https://grantland.com/features/a-los-angeles-lakers-rumor-spurs-writer-look-back-rasheed-wallace-nba-career/ What, you didn’t know? by Jay Caspian Kang on March 20, 2012  The week before the All-Star break, several news outlets reported that Rasheed Wallace had come out of retirement to play with the Lakers . That news turned out to be nothing but another Internet rumor, but it got me thinking about Rasheed’s career. Over two years in Chapel Hill and 15 more in the NBA, Rasheed Wallace was a study in negative space . His histrionics provided fans and media with a very sports-talkable, “polarizing” figure, but the fascination with Rasheed, especially in his later years, usually didn’t come from what he did on the court, his various “off-the-court troubles,” or even what police officers might have found in his car. Because there was such a profound, seemingly meaningful distance between the “ Ball Don’t Lie” Rasheed — a gregarious, hysterical guy who probably cared about basketbal...

https://grantland.com/features/an-oral-history-malice-palace/ An oral history of the scariest moment in NBA history. BY  JONATHAN ABRAMS  - Grantland - ON MARCH 20, 2012 “I think a lot of us made a lot of selfish decisions that day.  I made a selfish decision to stop trying to break it up and to confront Lindsey Hunter and Richard Hamilton.  That was my selfish decision.  Ron made a selfish decision by going into the stands.  We all made selfish decisions, but at the same time, we were protecting each other.  It’s kind of hard to see if that’s right or wrong.”      — Stephen Jackson The images are just as striking almost a decade later . A cup splashes off Ron Artest in the closing moments of a blowout win against the Detroit Pistons . He leaps into the stands at the Palace of Auburn Hills and into sports infamy . Mayhem follows. Players fight fans, fans fight players, a chair is thrown, bottles are tossed — in seconds, the invisible wa...