Spitfire15 Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 i <3 u IOU. /yeshomo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOU Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 i <3 u IOU. /yeshomo. That right there is 1000x worse than the mom joke... /yesphobic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fat ralphy Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 Former NBA Player Eddie Griffin Dies in Collision With Train By Erik Matuszewski Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Eddie Griffin, who played five seasons in the National Basketball Association, died last week when the sports-utility vehicle he was driving collided with a moving train in Houston, authorities said. He was 25. Dental comparisons were used today to identify Griffin, whose body was badly burned in the crash, Jennifer Coston, deputy chief of investigations at the Harris County, Texas, medical examiner's office, said in a telephone interview. Griffin disregarded a warning signal, drove through a railroad arm and struck the side of a moving freight train on Aug. 17, according to a news release from the Houston Police Department. Griffin's vehicle was consumed by flames, and he died at the scene. The 6-foot-10 Griffin spent last season with the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves, playing in 13 games as a reserve and averaging 1.4 points and 1.9 rebounds. He received a five-game suspension from the league in January for violating the NBA's anti-drug program. Griffin had off-court problems since joining the NBA as a first-round pick in the 2001 draft out of Seton Hall University. He spent time at an alcohol-treatment center in 2003-04, was convicted of marijuana possession in January 2004, and got suspended for the first three games of the 2004-05 NBA season after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge. Griffin, who spent his first two NBA seasons with the Houston Rockets and New Jersey Nets, was released by the Timberwolves in March. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOU Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 From Yahoo.. Seven years ago, the priest talking on the telephone insisted that he had done his best to spare a young basketball star, Eddie Griffin, a tumultuous tomorrow. Three weeks until graduation at Roman Catholic in Philadelphia, and the No. 1 high school player in America had flipped out in a lunch room fistfight. The principal, Rev. Paul Brant, expelled him, assigning Griffin a home tutor for his final assignments. "What if we hadn't done it?" Father Brant told me then. "That was my biggest concern. If we hadn't let him know he had to take responsibility for his actions, later in life when he became a pro athlete, what would happen when he was faced with circumstances where he had to be accountable?" For all the Father's best intentions and blessings, there never was salvation for this lost soul. Never peace. For all his great promise, there always was greater disappointment. For all the sheer talent within those 6 feet, 10 inches, Eddie Griffin never was wired to be a basketball star. ADVERTISEMENT "When I watched him this season," one general manager told me on draft day in 2001, "the court always looked like the last place he wanted to be." All the sadness and confusion over his five torturous seasons in the NBA chased him to his final moments Friday in Houston, when Griffin barreled through a blinking warning and a barrier and exploded his SUV into a runaway freight train. The flames burned him beyond recognition. They had to chase down dental records to confirm Griffin, 25, had been the driver with a death wish. From someone who knew him well Tuesday night, his was a belief there was a "strong possibility" that this was exactly how poor, tortured Eddie Griffin chose to end it all. He fought moods and depression and booze. The NBA suspended him for violating its drug policy midway through last season, and finally Minnesota Timberwolves president Kevin McHale stopped believing he could salvage Griffin's career, his life. He gave up, too. McHale had made Griffin his personal project. He believed in the sweetness that could be found free of the bottle with Griffin. He gave him a locker next to Kevin Garnett and tutored Griffin himself, but his unmoved student never had a love for the game to ultimately fight for a career. Griffin knew his talent tantalized people and fooled them as long as he could. Despite getting thrown out of high school, despite chasing a Seton Hall teammate to the halftime locker room and slugging him in the eye for freezing him out – despite it all – the Houston Rockets still traded three first-round draft picks to the New Jersey Nets for the rights to the seventh pick in the 2001 draft. Everything about Griffin suggested that he was destined to be a bust, but his promise intoxicated Rudy Tomjanovich. There always was someone to pick up Griffin, always someone to believe that they could find the doctors to treat him, the mentors to reach him. There was a beating and a shooting of a woman at his Houston home, and that was that as the future franchise star for Houston. When the Rockets gave up in 2004, the Nets signed him for a month before that experiment fell apart when Griffin wouldn't stop pounding on the hotel door of a bride and groom whose wedding he crashed at a North Jersey hotel. There was an assault at a gas station in Houston at 3 a.m. one night, and after that, a crazy car accident while watching a dirty movie in his SUV. The stories got wilder and wilder with Eddie Griffin. You almost could start seeing that train coming down the tracks. "Alcohol always got in the way," Rusty Hardin, his attorney, told the Houston Chronicle Tuesday night. Around the NBA this summer, there was no one trying to sign Eddie Griffin. He was 25 years old, out of chances, and there was Eddie Griffin on the 5300 block of Lawndale in the darkness of a Houston night. He crashed through those blinking red lights, the lowered barrier, and maybe this was how it always was going to end for this poor, tortured soul. Yes, that train had been thundering down the tracks. Adrian Wojnarowski is the national NBA columnist for Yahoo! Sports. Send Adrian a question or comment for potential use in a future column or webcast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xlando Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 shiet man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Jefe Uno Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 Hahahaahaha People asking if Cosby died.. that shit happened in March b! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawood Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 inna lillahe wa inna layhe rajioon. (From god we come and to God we return) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tails0nE Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 both of them died have some respect idiot they just showed on the news the car eddie griffin crashed and died in naw man ya'll got it twisted... some basketball nigga died... eddie griffin the actor is still living.. that car above was crashed in a lil promotional thing for his lil racing movie thing... him, bow wow, and jermaine dupree were doing timed laps and whoever was the fastest got like $100,000 donated to any charity of their choice... and eddie went to fast on a turn and crashed.... i saw it on tv... and it was funny as hell to be honest... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth MontgomeryOner Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 Well I hope he wasn't doing this again On March 30' date=' 2006, Griffin was involved in a bizarre car crash. Witnesses and friends stated that he was watching a "porn movie on a DVD in his vehicle, and was masturbating". After the accident, Griffin entered a nearby convenience store. The store's security camera recorded video of Griffin repeatedly saying he was drunk, that he didn't have a driver's license, and pleading with the man whose S.U.V he crashed into, offering to buy him a new car in exchange for not calling the police. Police eventually did arrive, however, but allegedly did not require Griffin to submit to a breathalyser test or field sobriety test. An investigation was conducted to determine if the officers violated standard protocol in light of Griffin's celebrity status.[/quote'] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornpone Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 he died? no, bill cosby just turned 70 in july... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire15 Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 naw man ya'll got it twisted... some basketball nigga died... eddie griffin the actor is still living.. that car above was crashed in a lil promotional thing for his lil racing movie thing... him, bow wow, and jermaine dupree were doing timed laps and whoever was the fastest got like $100,000 donated to any charity of their choice... and eddie went to fast on a turn and crashed.... i saw it on tv... and it was funny as hell to be honest... WAIT. WHAT, WHAT?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deterrent Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 Eddy griffen was hillarious, this thread is so rasist, talking about other african-americas that have died just cus eddy was black. Eddy deserves this thread for himself. Unless the title of the thread changes to Dead Black People Appreciation Hullabaloo Thread In which case mad props and RIPs to: Bill Cosby Malcolm X Arethra Frankly Nat Turner Uncle Tom Majic Johnson Guy that invented peanutbutter Nelson Mandela and if I missed anyone... eh my bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
count chocula Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 CaCash does graphic work for the fuzz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-_67_- Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 Bill Cosby is stil alive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blart.BOS Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 http://www.billcosby.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 70?...thats an old mofo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo Huxtable. Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 Bill Cosby was shot in the head by a Russian immigrant near Mulholland Drive off the 405 freeway in Los Angeles while changing a flat tire. Eddie Griffin died running his Ferrari into an oncoming freight train. RIP B-Coz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunnedDown Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 hey dumb shits!!! eddie griffin the BASKET BALL player died. NOT the ACTOR EDDIE GRIFFIN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deterrent Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 Belleb dis: Your the dumbshit. Now getoff idiot! RIP BLACK COMEDY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire15 Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 REAST IN PARADISE MAN! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fondles Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 rip cosby and griffin, u were both mad funny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo Huxtable. Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 hey dumb shits!!! eddie griffin the BASKET BALL player died. NOT the ACTOR EDDIE GRIFFIN yo have some respect man eddie griffin was a funny ass nigga and i don't think he'd appreciate people desecrating his grave. you will be missed, and cherished in our hearts forever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CACashRefund Posted August 23, 2007 Author Share Posted August 23, 2007 RIP TO MY BLACK BROTHAS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
young pores Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 THAT NIGGA WAS GOOD IN NORBIT!!!! ONCE A PIMP ALWAYS A PIMP HAHA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mauler5150 Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 Somebody actually watched Norbit?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cellphone Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 no, bill cosby just turned 70 in july... i was gonna say thanks :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
23rakim45 Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 Hah hah, people still think Eddie Griffin the actor died. Does anybody read these days? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire15 Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 Show some respect you faggot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deterrent Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 Seriously this talk of the dead being alive is like walking to their homes and throwing shit. We don't come to your house and throw shit, so stay out of thiers or come with respect. RIP Grif/Cos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarantula Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 you guys are so fuckin dumb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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