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Dominating the headlines this Saturday is the shocking (shocking!) admission by the Mavericks' Josh Howard that he, like every one in the NBA who isn't J.J. Reddick, smokes trees in the off-season. Also: baseball players take steroids and politicians cheat on their spouses.
"Most of the players in the league use marijuana and I have and do partake in smoking weed in the offseason sometimes," Howard told The Michael Irvin Show on the local ESPN affiliate. "I mean, that's my personal choice and my personal opinion, but I don't think that's stopping me from doing my job."
Irvin then laughed and called him a lightweight.
Yes, marijuana is one of them there controlled substances so the league and Mark Cuban have wrung their hands until they're rubbed raw about meting out symbolic punishment. Not that DUIs are a problem or anything, Melo.
As long as weed is illegal there has to be disproportionate punishment for even daring to speak its name. That's why you have to be subtle about it, Josh, like Clipse and Pharrell. See, they make you think "Gangta Lean" is really about some hot chick. But there's a secret message you get only if you're superattentive like me: it's about weed!
Oh girl ya taste is
Sweet like mornin' dew
I would go crazy girl
If I couldn't have none of you
Hell yeah. She sounds HOTT!
I said ya from Jamaica
Straight outta my Mercedes trunk
Well, uh, now I'm kind of hoping it's not a girl, to be perfectly honest. The message here is be subtle. Or try drinking in your free time. No one loses their job for that!
Comments
So, over-under on number of times Ape references getting shit-canned for the rest of the weekend?
He was fired?
"She was living in a single room with three other individuals. One of them was a male and the other two, well, the other two were females. God only know what they were up to in there. and furthermore Susan, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that all four of them hibitually smoked marijuana cigarettes... reefers!"
[thechumslick.summeroftheshark.com] Depends on who the Steelers draft.
Hey, Ape, it's just Clipse or the Clipse; else, it's bad manners.
Also, you may have missed "Ma, I Don't Love Her," their serenade to a 9 millie:
+ Watch video
@twoeightnine: @BigTenObsession: I'll be good.
@Rock You Like An Iracane: Okay, so the lines in question end the first verse, not the whole song.
Settlety musn't be Josh's strong suit.
Grindin' was about skateboarding, definitely not about dealing drugs.
uh, how did my FF adblock miss Coors Light? Now we know what Gawker IT is working on...
@She Blinded Me With Violence: Okay, so he's not quiet, but he's interesting, and, from the above article, pre-2007 playoffs:
TrueHoop: One theory I heard about why you went as low as 29th is that some teams were concerned that you might have a problem with marijuana.
Howard: I think a lot of people have that problem. How that could stop me from getting drafted, though? How many guys in the lottery smoke pot? The weed thing, just about everybody smokes.
Top down
Chrome spinnin'
@Matt_T:
Cops swore we was playing catch
No, we was addin' stretch
I think 99% of songs by the Clipse is about cocaine, gang banging, or gang banging while dealing cocaine. This must be that time when they decided to really stretch their creative muscle with a song about weed.
@Cousins of Ron Mexico:
You see the boss grinnin'
I'm lovin' these damn women
@SlantedAndDisenchanted: I'm going to have to go with 98%.
And boy, if this afternoon turns into a Clipse discussion rather than draft blogging, I'm going to be overjoyed.
@Rock You Like An Iracane:
Yeah you're probably right. Young Jeezy on the other hand...
@Rock You Like An Iracane: Who are the Clipse? I was just talking about my drop top Ford Focus.
I remember being a huge Cypress Hill fan until I found out their music was largely about marijuana cigarettes. That's how I feel about the NBA. I'm really disappointed in these lads. Shame on them.
Hits from the Bong and I wanna Get High were about drugs. Just so you know.
"It's me. I was going to smoke the marijuana like a cigarette."
@amorphous: Plus one frozen banana.
@amorphous: It's really cold out here.
@BigTenObsession: If he keeps linking to the Editorials on MSM sites - including the comment sections - it will be fun. The posts from people who say it was justified - then say they haven't even looked at KSK - are great weekend comedy.
Someone get Adam Morrison a twomp and a vaporizer, stat.
@Karlifornia: I've heard he laces his joints with insulin. Now, that... that's a wicked high.
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