jmr07019 wrote:SmartWentCrazy wrote:ryaningf wrote:Catching up from the last iteration of this thread....
Property damage that resulted from a dispute with his teammates' ex-girlfriend in a public place, it's not cool it's certainly immature, but come on it's property damage.
Josh Jackson is EXACTLY the type of player that DA covets: intense, 2-way player with a chip on his shoulder. He's got that KG like intensity and plays his biggest during winning time. He's certainly at the top of our list and this incident changes nothing.
Look up what LaGerald Vick did to that woman. Jackson threatened to beat her. That's not property damage, that's an ****. He can change, and perhaps this is a wake up call, but this isn't 'property damage'. Don't undersell it.
You where not there and don't really know what happened. You know that woman and her friends said that Jackson made a threat. People lie all the time. Who knows exactly what happened. It's a bad look for Jackson unquestionably but is it's also entirely possible that:
- jackson is a 19/20 year old getting drunk for the first handful of times and doesn't know how to handle himself
- he kicks car
- the female ball players dislike the male players and especially jackson because of all the extra attention they get
- they decide to teach this kid a lesson and make this up, knowing that the victim had already had domestic violence problems and this would carry more weight in the media
- jacksons really a good kid who is hanging out with the wrong crowd
I'm not saying Josh is or isn't a good kid but let's not hang him yet.
The amount of assumptions you're making here are startling.
I also never said to hang him, and, as if this moment have him 3 on my board. But let's not be ignorant and pretend this was nothing.
