Bowen was traded from San Antonio to Milwaukee this offseason, where the Bucks quickly bought out his contract, making him a free agent. Even though he's getting up there in age, there are probably plenty of teams that could use an occasional defensive specialist. Unfortunately, the pressures of competing for business in the shady hardcore world of southern Texas salons and spas just demands too much of his time.

Bowen and his wife, Yardley Barbon, are owners of Yardley's Salon & Spa in San Antonio. Last week, the couple walked into a rival salon called "Oasis" and started threatening two of the employees. The employees used to work for Yardley's and Bowen says they stole his company's client list before defecting to their new bosses.

Cops were called, Tweets were sent, "Bruce was cussing, and his wife was making threats, saying she was going to harass clients every day." You do not mess with a man's hair salon, people. How many times do I have say this?

Bruce Bowen, three-time champion with San Antonio Spurs, retiring from basketball [ESPN]
Bruce Bowen and wife involved in confrontation at local spa [WOAI.COM]

He did it to Knicks guard Steve Francis on Monday, injuring him, and causing him to miss this Saturday night Knicks/Spurs rematch. Isiah Thomas, when asked what he'd do if a player did the same thing to him, said this before the rematch:

"I'd beat the (stuffing) out of somebody," he said. "Really, I would. That's murder. Excuse me, but in the NBA, when you're in the air, you're really exposed and there's a certain code."

Unfortunately, they did make up after the game. It was just odd to see men with such different levels of credibility arguing. It's kind of like a priest getting into an argument with Mark Foley. Wait... that doesn't work. Nevermind.

League probing Francis' injury [NJ.com]
Cablevision: Knicks pay Brown $18.5M [Yahoo! News]