Violence In Sports
purchase a pair of shoes endorsed by him?
So if they don't suspend him then he is "getting away with it", and many people would ask why. The answer is because he is a wealthy, talented basketball player that can get away with choking his own coach. The NBA and the Golden State Warriors had a large problem on their hands that needed to be resolved. How would other NBA players feel about having a violent player on the opposing team? If a player would choke his own coach who knows what he would do. Latrell Spreewell posed a potential threat to the NBA and his own teammates.
Public relations play a large role in this as well. If a team does not have good public relations it will be in great financial danger. Players are celebrities, and just like in Hollywood, if you do something bad and the general public does not like you, they will not go see your new movie or television show. Having good public relations is a necessity because it generates the income that the team has. If the Chicago Bulls were seen as a bad team with a bad reputation, the public would not accept their merchandise, tickets, and other endorsements. Despite
popular belief, money does make the world go around and without it, the decision to be made about Latrell Spreewell would have been a lot easier to make although it has already been made. If a regular layperson were to strike their boss, they would have been fired immediately, no questions asked. But since there
is so much money being handled in the NBA as well as every other professional sports, it changes the whole approach to the problem.
I believe that violence in sports and violence in the name of a sport team or player will never cease to end. Fans will always be rowdy, players will have short tempers and misfortunate problems but parents fighting against other teams' parents is just ridiculous. Parents tell there children what is right and wrong and if someone were to tell their child not to be violent and then they go and fight with the other teams parents that is showing the child that it is alright to fight in the name of the game.. What we all forget is that it is all a game, unless you're making the millions of dollars a year to play it. Then that game becomes life and then they're exceptions, but not always. I think if all teams went to group therapy with each other then that might just relieve some stress and take some time to think out their problems and to leave them at home and not to bring them to the court. Let me see here.