<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> Eight years after graduating from high school, Indiana Pacers All-Star Jermaine O'Neal finally got to attend the prom. But only because Janese Banks had the nerve to ask. Banks, a senior at Ben Davis High School, jokingly asked O'Neal to take her to the school's prom when they met at a news conference for the Jermaine O'Neal Super Shootout game in March. To her surprise, he said yes. After he got permission from his fianc?e, of course. "It wasn't something I was planning," said Banks, who will attend the University of Wisconsin next year on a basketball scholarship. "It was a spur-of-the-moment thing. I guess it pays to be assertive." Banks was a four-year letter winner in volleyball, basketball and track at Ben Davis, and The Indianapolis Star's metro-area Super Team Player of the Year in basketball after helping the Giants to a 23-1 season. Her selection to play in the all-star game sponsored by O'Neal turned out to be fateful, as it gave her the opportunity to make her bold request.</div> <div align="center"><u>Full Story</u></div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="left">Jermaine O'neal is becoming one of my favourite players with his generosity and overall niceness. From his actions he has shown that he is not only a complete player but a complete person.</div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> </div>
He has always been one of my favorite players. He is likable and a gentleman. He is very respectful and plays teh game to the fullest. We need more players like this in the game, and les Kenyon Martins.
Jermaine O'Neal is the nicest NBA player I've heard of.. Nobody has been more generous and kind to people, I've read like 12 articles like this about Jermaine.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Q Rich3:</div><div class="quote_post">He has always been one of my favorite players. He is likable and a gentleman. He is very respectful and plays teh game to the fullest. We need more players like this in the game, and les Kenyon Martins.</div> What makes you think that Kenyon is such a bad person?? He may act like that on the court but you have no idea what he is like outside of it. I have heard that he is actually a very nice guy off the court.
good thing he didn't stay in Portland then....he would be smoking it up with Sheed and MightyMouse! they would have been a bad influence for him
^I can only imagine how he would end up in Portland. There are so many bad influences on that team at the time that they could have an affect on a brother. Good thing he's in Indiana playing for a championship.
well Patterson, Stoudamire, Woods, Randolph, Wallace have all been arrested for a variety of drug, alcohol and assault charges it's Portland's own fault that they have this image
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Trip:</div><div class="quote_post">It's funny, any player who goes to Portland gets associated to drugs etc. Stereotypical. </div> Like Eclipse said it's their own fault that they have this bad reputation. Is it fair for them to be assessed this way? Definitely.
He's surprising very humble, he's so good and has so much to showoff about yet he doesn't let his ego get to him, heck what I am saying, he doesn't really have one. Like that award he got, he is exactly that and more, good on the court, good with the media, although I'd specify the media to be the people instead. It's really heartwarming to see guys like him still be around, as far as Kenyon goes, it's a game, I personally don't usually like players like that, but look at what he does and how he plays. Intensity. He does look like he'd be decent off court, competition just does that to people.
