The suspension of a Golden State Warrior player

Today, I will be writing about a basketball player who happens to be one of the famous players in the 1990’s and in the early 2000. He happens to be the player drafted of Golden State Warriors in 1992-1993 season. All we know today that the Golden State Warriors have won their championship just this year after 40 years of waiting. Even making the best start in NBA history,this season currently as I write this one with a blazing 20-0 record. The Warriors have built it’s reputation with their hot shooting duo starring Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson plus with the help of the NBA Final’s MVP Andre Iguodala. But before this guys achieved the mightiest goal in Basketball world, a player was creating himself a name in the Golden State Warriors franchise, his name Latrell Sprewell.

Sprewell, first played in November 6, 1992 for the warriors and it lasted for 6 season before being drafted to the New York Knicks in the 1998-1999 season of the NBA. Something happened in  that somehow turned heads on the NBA, it is when Mr. Sprewell choked and threatened to kill his coach PJ Carlesimo.  It was one of the harshest implemented suspension of an NBA player.  Because of the event that happened, On  December 4^th 1997, exactly 18 years ago today, the NBA decided to suspend Mr. Sprewell  for one year. By 1998, Sprewell got in into a new team, the New York Knicks and played there for over 5 season before going again to other team, he played well and got a reputation of being a shooter also. And on his final 2 seasons, he played for the Minnesota Timberwolves together with my favorite player that time, Kevin Garnett.

That event was implemented due to the harsh actions of Mr. Sprewell, obviously. But sometimes we cannot avoid to look at his side also, maybe he has deeper reasons, on why he did it. But the NBA rules must be followed, a professional sport which is being watched by millions of people must do something that would make people realize that such violent actions would not be tolerated in any way.

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