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March 13, 2006
Dominique Wilkins needs an adjustment
A post on Truehoop.com talks a bit about Dominique Wilkin's bad attitude (link)
When I was a high school senior in Athens, Wilkins was playing out the twilight of his career at the Greek team Panathinaikos. The owner of the team had spent some a great deal of money putting together a European championship contender including Croatian center Stojan Vrankovic. Wilkins was the biggest NBA star to ever play in Europe at the time and was greeted by hundreds of fans at the airport.
The entire season Wilkins played like a prima donna, barely putting in the effort. He didn't get a long with the coach, he didn't gel with the team and acted like he was doing the entire continent a big favor by being there. He came through in the teams' two most important games: the semi final with CSKA of Moscow and Barcelona in the Final of the European Championship, helping the team win the European Championship. Most people will say, well isn't that enough? And the answer is no, because if he could have played like that all season, he robbed the fans the moves and stylings they paid all season to see at the home court games.
After the season was over, Wilkins left for the States without letting anyone on the team know. It took a week for the team management and coach to figure out that he had left permanently. Really classy, considering this team he shunned was the only team in his illustrious career that gave him a championship.
in short? douche.
photo of the 1996 European champions: (standing) Dominique Wilkins, Miroslav Petsarski, Stojan Vrankovic, Christos Myriounis, Nikos Economou, (sitting) Vanggelis Vourtzoumis, John Korfas, Panagiotis Giannakis, Frangiskos Alvertis, Tzannis Stavrakopoulos courtesy of this homepage
Posted by jsd at March 13, 2006 10:34 AM
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