OT RonRon, "I drank at halftime"

Submitted by HelloHeisman91 on

This just blows my mind. Feeling much better about myself hardly watching pro sports anymore.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4706474

"I used to drink Hennessy ... at halftime," Artest said in an interview with The Sporting News, which is publishing the story in its Dec. 7 issue. "I [kept it] in my locker. I'd just walk to the liquor store and get it."

DesHow21

December 2nd, 2009 at 1:02 PM ^

No disrespect to you or anything, but I have seen this* a few times here (not from you though) and it bugs the hell out of me.

* Taking a mans name (and Ron Artest is a MAN) and repeating it twice like "RonRon" or "BrayBray" is just fucking demeaning. That's how 13 year old girls call each other. Cmon man, you have Bo's pic as your avatar. You think Bo wouldn't drop kick you to hell (i.e. columbus)if you called him Bobo?

BiSB

December 2nd, 2009 at 1:51 PM ^

Game, Set, Match. Point. Scott. Game over. End of Game.

FWIW, I don't think this is the first time someone has called him "Ron-Ron"...

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2281289

http://www.slamonline.com/online/nba/2009/12/ron-ron-drinks-plays-and-s…

http://lakers.freedomblogging.com/2009/08/06/ron-ron-takes-phone-calls/…

Tater

December 2nd, 2009 at 1:26 PM ^

Did the "Malice at the Palace" happen in the second half? Maybe the police will start doing BAL tests whenever similar incidents happen in major sports.

mblood7

December 2nd, 2009 at 1:55 PM ^

That's a damn good questions but if my memory serves me right the "Malice at the Palace" happened in the second quarter. I could be wrong though.

Wiki Edit: the "malice at the palace" happened with 45 seconds left in the game. For some reason I thought it was at the end of the first half.

So it depends on how much he drinks at half time. 2 or 3 swigs not going to do much to a Man of RonRon's stature but a fifth of Henny and we're looking at the main reason for the brawl (oh yeah and the beer that was thrown)

jmblue

December 2nd, 2009 at 3:29 PM ^

How can you play 35-40 minutes of NBA basketball at the level he did while drinking alcohol? He must have collapsed of dehydration after games.

PurpleStuff

December 2nd, 2009 at 4:20 PM ^

Not sure if this story is true, but I heard Artest interviewed here in LA after he joined the Lakers and he kept talking about having high tea in the Oval Office with Obama and how Obama just let him sit behind the President's desk. The interviewer also asked him if Phil Jackson had given him a book to read and Artest said basically, "I don't do books, I'd rather he give me some beats."

In short, Ron Ron is hilarious and very well could have just made this up.