Comments Thread For: Player Fired Over Insulting Pacquiao's Basketball Skills

[KaL-EL]

They should of atleast fined him not fire him.

[Francis M.]

I could understand fining him and/or suspending him but kicking him out of the league is excessive imo.

He didn't get kicked out of the league. His team let him go....

[Sup]

6'11 buck *****s shouldnt be allowed to play ball against or in teams with tiny 5'2 filipinos anyway. it's not fair.

it's why america always wins gold in basketball cause other countries can't produce the durants and bron bron's like we can with our quality fine dining like mickey d's and burger king.

[$tate of Mind]

He didn't get kicked out of the league. His team let him go....

That's still excessive imo.

[alumey457]

That's right. He's just out of the team, not on the league.

[Mr.Fantastic]

Pactards mad. Pac can't even sing for shit and they bought his music.

[Sup]

Pactards mad. Pac can't even sing for shit and they bought his music.

didn't the hynas buy oscar's music?

[Mr.Fantastic]

didn't the hynas buy oscar's music?

Yup. Dumb ones if you ask me.

[PeloKing]

This article is very misleading. The import was fined because he insulted the league itself, not only pacquiao. And he was probably fired because of his very poor performance(6pts, 3reb). He should be playing like lebron james of his team, averaging like 25pts, 10reb as import. It's not unusual for a PBA team to change import after few games considering you can only have one import in a team and there are only 11games in regular season.

[Ryannn]

Just a couple of thoughts:

- Pacquiao is a ****e basketball player compared with the other players in the league. That's no f'cking secret.

- Pacquiao playing/coaching in the pros is a promotional stunt by the expansion team. Everybody knows that

- I don't think Orton was fired just because he insulted Pac. He was fined for it which i think is fairly reasonable if the statement is belittling the league(whether you agree or not with his statement)

- He was fired most likely because he's coming off his worst performance. That and basically calling the league "a joke", its pretty easy for the team to let him go.

- Orton is an idiot and should have known better.

Also, lol at people saying its a violation of freedom of speech. The concept of freedom of speech is the people being protected from political prosecution. People can still be fired for what they say.

I can call my boss an idiot and his actions "a joke" and I probably won't go to jail, but I can be fired for it, regardless if I was right or wrong.