The controversy: rapper/actor-producer/avant-garde comedian (?) Lil’ Wayne was denied access to Thursday’s Game 3 between the Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs. Like anybody with a bone to pick and a night in Oklahoma City with nothing better to do, Weezy took to Twitter to voice his displeasure and derisively S his H for seven million people.
How could this happen? Wayne’s followers have their theories:
I was with the boots lady at first, but it turns out the answer is even more obvious: he didn’t have a ticket. From the Associated Press:
“Thunder spokesman Dan Mahoney says Lil Wayne’s representatives did contact the team requesting tickets but insisted that he sit on the front row, and none of those seats was available. Oklahoma City sold out every home game during the regular season and playoffs this season. Mahoney says: ‘We’d love to have him at a game, but like anyone else, he needs a ticket.’”
I think they should’ve accommodated him. If he wants to get in so badly and see Kobe Bryant play (and I fully believe Wayne thinks Kobe plays for whatever team is currently winning), let him sit in somebody’s lap in the front row and peacefully listen to whatever god-awful Birdman track he’s got pumping through his diamond headphones while the game goes down. Better yet, let him sit criss-cross applesauce in the middle of the court and clap his hands while basketball players run by.
This is more or less another “Puffy Daddy’s son gets a $50,000 a year scholarship to UCLA” situation. If you have a ton of money (and we know you do), pay for your son’s college. Buy a ticket to the basketball game before you show up at the front gate at the last minute demanding to sit in the front row. Use your money for something better than video props and projectiles to hurl at strippers.
And don’t pretend like you’re rooting for the Spurs now. Nobody’s rooting for the Spurs.
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He should be allowed to sit on the backboard like Mars Blackmon.
He tried to pull this in Indy for the Pacers/Heat series, too. They offered him a suite, but he wasn’t having it. What kind of asshole refuses a suite?
Well. When you have been pampered and given everything you could possibly ask for since before you could legally drive, how could you be expected to understand how the real world operates.
Wayne is as real as Tooth Fairy.
Damn you, Burnsy. [shakes fist in the direction of Florida]
Headline made me hopefully HHH hit Wayne in the face with a sledgehammer :(
Nobody is rooting for the Spurs? The best team of the year by a fucking mile to watch and nobody is rooting for them?
Did they do something against one of your wrestling gay icons like Daniel Bryan or something?
How could you not root for the spurs?
because jokes
also, you have a +Rhodes badge on your account, so don’t try throwing shit like “wrestling gay icons” at me randomly in a basketball post
I’m with on Lil Zane (opps, wrong rapper) buying a ticket. But don’t follow on the Puffy’s kid thing. If the kid earned a scholarship through academics and sports then it’s his. I’m sure there are plenty of kids who go to Harvard on scholarship and their parents are millionaires…they just don’t get the same flak because they aren’t on video pouring $500 bottles of champagne on womens tit-tays.
Pretty poor comparison with the Diddy scholarship thing. The kid earned a merit based scholarship busting his ass on the field and in the classroom. He’s not taking need based financial aid. Weezy expecting a ticket because he’s used to getting what he wants is a pretty far cry from that.
WHOA! Don’t be comparing this to Puffy Daddy’s kid. Junior earned a scholarship through hardwork on and off the field. If/when he makes the team, he will bring in a shit ton more money than that scholarship. And if Diddy has half a brain,which he does most of the time, we can all expect a scholarship fund or some large donations in the future. Everyone will win in the long term.
As for Weezy, well, fuck him and his self entitled ass and fuck the Lakers. Reading between the lines, it sounds like the Lakers just give those nice expensive seats to celebs for free.
“..none of those seats was available.”
You guys really love Puff Daddy’s kid suddenly.
It’s not like he’s responsible for the things Puff Daddy has done.
I wasn’t ragging on him for doing bad Zeppelin covers for Godzilla soundtracks, I just think it’s pretty dumb to think UCLA thought “we’re going to reward this great hard-working football star!” and not “hey, puff daddy’s son”
I will NEVER forgive Puff for that god awful Zeppelin song. Listening to it is the equivalent of someone taking a massive, greasy dump into your ears.
Man, lay of Puffy / Diddy / P Doodely’s kid already. UCLA doesn’t need the notoriety of having his kid there to offer a free ride if the kid doesn’t deserve one. Besides, if his dad where really interested in his son’s education he wouldn’t be paying for him to go to UCLA, he’d be paying for him to go to an Ivy League school. Or better yet, just to show off how rich he actually is, he’d build his own college and hire Stephen Hawking and Neil Degrasse Tyson to teach science.
Yeah, like Diddy isn’t going to donate UCLA large sums of money anyway just because his kid is going there. That there is even an argument about this is rediculous, it’s about what his kid is earning and doing for himself, not his dad. If his dad bought his way onto a team somewhere, people would throw a fit, but he didn’t, he earned it, and people are still throwing a fit. Better for him to make a life for himself and show people he can do it on his own, right? Yes he had more advantages then any of us growing up, but still, let him show he can be successful in his own right and not lean on his dad. Sorry, I’m going to go back to not giving a crap about celebrities and their families now, so many poop jokes to laugh at, so little time.
Both of Michael Jordan’s sons got scholarships as did Joe Montana’s son. It’s pretty common to hear about athlete’s children getting scholarships to schools despite the amount of money their parents may have made as professional athletes.
so to hear about an entertainer’s kid getting one might raise eyebrows but is it really that different than a child of an athlete? or does it say more about the system that is in place which hands out a free education to someone who is already well off?
Actually, the reason why Puff Daddy’s kid (who by all accounts certainly deserves it) should forgo his scholarship is because there are a finite number of scholarships available, and if UCLA was able to bring in another scholarship player that they wouldn’t be able to recruit otherwise, they might suck incrementally less.
Zack is right – Garth Brooks’ daughter forego a scholarship so that some deserving player could have it. The NCAA only allows so many athletic scholarships.
The sad part of it is – she also wasn’t allowed to do stuff that other scholarship athletes got to do (as a walk-on, they are treated differently – an incredibly ridiculous NCAA rule)
However, a multi-millionaire did the right thing for his alma mater AND another youth – HE could afford the tuition and let some other kid have the scholarship who really needed it.
It makes me sick to see a lot of stars who get free stuff (for them and their families) while other people do without.