In bizarre news, the Knicks have hired former coach and team president Isiah Thomas as a prospect consultant. He will allegedly keep his coaching post at Florida International University. I don’t know any other employer that would bring back an employee that cost them $11.6 million dollars! (from a lawsuit at that) SMH
After teasing Minnesota fans for one season and losing to the New Orleans Saints in the NFC Championship game, sources say Brett Favre have told Viking officials he will not return for a 20th season. Although Favre has not made an official statement, we have learned to believe “sources”. (Just ask Lebron James!) lol
SI: How about in Las Vegas? What would your typical day in Vegas be like?
Tyson: This is how the day would start: I would go to a club, at say, 2 o’clock [a.m.]. Hang out there for what, two hours, and then I’d go to the after-hours [clubs], that start at 6 o’clock [a.m.]. So I’d stay there from 6 in the morning to 7:30 at night. I’d be sitting down and drinking and doing cocaine, talking to girls … doing anything. Everything. Then I make it home and I’m tripping out at home. I’m calling people, I’m tired, but I’ve got people coming in and we’re making plans to go out a few hours later. We’re getting high, staying up, [doing] cocaine. Somebody would be calling me: “Come hang out with me.” So we would go out and get high, till 11 o’clock [p.m.] or something, then go somewhere, to a bar or somewhere. We might go to a club, then get high all day long.
SI: You got involved with prostitutes.
Tyson: Listen, I was living a crazy life. A [prostitute] would go, “There’s that guy who hit me the other day, who took money from me the other day, who intimidated me.” And [that guy] had to give some money up. [I'd say,] “This is my girl, man. She works for me now. This is my girl now.” That’s how it was. I wanted to show loyalty to these people. I was so stupid. I’d say, “If you have a problem, just let me know.” And all these guys would say, “What’s Mike Tyson going to do [to me]?” It was always like that until I got in their f—–’ ass. I’m a nice man, but back then, I wasn’t. I’m not proud of it.
Memphis police have found the body of a man eyewitnesses say is Lorenzen Wright, who has been missing since July 17th. Sources say he had been shot and it may have been self-inflected. Despite earning $55 million throughout his NBA career, Wright ran into financial difficulties that lead to his house being foreclosed last May.
R.I.P. Lorenzen Wright
The 34-year-old Wright was last seen July 18 when he was expected to fly out of town. His family filed a missing person report July 22.
Wright played 13 years in the NBA with five different teams: the Los Angeles Clippers, Atlanta Hawks, Memphis Grizzlies, Sacramento Kings and most recently the Cleveland Cavaliers with 17 games in the 2008-09 season. Wright left the University of Memphis early for the NBA, and the Clippers made him a lottery pick with the No. 7 selection overall.