{"id":13834,"date":"2004-11-23T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-23T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/23\/ron-artests-apology\/"},"modified":"2004-11-23T12:56:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-23T12:56:00","slug":"ron-artests-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/23\/ron-artests-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Artest&#8217;s &#8220;Apology&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you that haven&rsquo;t heard, there was a <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2004\/basketball\/nba\/11\/22\/charges.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">huge brawl in an Indiana Pacers-Detroit Pistons game<\/a> over the weekend that resulted in several players jumping into the stands and fighting with fans.  NBA commissioner David Stern acted swiftly, <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/nba\/news\/story?id=1928540\" target=\"_blank\">banning nine different players for a total of 140 games<\/a>, including the Pacers&rsquo; Ron Artest for the rest of the season.  Personally, I agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/nba\/news\/story?id=1928540\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Wilbon of the <i>Washington Post<\/i><\/a> that some of the players got off easy.  Artest reportedly <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;cid=576&amp;u=\/nm\/20041123\/sp_nm\/nba_artest_dc_3&amp;printer=1\" target=\"_blank\">apologized in a <i>People<\/i> magazine interview<\/a>, commenting, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m trying to be positive. I&rsquo;m a big fan of the Nobel Peace Prize.&rdquo;  The audacity and inanity of that quote makes me dislike him all the more&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-110121458656519883?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you that haven&rsquo;t heard, there was a huge brawl in an Indiana Pacers-Detroit Pistons game over the weekend that resulted in several players jumping into the stands and fighting with fans. NBA commissioner David Stern acted swiftly, banning nine different players for a total of 140 games, including the Pacers&rsquo; Ron Artest &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/23\/ron-artests-apology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ron Artest&#8217;s &#8220;Apology&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}