Pierre Pierce Going to France to Play?
Is this even blog worthy material? I question it myself but I have a two part take on this. Pierce was one of the best players in the BIG TEN a few years ago and was a marginal NBA prospect. He was the best player on the Iowa team that was then coached by Steve Alford.
He is on probation for a January 2005 incident at the West Des Moines home of a former girlfriend. The charges resulted in his being kicked off the Iowa basketball team. At the time, Pierce was the third-leading scorer in the Big Ten. Pierce led the Hawkeyes with 16.1 points a game as a sophomore in 2003-04.
He pleaded guilty in August 2005 to third-degree burglary, false imprisonment, assault with intent to commit sexual abuse and criminal trespass.
He served 11 months in prison at the Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility before he was released in September 2006.
Pierce was sentenced in April to 30 days in jail for violating his probation while playing in an NBA summer league in Las Vegas.
How’s that for a guy with issues? Somehow though he gets to leave the country to finish out his probation.
Here’s my take on it…should he be allowed to go? No he shouldn’t. Should we care that he leaves though? No. Let’s get Pierre (french name) out of our country and into France. Let them deal with a guy who got another break somehow and they can have him. I have an idea…Make the deal contingent on him getting French citizenship. I love it. I don’t know why the state of Iowa isn’t happy about this. The State Supreme Court saw it like i did and were probably mumbling to each other happily about having the guy leave. They wouldn’t let him go to Kansas or Missouri or even Utah but they’ll let him leave the country. Great idea.
Pierce has signed a 120,000 dollar contract with a team in France and is ‘reportedly’ very excited to leave. Sure beats the no payment basketball he got while serving his 11 months.
I’m not about to shoot anyone down for serving their time for the punishment and getting their life back together. I am about giving someone the chance when they haven’t finished serving out their time yet. It’s like ungrounding my kid for breaking a rule because her friend wants to take her to the mall. What does she learn? What will Pierre learn? Whatever it is I hope he learns it quick so we dont have an international event on our hands.
October 10th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
he did his jail term what else do u want him to go through, i really think this is just a case of hating!
October 13th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
HATING? Pierre Pierce doesn’t warrant enough of anything to ‘hate’. I just want the guy to be treated like anyone else would. He is on probation for a certain amount of time and now gets to go to a foreign country to serve that. That’s not hating, that’s me thinking that wouldn’t happen to your average person who holds someone captive and beats them, that’s all. I’m happy for Pierre is he got his life turned around but history has shown that when you allow someone to skate by they feel like they can do anything and then next thing you know you have OJ or Lawrence Phillips. That’’s not being a hater.
April 30th, 2009 at 5:40 am
OJ AND LAWRENCE PHILLIPS WEREN’T PLAYING AT THE TIME PLUS HE SERVED AN EXTRA 30 IN JAIL THANK YOU HATERS! JUST TO MAKE EVERYTHING GOOD SO, HE COULD GO OVER SEAS. NOT TO MENTION THE PROPER AND REGULAR HEARINGS TO GET PERMISSION TO GO SO, SHUT UP. THEY ARE TREATING HIM LIKE A NORMAL PERSON, HE GETS WORK REALEASE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE AND HAS TO PERMISSION FROM A JUDGE TO GO WITH A PROBITION OFFICER WHO’S WITH HIM AT ALL TIMES WHEREVER HE GOES. LAST THING DON’T HATE ON HIM BECAUSE HIS JOB IS TO PLAY BASKETBALL, DO MAD AT A BASKETBALL COACH FOR BEING A COACH? OR I GYM TEACHER FOR TEACHING GYM? THE ANSWERS NO! THEY’RE ALL THE SAME
May 1st, 2009 at 11:09 am
Love the All caps Adrian. I’m not being a hater at all. It’s just if a guy is a construction worker and commits the same crime he isn’t going to be allowed to go to France because they are building a lot of buildings. I understand that he’s a basketball player. I understand people get work release. Show me several other cases where someone with a regular job gets to go to a foreign country for work release and I’ll be happy.