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Punishing players for a car accident?

January 30, 2008

The news of Euroleague.net on Monday did not look like something special. Now, that I read some rumors on several forums and web sites the news statement makes much more sense to me. This is what Euroleague.net published: Tau Ceramica announced on Monday that four of its players were uninjured in an overnight car accident. The players were Will McDonald, Lucho Fernández, Simas Jasaitis and Pete Mickeal, who had been injured in the team’s last game, against CSKA Moscow last Wednesday, Mickeal had missed three weeks previously due to a muscle tear in his right thigh. After playing 2 minutes against CSKA, he left the court with pain in his left calf muscle. Doctors found another muscle tear was found and prescribed a 10- to 15-day rest period for Mickeal, taking him out of the last Euroleague regular season game and the upcoming Spanish King’s Cup tournament. While awaiting all necessary details about the car accident, the club said it expects to open an investigation and, if appropriate, sanction the players “as heavily as regulations allow”.

Doesn’t it sound weird that  the club thinks about “sanction the players as heavily as regulations allow?” For getting in an car accident?

So back to the rumors that are around the net. It is said that the players have been drunk. OK – rumors are made pretty fast and a car accident related to alcohol is always easy to say but it might make sense when the club thinks about sanction the players as heavily a regulations allow right?

We will keep following the story – if they really have been drunk, everybody will know anyway.

Jan 30, 2008ballineurope
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Comments: 5
  1. caaprius
    17 years ago

    Jasaitis was driving a car, 5.30 am in the morning. Drunk or not, but what are you doing at that time in a car? Riding to supermarket to buy some juice? Don’t think so.

    Jasaitis is known for his behaviour off the court. And it looks like he likes spending time in night clubs more than draining threes in the basket.

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  2. Arkadios
    17 years ago

    Maybe they were returning from a swingers party?

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  3. Steve
    17 years ago

    Look, maybe the club wants a good excuse to terminate some contracts, and this might be an easy way out for the club. Now is a good time to cut a couple of guys and try to swing in a test drive for some hot young prospect, or some bigman for the playoffs.

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  4. Kerem
    17 years ago

    They’re only allowed to punish them if the players who were in the accident were injured, which makes sense since they’re responsible for NOT getting injured, you can’t punish players for enjoying themselves..

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  5. Tobias
    17 years ago

    I do know that some contracts tell you to be home by 12 or that you are representing the club 24/7 – this is why you have to behave a certain way. So somehow you can punish players for not acting how you as a club manager or owner want it.

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