Posted on June 24th, 2008 by Agent 47
It’s almost as if some athletes are doomed with the police shadow on their backs, and here’s another professional player that has being on the black list for a while: Carmelo Anthony.
The 24 year-old player from the Nuggets got arrested and went to court due to a DUI (driving under influence) charge and will have to spend one year in probation and serve some community service hours. His lawyer Dan Recht said that the NBA All-Star would have gotten a better deal if he wasn’t a public figure, as there is a tendency from the US legal system to be tough with celebrities.
This is just one of a series of incidents involving Carmelo Anthony, so let’s name a few others: back in 2004 he appeared in a stree video called “stop snitching” warning people from going to the police with incriminatory information, the same year he got caught with marijuana hidden inside his backpack, and just last season, Anthony threw a few punches in a brawl at the Madison Square Garden.
Carmelo Anthony got chosen to play with the USA national Basketball Team at the coming Beijing Olympics, hopefully he will be making more headlines soon but positive ones that is.
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