Rasheed Wallace

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Originally posted by: MightyToine

Greaaaaaatt......Remove someone who is a great community guy and replace him with the King of all HeadCases. Smart Move, man. [img]i/expressions/rolleye.gif[/img]

Poor argument M'Toine. It is a fact that Wallace is one of the top community / charity guys in the league.

If you want to throw rocks try noting how much he stinks at public relations or his incompetent handling of the media.

[EricaLubarsky]

Ok M'toine might be one of the worst Toine Homers here, but V is one of the worst 'Sheed Homers on this website.

Sheed is a terrible person- and suddenly he is

It is a fact that Wallace is one of the top community / charity guys in the league.

Remember when he beaned Boumtje-Boumtje? Those many games where he was out of control? He is a cancer.

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Originally posted by: EricaLubarsky
Ok M'toine might be one of the worst Toine Homers here, but V is one of the worst 'Sheed Homers on this website.

Sheed is a terrible person- and suddenly he is

Remember when he beaned Boumtje-Boumtje? Those many games where he was out of control? He is a cancer.

First - I'm not a ''Sheed homer. If you think that is the case then you're not reading my posts. I do feel like I have to defend him at times because many of you seem to base your opinions of on nothing more than selective fourth hand information.... Now before you rip me on that comment let me say that I DO NOT have any more information about Rasheed Wallace available to me than any average basketball fan. But at least I read what's available to me... and I don't blindly agree with effin Charles Barkley & Bill Walton without doing a little research on my own....

Let that sink in before you read on... you are listening to Charles Barkley & Bill Walton when you say Wallace is a cancer.

Or perhaps you have read a little about him... maybe an article in the Oregonian or two... maybe you've read some commentary by Jason Quick? Well I advise you to check the history of the relationship between Wallace & Quick before you're so quick to listen to his perspective.

Second - What the hell does beaning Boom Boom with a basketball have to do with Wallace's charity work? Read my post. It's a fact documented in half a dozen reputable newspapers / website (including, I think, in an article from ESPN that I posted above.)

Third - What the hell are you talking about when you say "remember those many games where he was out of control?" Are you talking about him leading the league in technical fouls a couple of years ago? If that's what you mean... then yes. I remember the 1999 - 2000 season when Wallace led the league in techs. What's your point?

Fourth - I AM NOT OF THE OPINION THAT THE MAVS SHOULD TRADE ANYONE FOR RASHEED WALLACE!! My point is that you would do well to keep an open mind... because Wallace may be coming to Dallas whether you like it or not!!

Fifth - If you don't want to hear news about Wallace... or the potentiallity that he's coming to Dallas... then please don't read this thread. It's called Rasheed Wallace. We talk about 'Sheed game, his comments, his antics, his contract, whatever... we will not turn this into another one of your personal affronts to the author of this thread. If you don't like this thread please rate me as a bad poster. I'm sure you know how to do that.

I bet you couldn't pour water out of a boot with the instructions written on the heel. I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

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Advice from Rasheed Wallace helps West Catholic swingman get back on track

By TED SILARY
silaryt@phillynews.com

It's doubtful Rasheed Wallace will ever replace Dear Abby as a source for sound advice.

Contrary to what his endless technical fouls and outrageous statements might suggest, though, the bad-boy Portland Trailblazer from Philly and Simon Gratz High does have a clue about proper behavior, and he's not afraid to ream out those who deserve it.

Don't believe that? Check with Hakeem Townsend.

Townsend, a 6-3, 185-pound senior, is a swingman for West Catholic High's basketball team. He is also Wallace's first cousin.

Last winter, when Townsend missed the entire season due to academic ineligibility, 'Sheed was among the steamed.

"He said he was pretty disappointed in me, that there was no excuse for letting something like that happen," Townsend said. "He said that's how it goes: If you don't do your classwork, you don't get to play basketball.

"I'm usually a good student [he has scored 980 on the SAT]. I just got lazy for a while. I didn't do what I was supposed to. I was mad at myself and my mom [Jacqueline] was mad at me, too. She stayed on me. Had me on punishment. I couldn't leave the house for a while."

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In Wallace, Townsend has a friend as well as a cousin. The two talk pretty much every other week and Wallace has been generous in the gift-giving department.

"He's given me a lot of video games, jerseys, that kind of stuff," said Townsend, who lives near 55th and Master and has applied to Millersville, Cabrini and Albright. "And last summer, he had me out to Portland to spend 2 weeks with him. He showed me all around. Whenever I can, I watch his games on TV. We have a satellite dish."

LINK TO FULL STORY

[sike]

I would take Sheed over Artest as proposed in kg's thread.......(though that trade is primarily to get Pollard)

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January 13

Asked about his team's alleged pursuit of Wallace, Cuban dumped cold water on the notion.

"It's all hypothetical," Cuban said, sitting on a folding chair surrounded in the visitor's dressing room at Madison Square Garden. "They would have to make us a sweetheart bargain that we couldn't say no to."

FULL STORY