@ Drew do u know any professional athletes. More money more responsibility. Do u face injury or career ending surgeries. Are u away from ur loved ones 80 % of the year. Every basketball could do your job or learn it. Very few avg people if taught could make a D1 program let alone thrive in rec ball. U don’t know so stop speculating.

Also a lot of people on this site & around are way more dangerous & stupid than the people that found themselves in this unfortunate situation. Was what tiger did? Worse than how the media portrayed him & or attacked his character. The one good thing is u know what people actually think about u.

Where it is going to get tricky is next season when Gilbert doesn’t want to play for Washington (ever again) and no one wants his contract in trade. That may result in an impasse.

and don’t talk about gil like it’s his “basketball fame” that got him off – the cat is rich as shit and has bad ass lawyers, which is exactly what our fine country is built on, and any rich as guy, if he plays for the lakers or an oil company, is going to make out okay in a situation like this. in fact, i’m thinking a rich nobody (you know, some guy you don’t know, never heard of) would get off even easier than Gil, because at the very least, they can’t make a public figure like Gil get off with nothing happening to him – because even now, look at you guys, you’re flipping out like he stomped someone to death and got off with a slap on the wrist.

i’d be really interested to see what the normal penalty is for a guy that rich in this situation. I’m sure it doesn’t happen often, but i’m sure it’s happened, and i’m guessing the penalty is rarely more than Gils.

And i’d also be interested to see what a medium waged guy in Gil’s situation (relatively) gets in a crime like this, I bet it’s nothing much worse than Gil’s either.

Its actually the other way around. Professional athletes don’t go through a quarter of what the average person does. You know, like work 9-5 50 weeks out of the year, pay a mortgage, find out how to put food on the table, or send your kid to college. Theres no doubt they put in crazy amounts of hard work to do what they do, but to say they are so superior in someway to the average person, is a bit off.

I see where you are coming from wiz4 about intent, and all the good thing Gil has done since hes got in the league. But to say hes not expendable, means you haven’t been watching him play much (you gotta be a wiz fan too!). Gil at this point IS expendable. I miss post surgery/guns Gil too much.

I also think shirley may have a point. not that he’s right, but does anyone know what they’re doing with all this aid?

I don’t mean that as a slap to haiti, I feel that way about charities in general. More the charities themselves than the recipients though.

Charities can be havens for crooked people to take advantage. Again, I mean the people in the charities, not the recipients.

I thought I saw somewhere that the men are hoarding everything and the women go hungry down there.