Seattle PF/C Danny Fortson tells the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that he has hurt feelings to go along with his hurt toe.
Danny Fortson has hobbled through much of training camp, hampered by an arthritic right toe. After Tuesday’s practice, though, the forlorn Sonics forward addressed another sore spot: a report in Monday’s The Seattle Times, in which an unnamed teammate suggested the team had “two sets of rules … one for Danny and one for everybody else.”He said Tuesday that he did not know which teammate made the comment, other than that it must have been “someone with a big mouth.”
Y’know what? There’s a lot to go over here – Danny Pigtails has lost his mind. More after the salad.
“If it’s a captain who said that, like Ray [Allen] or Rashard [Lewis], it’s going to make me feel like I should get out of here,” Fortson said. “Of course I’m out of shape. I can’t work out. I have a sore toe.
“It’s too bad, man. It puts a damper on my whole day. It makes me feel like they don’t want me here. I don’t know who to believe anymore. I’m very uncomfortable.”
Fortson, who was suspended by both the NBA and the Sonics last season, has shown sensitivity to public comments before. Two seasons ago, Fortson was suspended for three games after his flagrant foul against Zarko Cabarkapa broke the Phoenix Suns rookie’s wrist. Afterward, Suns chairman and CEO Jerry Colangelo called Fortson a “thug.” New York Post columnist Peter Vecsey referred to him as a “meaningless mass” and “vacant lot.”
Fortson filed defamation lawsuits against both men. Asked if the cases were still active, Fortson said: “Very much so.” He said Colangelo is set to take a deposition this month.
“Be careful,” he said. “Whoever’s saying anything bad about Danny Fortson that’s not true is going to be held accountable.”
We found more good quotes here:
“Come to me as a man,” Fortson said. “If you have a problem with me, come say something. Don’t go to the newspaper like some little girl. That’s something my little daughter does. She’s a tattletale right now and I’m trying to teach her not to be a tattletale.
“I think somebody on this team might have girlish characteristics that need to be turned into a man. Because if we’re going to win, we need warriors. We don’t need girls. Girls are for the dance team.”
Danny? Your pigtails are silly.
Suing people for calling you names is silly.
Insulting the dance team is silly. (and dumb!)
Broken toes are silly.
Danny Fortson is silly.
There’s just one question we want to ask Danny Fortson, and we’ll be a man about it. Can you guess what that question is?
(We’re working on it. For reals – stay tuned!)
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