Mario Elie Arrested on DUI Charges

Now don’t they look dumb

I feel compelled to try this out. Driving under the influence seems to be the thing to do!

wow, mario elie busted.i guess he was happy because we finally won a game?

Instead of $20 cab ride, he costs himself millions in potential lost salary as NBA head coach.

Also, spoken or not, the Kings players have to lose respect on some level. Just human nature. While ‘yes’ everyone makes mistakes and learns from them, yada yada yada…. an assistant coach preaches responsibility and personal accountability to players. When he does again, he will come across like a hypocrite.

If they had replaced GP with Ellie, like so many people wanted, and then had this happen. Of course maybe Ellie wouldn’t have gotten the DUI had he been made interim coach. But can you imagine the headlines, “KIngs Put the DUI in DisfUnctIonal.”, if we’d fired our fourth coach, only to have our five get arrested days later.

…don’t we have to wonder if all these DUI’s are an indication of what life is really like with the Kings?

And why the fook can’t these guys hire a car service?

But this is an embarrassment and more importantly, it is dangerous.

Not to point a finger at Mario Elie directly but – how many more arrests before someone gets the idea that this is wrong and they shouldn’t do it?

We lead the NBA in DUI’s. This is tough to admit, but when those are the loudest headlines coming out of Sacramento, it reflects poorly on the city. Elie, however, made a clown of himself. May have cost him a job opportunity this season, and maybe some credibility with the players.

We cut Wright because he sucked/to make an example. What do we do with Elie?

like they have at the gate of many military bases: ### Days since the last DUI.
Time to put up a sign at Arco.

Is driving the fans crazy.

I’m so fucking sick of this bullshit. You work for a fucking NBA team…you can afford to spend $20 on a cab if you don’t want to use the provided car service. There is no excuse for this kind of horribly irresponsible behavior and I’m sick of it.

Last year “Flip The Chip” was a big sponsor of the Kings telecast. This year it is Yellow Cab. I guess that this is lost on Kings personnel, since they are at the games and thus unable to watch the telecasts.

is downright ridiculous.
The Kings should fire him and set a fucking example. Show everyone in the organization that this shit will wont be tolerated anymore!

DUIs are no laughing matter, and it sickens me when people, especially ones like Elie/Wright/Nocioni/Muss who are paid supremely well and are in the media spotlight, commit crimes like this. Personally, I’m a little disappointed the NBA doesn’t punish players/coaches for DUIs when they do for other things that don’t put other peoples lives in danger.

but is there a taxi service?

Yeah, just crap. DUI’s are bad regardless of who does it. But, this is bound to get a massive over-reaction for those on the outside of the situation.

Yellow Cab Arena? So the organization knows who to call?

Not only is it very dangerous for any person to drive drunk, this continuing endevor by King’s employees to act wrecklessly by driving drunk brings down the franchise in the eyes of all fans and tax payers who are considering any possibility of having a new arena built here. I’m so pissed.

Are Kings officials afraid of cabs? This helps Westphal keep his job.

As the Kings have strugged, Elie was seen as the assistant most likely to take over the head coach’s chair had the franchise decided to cut ties with Westphal. There is no chance that will happen now.

DUIs are a bad thing, but I don’t think they are a death sentence for coaches. It’s a shame, though, no doubt about it.