Oooboy! I love our choices tooodaaaay! Tinsley or Felton! Tough call... It's like deciding whether you want to staple-gun your balls to a wall or die of dysentery. Really really tough to choose just one.
Yeah, the Lakers adding veteran stars has always worked great. Glenn Rice, Mitch Richmond, Karl Malone, Gary Payton - the list of stars who came to the Lakers and had their best years ever goes on and on. That Kupchak fellow is a genius. And as for Tinsley - I know it WON'T happen, but the list of people complaining without saying what's wrong with Tinsley leads me to think that his bad reputation is a myth. Everybody knows he's bad. They just don't quite know how they know it.
His troubles are well documented, and they mostly make you think of JR Rider, except instead of drugs he's had troubles with guns http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/2007-12-09-2210638117_x.htm The guy's a headcase and nothing but trouble.
Did you actually read that article? Find in it anything that Tinsley did wrong. Here's a good quote for you:
he was also on a contract year, good luck getting the same behavior out of him again. regarding Tinsley - he's a career 39% shooter. I might take him as 3rd string PG on the vet's min, and even that's pushing it.
Another article full of cheap insinuations without any evidence. It even admits as much. Nice going. Yeah, the guy hangs out with bad people. Big surprise, given where he's from and how he grew up. But besides the Marquis Daniels thing, which pales beside Charles Barkley's throw-a-guy-through-a-window stunt, what has he done? He got shot at! My God, the bastard! Think how bad Paul Pierce must be - he got stabbed!
Rastapopoulos - you're ignoring the fact that the guy can't shoot at all and hasn't played in 1.5 years. Ignore character issues; why on earth would any NBA team want to sign Jamaal Tinsley the player?
So you think the Pacers kept him from taking the court or being around the team for a full year because some innuendo was floating around out there? The dude went through diversion, for a battery charge, the dude has been involved with shootings because he hangs with a crowd he'd probably be better off not and the biggest sin ... he's not even that good of a basketball player. I just don't get the interest.
