Dan Gaters
09-04-2008, 09:21 AM
Two rookies attending an N.B.A. seminar that teaches players how to avoid
trouble were sent home on the eventıs first day for violating the programıs
rules.
Mario Chalmers and Darrell Arthur, who were teammates at Kansas, were
dismissed Wednesday from the annual rookie transition program, a three-day
event at a resort in Rye Brook, N.Y.
The rookie seminar is held annually and is mandatory for first-year players.
The program includes lectures on money management and officiating, as well
as drug use, gambling and groupies.
According to two people with direct knowledge of the situation, Chalmers and
Arthur had women in their hotel rooms Tuesday night, a violation of the
programıs rules.
It is extremely rare for rookies to be kicked out of the orientation
program. The last player to be sent home was Ron Artest in 1999.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/sports/basketball/04nba.html>
These are true Knicks that got away. Where was our top scout, Isiah Lord
Thomas III?
DG
trouble were sent home on the eventıs first day for violating the programıs
rules.
Mario Chalmers and Darrell Arthur, who were teammates at Kansas, were
dismissed Wednesday from the annual rookie transition program, a three-day
event at a resort in Rye Brook, N.Y.
The rookie seminar is held annually and is mandatory for first-year players.
The program includes lectures on money management and officiating, as well
as drug use, gambling and groupies.
According to two people with direct knowledge of the situation, Chalmers and
Arthur had women in their hotel rooms Tuesday night, a violation of the
programıs rules.
It is extremely rare for rookies to be kicked out of the orientation
program. The last player to be sent home was Ron Artest in 1999.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/sports/basketball/04nba.html>
These are true Knicks that got away. Where was our top scout, Isiah Lord
Thomas III?
DG