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Maybe we're being a little too old school here, but it's hard to fathom Joe Dumars or Karl Malone or Bill Laimbeer getting into trouble because they forgot to pay for the diamond necklace they ordered.O.J. Mayo needs to man up.
If you're a professional athlete and going to get in trouble, at least make it something like Reggie Miller chasing another man's fianceé, or Jamaal Tinsley getting into a bar fight or Stephen Jackson waving a gun, or even Charles Barkley, 15 years ago, throwing another drunk through a plate-glass window in Orlando.
At least those are macho mistakes.
But a diamond bangle? Sounds too girlie for the NBA. David Robinson and John Stockton must be shaking their heads.
According to the Los Angeles Times, a complaint was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court this week against Mayo, for breach of contract over nearly $150,000 in custom jewelry he ordered but never paid for or picked up.
According to the complaint, the Memphis guard met with representatives of the jewelry store on April 1, 2008, when he supposedly was still going to school at USC and requested some "specially-manufactured" jewelry.
Mayo and the school already were being investigated for alleged payments he had received from both USC representatives and an agent, so apparently he was flashing money around the store.
The order, according to the report, included a diamond ring, a diamond bangle, a diamond necklace, a watch and a bracelet – just not the kind of stuff you would expect to see Bill Russell wearing.
Either Mayo had several high-priced girlfriends, he wanted to make sure he looked nice and shiny on draft night, or maybe he changed his mind and never went back to the store because of the furor caused by the NCAA investigation.
Mayo was picked No. 3 in the NBA Draft by the Memphis Grizzlies less than three months later, signing a rookie contract worth close to $11 million over three years. Maybe he used the money to buy a big pickup truck instead.
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