Why have you forsaken me??!!

Etan is a tedious, insufferable joke...and I read that Dave Zirin interview- wow, he has that delightful combination of being both smug and unfunny.

Regardless of where you stand on Etan, it's pretty clear he needs to play in Washington. I can't imagine this speech going over the same way if he delivered it in, say, Milwaukee.

Etan...what an embarrassment. First, it's embarrassing how much he's paid when he's a well-below average basketball player. Now we all know that he's a left-wing lunatic wannabe activist. Just keep your ignorant opinions to yourself so some fans don't get EVEN MORE pissed when you gun one of your sweeping left-handed hook shots off the glass. Grunfeld, get rid of this clown.

I would like to put Etan Thomas and Brendant Todd Haywood on a bus with no air conditioning and drive them strait out of town. They are a couple of poopsticks!

if only the poet could study his playbook and work as hard on his game or what normal people call their trade (you know what we are all paid to do) as much as he studies politics and writes and recites speeches he might actually be worth the salary he makes. its kinda of sad that he chose a profession that he has very little feel for or for that matter passion for. poet set an example for the youth work hard at what your paid to do after you are the best you can be with your chosen trade then and only then should you be reciting poetry and writing speeches understand poet you are about as good at your chosen job as is president bush at his.

Etan Thomas is a horse's behind. He should be leaving the "save the world" stuff until he's retired. Now he should be working on his damn game. He's STEALING $$ from the Wizards given how lousy he's played. They spent all off season trying to get rid of him and no one wants him.

Right! It offends me that athletes on the teams I root for espouse their personal political opinions.

The idiots. Don't they know their only job is to jump around throw the ball run fast, etc?

Nobody wants to hear that they think, read a book, write a book [!} care about politics or anything. If we could hire monkeys to play basketball that would suit me just fine.

Now if Etan Thomas were an allstar though I might register to vote and work for the Dennis Kucinich campaign. Then his opinion would have value.

Shoot, it would be even worse if Etan Thomas were black or something. That would be almost scary.