Can you believe Ron Artest????????? If this is true, this guy is an IDIOT. Good for Ray Allen to call it like it is.

"Ray Allen has an inkling of what Ron Artest was thinking. Well, sort of. The Sonics guard was shocked to hear that the Indiana forward (Artest) was benched for the past two games after asking coach Rick Carlisle for time off because of a busy schedule that included promoting an upcoming rap album. "I've had people ask me to go shoot a commercial in L.A., and that stopped right at me," Allen said. "I wouldn't even fix my mouth to ask anybody else. No. 1, they weren't paying me anything. And two, they asked me to miss two games, and I know how much I would be fined if I missed two games."