<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">WASHINGTON -- The Washington Wizards suspended forward Kwame Brown on Tuesday for the remainder of the playoffs. The announcement came after Brown, coach Eddie Jordan and president of basketball operations Ernie Grunfeld met for about 10 minutes before the team's practice. "We had some philosophical differences," Grunfeld said, "and we're putting those behind us and focusing on the job at hand."</div> wow the real story is he FAKED SICK in a playoff game.. someone kick this guy out of the NBA Source <font size="0"><font color="red">Just a little note -- Next time please post 2 or 3 paragraphs and then link us to the source...thank you. Kobe 8 Ball</font></font>
I have not seen the reference to him faking to be sick, the problem was with him not even showing up to the Arena. You can't just call in sick, and then not come to the game.
He has every right to be pissed. In game 1 he put up 13 pts in the first half and the Wizards were rolling...then in the second half of that game, he got two shots..two freaking shots and the Wizards blew it. They strayed away from him in game 2 and only gave him 4 minutes in game 3. How the hell is he supposed to get confidence in himself when we don't go to him when he is rolling? Well it's time to watch another big man blossom into an all star after a stay with the Wizards. Good luck Kwame, I for one, will be rooting all for you.
Kwame Brown has been alot about promise and not much on delivery. He may have a legit reason for not showing, but it seems like a pattern of unreliability. I could be wrong.
Wow, kind of like Kwame is getting bullied. Getting booed by your home fans is not right, I don't care how bad a player is playing he still deserves support. Whats the whole faking sick thing though, that may be going a little to the extreme.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Da_Future_2k5:</div><div class="quote_post">wow the real story is he FAKED SICK in a playoff game.. someone kick this guy out of the NBA</div> I know that at least one person in the forum thinks I am nothing but a Kwame hater but actually read what I have to say. It's the playoffs, and the Wizards have a good chance of winning this series. IF the coaches actually saw Kwame as a significant part of the team, they wouldn't have suspended him for the remainder of the playoffs, regardless of what he did. This isn't college, no need to send messages. Besides Kwame isn't even one of the top 3 players on that team, he's not good enough to be made an example of. This isn't the same as the instance with Bonzi Wells, because he wasn't going to play anyway. So what does this say about the way management/coaches see Kwame? Either a) they see his on court "ability" as detrimental to the team, or they see him as insignificant and feel that he can't do anything that other players can do. Obviously the Wiz feel that they can still win without Kwame.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Jurassic:</div><div class="quote_post">It's the playoffs, and the Wizards have a good chance of winning this series. IF the coaches actually saw Kwame as a significant part of the team, they wouldn't have suspended him for the remainder of the playoffs, regardless of what he did. This isn't college, no need to send messages. Besides Kwame isn't even one of the top 3 players on that team, he's not good enough to be made an example of.</div>I don't know you as a kwame hater, but many teams in many sports have done this. If you are a strong organization, you can cut ties with an important part of a possible championship run.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Brown has a virus, all right. He has a virus of the head, along with an inflated sense of his abilities after four seasons in the NBA. He thinks he is better than he is. But we knew this already. And we knew he was mentally fragile. He never has taken responsibility -- at least not publicly -- for where he is at this point in his development. He used to point to the tag team of Doug Collins and Michael Jordan as the cause of his problems. They were mean to him, you see. They called him nasty names. They questioned his manhood. Before the season, in an interview with The Washington Post, he shifted to the race card in an act of absurd desperation. But this is the Brown we have come to know. His stunted progress is everyone's fault but his own, and now it is the fault of Ernie Grunfeld, Eddie Jordan, Tony Cheng, Peter Angelos, Bud Selig, George Bush, the neighbor down the street and anyone else who happens to be convenient. Brown's power to delude is infinite, and this is the principal cause of his irrelevance. He does not want the responsibility of greatness, as Gilbert Arenas does. All too often Brown does not even want the ball. All too often he will pass up a 2-footer. Arenas reveals the depth of his character and commitment more in the bad times than the good. He slipped into a funk in Game 1 and claimed it as his. He even joked about his high number of off-balanced field goal attempts. Arenas missed a bunch of free throw attempts down the stretch of a tight game in Orlando this season that cost the Wizards dearly. Arenas did not run from the burden. He stood up and said, "That loss is on me." That is what the best of the best learn to do in the NBA. They learn to accept the percentages of the game. They learn it is impossible to be great in all 82 games of the regular season and then the playoffs. The great ones learn to compartmentalize their bad nights before returning to the gym to sharpen this or that skill. But Brown does not have that fight in him. When the going gets tough, he comes down with a "stomach virus." </div> Source
