Milwaukee Bucks coach Jason Kidd is upset with his team, and it has nothing to do with what they’re doing on the court (which is being generally awful at the whole basketball thing).
TMZ Sports reported that four players — Greg Monroe, O.J. Mayo, Khris Middleton and Miles Plumlee — enjoyed a relaxing night at the strip club Ace of Diamonds L.A. that bled into the early-morning hours. The players were reportedly at the venue until 2 a.m. Wednesday before the Bucks were set to play the Lakers, who rolled to a 113-95 win that same night. An 18-point loss to the Lakers seems embarrassing on the surface, but it’s tough to grip and shoot a basketball when your hands still have glitter on them.
CF Gardner of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel relayed Kidd’s response to the strip club report.
Kidd on 4 players at strip club night before Lakers: "This is a young team learning to be professional."
— cfgardner (@cf_gardner) December 17, 2015
Kidd on players in road cities: "You're going to go have dinner and you have to be responsible."
— cfgardner (@cf_gardner) December 17, 2015
Asked if any internal discipline for 4, Kidd said: "We had that discussion today, so that was enough discipline to have to listen to me."
— cfgardner (@cf_gardner) December 17, 2015
This seems like a controversy, an example of rich youths irresponsibly tossing around their money. But really, what did they do wrong? No one seemed to be mistreating the women or starting fights. They were at the club until 2 a.m., not 2 p.m., and because athletes work at night, they had 15 hours to recover from looking at naked girls. Oh, the horror!
The Bucks could’ve gone for a team dinner at In-N-Out Burger, went to bed at 9 p.m. and they still would’ve awakened the following day a bad team. The true criminal in this story is the person filming at a strip club, which violates all kinds of rules of being a patron and human being.
(TMZ)