Gun Problems? The Pacers Know How to Rebuild Your Image

The Plaxico Burress story stands on its own island in terms of absurd self-satire, but it's surely isn't the first (or last) highly publicized episode involving guns, athletes and night clubs. With Burress as the hook, an Indianapolis sports talk radio show invited a local gun shop owner to talk about athletes and safety.

The wonderful Indy Cornrows transcribed the segment, which includes new info on how the Pacers sought to clean up the mess created by the Stephen Jackson-Jamaal Tinsley-Marquis Daniels incident at Club Rio.

In fact, the Pacers come down and said, Hey Don would you take a lot of those pictures down for a while. Because they'll come in and get me to come out and do the gun thing and take a picture and write, To my buddy, Don or something and we got 'em in the gun store.

You know how small businesses have photos of local celebs? Yeah, it's pretty easy to see why the Pacers franchise might have a problem in the aftermath of Club Rio with a photo of Jackson cheesing for the camera with a Luger in hand. That's slightly more problematic than a photo of Danny Granger eating a chimichanga at the local taqueria.