Pot Shots: The Humiliation of Clifford Robinson

"Robinson was also suspended five games in February 2005 while playing for Golden State. Under terms of last year's collective bargaining agreement, a player would be suspended five games for a third positive test for marijuana. The 39-year-old Robinson is a valuable reserve for the Nets. He averaged 6.9 points in 80 games this season, his 17th in the NBA."

Among active NBA players, Cliff Robinson is second only to Dikembe Mutombo in age. What does that say about his marijuana use? The league, i.e. the owners, set him up by insisting that he only use corporate drugs to deal with the pounding his body took. Clifford Robinson was obviously unimpaired as an athlete. By all accounts he was friendly, intelligent, even-tempered un-egotistical -a great teammate. He didn't like being screamed at by PJ Carlesimo, but he handled the situation more diplomatically than another player did a few years later. Lot of good it did him...

Young Latrell moved to Flint to live with his dad Who then got taken prisoner in your war on drugs gone mad Over some marijuana they put another man away Was that good for General Motors, was it any good for the USA?

PJ Carlesimo was the coach at Seton Hall Never won a championship but PJ got the call to try his style of leadershit on the players up in the pros He was Caucasian, by the way, the players mostly Negroes

Sprewell won a fellowship to attend the Crimson Tide Where the athletes lived segregation camouflaged as pride He got well known for defense and always working hard Nelson drafted him after saying "Why ever draft a guard?"

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