Wow, talk about a rush to judgment.
Can we wait until the facts come in before cutting him?
He's been arrested and there would be probable cause to do so. In addition, not only was strangulation one of the allegations, but the female sustained injuries significant enough to be treated at a hospital. Not sure what facts do you think would could out that will exonerate him. Once more details are released via arrest form I would wager that it will make Bird look even worse.
Yeah, I'm having trouble seeing Bird coming out of this clean & it all being chalked up to some sort of a simple misunderstanding.
Innocent until proven guilty but the stuff that's come out so far don't look promising in Bird's favor.
I mean, I suppose best-case scenario would be something like Bird has a previously-diagnosed mental health condition and either there was a change in his medication or something interacted with his medication in a negative way. Assuming the other person isn't hurt too badly (and I have no information on which to base that assumption) I could see the team giving him some time to focus on getting right with his doctor and letting him come back in a few weeks with the equivalent of a doctor's note if that were the case, particularly given the league's recent focus on mental health.
Lol no one is going to accept a bad reaction to medication as an excuse for putting a woman in the hospital.
Forget basketball, Jailbari will be lucky to keep his freedom..
People routinely commit more severe acts of violence without legal ramifications. The mental health court system intervenes and requires a patient be compliant with community mental health teatment; when they aren't, they're involuntarily committed to a state inpatient psychiatric hospital.
The mental health defense is going to be a tough sell without any history of it. Fairly certain if Bird had any issues the team would have been privy to it (hipaa be [dang]ed) and wouldn't have signed him. You just don't take that risk for a bench warmer.
Yeah, it's pretty unlikely that Bird is psychotic and no one has noticed, I was just responding to the poster above. There are some interesting scenarios that make for good arguments. Hard to parse psychopathology from criminal behavior, and then draw a subjective line for punishment somewhere
its very possible he is psychotic. Or has mental issues. A nonexistent history doesn’t mean anything. Remember keyon doolings issue? Or Delonte west? Royce white. Kevin loves Mental health problems in nba players are real, and a lot of times these people hide it for fear
It is possible that he has serious mental illness, like psychosis -- I just looked and he actually just turned 24 in July, where it could be his first major episode.
I think most would argue one has mental health issues to strangle/kidnap someone, right? Or am I wrong there? I remember trying to keep quiet about Aaron Hernandez's mental health even after his suicide because most people understandably found his behavior stomach churning. But to be fair, he was also a very sick person.
