In case someone has missed the action recently regarding Ben Wallace, allow me to fill you in. Bulls head coach Scott Skiles and the Chicago brass don’t allow players to wear headbands during games. It’s a dumb team rule, but it’s a rule nonetheless. Wallace apparently agreed to this rule when he robbed the Bulls of $60 million over the offseason.
In a recent game, Wallace decided to forego the team rule and wear a headband. Skiles pulled him from the court and told Wallace to take the band off or he’s not going back in. Instead of doing as his coach tells him, Wallace returned to the end of the bench, threw a fit in which every member of the Bulls coaching staff had to talk to him and then eventually agreed to take off the head gear. Skiles put Big Ben back into the game and Wallace immediately put the headband back on. The feud has continued between the coach and player and now, apparently, Wallace has stated that he isn’t sorry for the tirade.
Memo to Ben Wallace: You’re not in Detroit anymore. People don’t bow down to you like they did at the Palace and people certainly don’t “Fear the Fro’” in Chicago. You were signed in Chicago as the missing link. Now, you can’t even do the one good thing you did in Detroit, which was grab rebounds. You’re a bust so far as Bull and the Chicago media isn’t going to coddle your rocks like the Detroit media did. Get over yourself.
