Maybe we're being a little too old school here, but it's hard to fathom Joe Dumars or Karl Malone or Bill Laimbeer getting into trouble because they forgot to pay for the diamond necklace they ordered.O.J. Mayo needs to man up.
If you're a professional athlete and going to get in trouble, at least make it something like Reggie Miller chasing another man's fianceé, or Jamaal Tinsley getting into a bar fight or Stephen Jackson waving a gun, or even Charles Barkley, 15 years ago, throwing another drunk through a plate-glass window in Orlando.
At least those are macho mistakes.
But a diamond bangle? Sounds too girlie for the NBA. David Robinson and John Stockton must be shaking their heads.
According to the Los Angeles Times, a complaint was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court this week against Mayo, for breach of contract over nearly $150,000 in custom jewelry he ordered but never paid for or picked up.
According to the complaint, the Memphis guard met with representatives of the jewelry store on April 1, 2008, when he supposedly was still going to school at USC and requested some "specially-manufactured" jewelry.
Mayo and the school already were being investigated for alleged payments he had received from both USC representatives and an agent, so apparently he was flashing money around the store.
The order, according to the report, included a diamond ring, a diamond bangle, a diamond necklace, a watch and a bracelet – just not the kind of stuff you would expect to see Bill Russell wearing.
Either Mayo had several high-priced girlfriends, he wanted to make sure he looked nice and shiny on draft night, or maybe he changed his mind and never went back to the store because of the furor caused by the NCAA investigation.
Mayo was picked No. 3 in the NBA Draft by the Memphis Grizzlies less than three months later, signing a rookie contract worth close to $11 million over three years. Maybe he used the money to buy a big pickup truck instead.
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even though david robinson is my favourite player of all time, i really think he wasn't the best choice for your "shaking their heads" comment. charles oakley? yeah. but the admiral? not so much.
i'm sure it was for his many girlfriends
He was drafted by the Timberwolves, then traded. Details, details.
Thank you Tim Povtak for sharing with us your preferences in men.
Um. Why is this homophobic crap allowed to be printed? I assume the "writer" (for lack of a better term. Guy scribbling on bathroom walls might be better) also thinks Walt Frazier is a sissy for wearing fur coats in the 70's.
You sound like Andy Rooney.
Men wearing jewelry? Next thing you know, women will be getting jobs. Amirite?
New York winters, a Smoothie needs a fur coat to hide her thermal underwear. Clyde also wore divine hats. A regular G(ay)Q kinda guy. But he could post small guards, and rebound if Reed and Lucas blocked off for him. Sounds like lunch without the sandwich, doesn`t he, O. J., hold the Mayo? Not just without the meat. But Thabeet gives them plenty of meat. And since Mayo never wore the jewelry, maybe it would be better to guess when he fitted it, he had a Wnba center in mind. Maybe the Cleveland Tony Parker`s sis. Would have been too small for Dydek! Mayo would look like a girl compared to her. She`s a real center! A man correspondingly large to Margo Dydek, a 7`2 lady, might be an over 8`2 all star center man. I`d like to see that!