I was listening to the show when the guy called in and he said that he had heard that another caller during the morning show had called in and said AR was supposedly at a club. First off the story is already into a 3rd of 4th recalling of it. The main question is the guy isn’t allowed to go out at all? I don’t think this has anything to do with his character or work ethic because the guy was an animal this off-season & in the gym with Morrow working on his game all summer. So much so that USA Basketball gave him an invite but all that is forgotten b/c the guys was seen out at a club? Plus I remember both calls (Nellie show and Original Call) and it wasn’t like AR was going crazy and pulling a PAC-Man at the club, the guy was just sitting at his table with his friends. Is that not allowed anymore?

Plus, as for supporting the team, I always see AR in the Corridor behind the Dubs bench along with Azabuike. So just because they aren’t on the bench doesn’t mean that they aren’t there in the building. But since we don’t see them we assume that they want nothing to do with the team…

I just think this organization has bigger problems and seeing AR out isn’t necessarily one of them. Or did we forget that many of these guys are in there early 20’s…

From the way Nellie sounded it just seemed like he was making that rule up on the fly…Maybe it was just me but it didn’t seem like it was ever an issue before that caller.

It’s not like this is something new, or something that’s confined to the younger guys, either… both Jack and Maggette skipped the vast majority of the games they were injured for last season. Frankly, this rule should’ve been put in place a while ago.

Many have not been with the team during their rehabilitations, including Raja Bell, who has been in Miami since his Dec. 3 wrist surgery. Bell is expected to rejoin the team Tuesday.

Does that mean?

It was absolutely disgraceful last year when many players like Jackson and Ellis were absent on FAN APPRECIATION NIGHT of all nights. If I remember correctly, Crawford was one of the only veterans there to support the team – doing a classy thing that basically wrote him off by publicly saying that they would try to trade him if he didn’t opt out.

Being on the bench for your team serves lots of purposes, but the two that stand out for me are that 1) it boosts morale to see your teammates rooting for you, and 2) it lets the players look at the game from another angle, which leads to LEARNING more about the game. Even Maggette and Ellis, our top two scorers, have a bit to learn about the game (like court vision, defense, awareness, etc).

Inmates running the asylum b/c management is too busy trying to screw the fans and ownership too concerned about profit to worry about what the players are doing.

Here’s my question: If this is/has been a looming problem, why is it public? Doesn’t Nellie know if someone should be on the bench during game-time? Can he not speak to AR et al privately if there is an issue?

It’s just another example of a senile, old, confused man who should be playing poker and drinking scotch on the beach in Maui rather than trying to run an NBA team.