Being Ron Artest #NBA

The Lakers dropped their third straight, finished their road trip 0-3, and have their first three game losing streak since they made the trade for Pau Gasol back on February 1, 2008. Fine, whatever, who cares. It doesn't interest me. It’s the NBA and until the snow has melted across the country, the games really don’t mean a whole hell of a lot.

What does interest me is Ron Artest starting to behave like Ron Artest. That could be fun. That will almost certainly be fun. Artest showed up in Orlando yesterday with blonde hair, and the word ‘defense’ carved into his lettuce in three different languages; Japanese, Hebrew and Hindi. Right. Allow me to speculate a little bit and take a wild guess that maybe, maybe, maybe Ron Artest doesn’t speak Japanese, Hebrew, or Hindi. I could be wrong, but I am willing to bet that maybe I’m not.

If they are telling me it says ‘defense’, then I guess it says defense. But I know this; Ron Artest sure as hell doesn’t know for sure what it says. Awesome.

Phil Jackson might ask him to add a different word after the performace he submitted yesterday afternoon.

From the Los Angeles Times:

“He had a struggle tonight. Couldn’t make a shot and everything was a foul of Carter. Ron really didn’t get a chance to play the defense he’s touted to play.”

Ron's response was quintessential Artest, “I’m very happy with the way I played. I take the good with the bad. I played great.” If you say so, Ron.

This is a perfect storm to set Ron off. Criticism from the coach, not playing well, and trying to draw attention to himself with a weak attempt at impersoanting Dennis Rodman. Ron, we have seen this before; you are going to have to find a new stunt. Dying your hair and being crazy is played, it’s old. Even the foreign languages aren’t an original twist. You need to do more.

Let’s hope that the Raptors roll into town on Tuesday night, take the Lakers apart and put Ron one step closer to losing it. He’s on his way. Dyed hair, foreign languages and his coach saying he played poorly. We are only one loser with a plastic cup away from something very interesting taking place.

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