BASKETBALL: TALL MEN BEHAVING BADLY

AN NBA STAR IS STRIPPED OF HIS LIVELIHOOD AFTER THROTTLING HIS LOUDMOUTH COACH. WAS JUSTICE SERVED?

Put a little mustard on it? Put a little mustard on it? Who does he think he is? Why I oughta...

With thoughts like that, Latrell Sprewell, the Golden State Warriors' leading scorer and biggest hothead, took a short break during practice last Monday to throttle coach P.J. Carlesimo, who had just told him to "put a little mustard on the passes" during a shooting drill. After the two were separated, Sprewell took a 15-minute cooldown in the locker room before heading back to fight through teammates to get to Carlesimo again and yell "I'm going to kill you! You better...

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