NBA Player Watching Porn, Drunk Before Crash: Claim Targets Minnesota Timberwolves’ Eddie Griffin
I may just be guilty of being overly simplistic, but I was always taught that when you’re driving you generally want to keep the distractions to a minimum. This means that tooling down University Avenue in Minneapolis while watching porn on your dash-mounted TV and…uh…engaging in a bit of self-gratification probably isn’t going to turn out so well. Man, talk about things that just shouldn’t go together.
Of course, it would be bad enough engaging in this sort of behavior if you’re just a regular Joe. If, however, you happen to be an NBA basketball player…well, gentleman, start your tabloids! Especially when Eddie Griffin hasn’t exactly been the poster boy for mature, professional, off-court behavior. Yep, immature and built to stay that way….
(CBS) MINNEAPOLIS On March 30, Minnesota Timberwolves center Eddie Griffin was drunk and masturbating when he crashed his luxury SUV into a parked Suburban outside a store in Minneapolis, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday by the man whose Suburban was hit in the crash.
WCCO-TV obtained copies of 911 calls and store surveillance video of the incident, along with an accident report the police submitted to the state, reports WCCO-TV’s Caroline Lowe.
Several of the 911 callers that night said Griffin was drunk. One witness said Griffin told him he was watching pornography in a DVD player mounted on the dashboard of his Cadillac Escalade SUV when he struck a Chevy Suburban parked on University Avenue Southeast.
The location where Griffin crashed is located a couple miles from the Target Center where Griffin had played with his team several hours earlier.
Abed Hassuneh, who is the brother of the victim, said Griffin told him, “That he was masturbating himself going down that street. That’s how the accident happened because he was not paying attention. He’s paying attention to that video and all of a sudden he’s shoveled somebody’s car on the top of the sidewalk.”
Griffin is the answer to this question: “What happens when you give an immature DUMB@$$ too much talent, WAY too much money, and not nearly enough common sense?” Perhaps it’s time for someone to get a real job so he can come to grips with how much he’s pissed away.
Jeebus, Eddie; you’re an adult. Isn’t about time you started acting like one??
