Latrell Sprewell is a bad fucking man… just look at his rap sheet
-In 1994 Sprewell’s pitbull severed his own 4 year old daughters ear. His response to it… “People die all the time and if it had been more serious it would have affected me”
-In junior college Sprewell and his teammates were arrested for stealing bateries from a convenience store
-While on the Warriors he would get in fights with Byron Houston and Jerome Kersey in practice. After one fight with Kersey he returned with a 2×4 but was restrained by teammates
-HE TRIED TO FUCKING KILL HIS COACH PJ CARLESIMO
December 1, 1997, was the blowup, at a moment when the Warriors’ record was 1-13. “We all seen it coming,” Coles says. During practice, Sprewell was running a three-man, two-ball shooting drill with the point guard Muggsy Bogues and Mark Grabow, an assistant coach. Sprewell’s job was to keep passing, rapid-fire, to Bogues, who in turn was to try to get as many shots off as possible in a 55-second span.
Carlesimo stood and watched, dissatisfied by the pace. “Get Muggsy some more shots, Spree,” he said.
Sprewell didn’t think there was anything wrong with his passes, so he kept passing exactly as he had been.
“Come on Spree, give him a sharper, crisper pass,” Carlesimo said, a bit louder.
He called Sprewell’s name again.
Sprewell wheeled around. He slammed the ball to the floor. “Get off my back, motherfucker.”
“You’re the fuck out of here,” Carlesimo said. “Just go, Spree. Just leave.”
Sprewell walked over to Carlesimo and grabbed him tight around the throat. “I’ll kill you,” Sprewell said, pushing Carlesimo backward.
“Do it,” Carlesimo said.
It was about ten seconds until two assistant coaches pulled Sprewell off and led him out of the gym. “Get me the fuck out of here!” he yelled. “Trade me! I hate you!” He knocked over a water cooler.
Coles joined Sprewell in the hallway because he hoped to calm him down, but was called back; Carlesimo wanted to resume practice without a break.
If only he’d let Coles have his way. About fifteen minutes later, Sprewell returned to the gym. Two coaches tried to grab him, but he was already around the baseline and under the basket, where Carlesimo was monitoring a full-court drill.
“Don’t touch me,” Sprewell said. And then to Carlesimo: “I’m going to fuck you up.” He grazed Carlesimo’s cheek with an overhand punch as a swarm of coaches and players again pulled him away.
Sprewell testified he heard a teammate, Duane Ferrell, tell him he was only making himself look bad, and he felt humiliated all of a sudden. He was throwing a silly, violent tantrum. “Trade me,” he yelled, and then realized he was missing a flip-flop and looked even more foolish, with one bare foot. “Give me my damned shoe.”
-He can’t even do math… when the Timberwolves offered him a 3 year $21 million contract extension he said “I have a family to feed.. how am I supposed to feed by family off $7 million a year”
All that said.. this still might be one of the greatest clips of all time..
Thanks for keeping it real Latrell!!!
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