her with herpes.

 

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