A little while back, I showed you the video of Celtics' rookie Bill Walker mixing it up with Tracy McGrady, and made my thoughts on his multiple preseason altercations with stars in the league crystal clear: I did not approve. To recap briefly, it's simply unnecessary for a rookie to start first quarter fights with the opposing team or taunt the best player in the NBA after a simple slam dunk.Apparently I wasn't the only one who felt that Walker's over-the-top behavior was inappropriate, and some others wrote about it with a similar sentiment (albeit with a more PG-13 headline). This is where the beauty of ESPN merging local content with their own on the site's player profile pages comes into play.
Via Basketbawful, here's a screen grab of what Bill Walker's profile page on the Worldwide Leader's site used to look like. Which, unfortunately for the Disney-owned corporation, splashes the previously mentioned PG-13 headline right under his bio information in bold letters for all to see. It's since been corrected, but for a quick trip back in time to this hilarious error, the picture is after the jump.
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10-22-2008 @ 9:58PM
dchosen1 said...
someone is going to sock his a** one of these days.
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10-22-2008 @ 11:50PM
Nora said...
Someone needs to do something about Edwards. What is this his 3rd column about Walker? Simply pathetic. This is what you are reduced to writing about? There is nothing else going on? Well, Walker is already in peoples heads. Every team has a player like Walker. Get a clue Edwards, and deal with it!
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10-23-2008 @ 12:16AM
dave said...
right on...writing about a rookie 2nd rounder, you're giving him too much credit Edwards, those were preseason games...time to right something more meaningful and get your ass off walker's @$$
10-23-2008 @ 1:16AM
grover said...
If that is from the newspaper I think it is, then this is nothing more than school rivalry.
The Pitch is a Kansas City area weekly newspaper that has a pretty strong presence at KU, which is only 40 miles away in Lawrence.
Bill Walker went to K-State. You do the math.
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10-23-2008 @ 7:47PM
magic4evr said...
times have changed ,imagine if he were to act like that with the great bill russell,or wilt the stilt,or even karrem,they would put him in his place like the step chid behaving idiot that he is ,none of these so called players even come close to the legends of the game,none of them have accomplished anything and all of a sudden they are the man ,man that just makes me crack up, how selfish they are ,and that all they are is selfish,it shows what kind of real man they really are ,just to bad the majority of the NBA players act the same
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