Today's I'm A Knucklehead Award goes to Joakim Noah, who somehow managed to run afoul of the law twice in a matter of hours last weekend.
Noah was already the biggest flake in the NBA, but this little episode put real distance between him and any pursuers. I mean, really, first he gets tagged for violating Gainesville's open-container law (and having a joint on his person), then he gets arrested for speeding and driving with a suspended license.
More disturbing was the reaction of Joakim's dad, former tennis star Yannick Noah, who basically took a boys-will-be-boys attitude toward his son's transgressions. The suspicion among media types always was that Joakim was your basic spoiled-rotten celebrity brat, but this seemed to confirm it.
Not to say shed a little light on why the kid's such a knucklehead.
-- Ben Smith
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