ROY TARPLEY SUING MAVERICKS, NBA

by Mike, the Pig Pen

Ah, Roy Tarpley. Or better known as an early 90's Lindsay Lohan in a 6'11 black man's body. If you don't remember Roy "Berooy" Tarpley, he was kicked out of the NBA, twice, for drug and alcohol problems. First being in 1991 when he tested positive for cocaine. And after being reinstated and resigned by Dallas in 1994, Tarpley was booted off the team and banned from the NBA in 1995 due to serious alcohol problems. Sounds like a normal guy to me. Who doesn't get into some cocaine and significant amounts of alcohol at some point in their life? Just kidding. But this out of the Dallas Morning News, it looks as though Tarpley is suing the Mavericks and the NBA.

Former Dallas Mavericks forward Roy Tarpley is suing the team and the NBA, claiming they violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by refusing to reinstate him to the league.

Tarpley, who was permanently banned from the NBA in 1995, says in his lawsuit the NBA and the Mavericks discriminated against him on the basis of his disability as a recovering drug and alcohol abuser.

What the f*ck is he point? Does he truly believe the Dallas Mavericks were going resign a recovering alcoholic, just because, and pencil him in the starting five? C'mon Tarp. I understand employee discrimination but it's kind of ridiculous to assume a team and a league must reinstate you because of an illness, which just curiously happens to be an addiction to cocaine. And on top of that, what is he trying to obtain out of all this? Reinstatement into the NBA? I have a better chance at understanding what the f*ck is going on in NBC's "Heroes" than Roy Tarpley, 43, has at running up and down an NBA court. Give it up Tarp.