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Never Gets Old: Dennis Scott's Classic Meltdown
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I can't believe this is my first post but I remember watching something about this several years ago.
Besides being stressed over contract negotiations, D. Scott's dad had died a few years earlier and Dennis never really grieved. I guess all the stress he was feeling boiled over that day. I still can't laugh about it to this day cause I felt bad for him. He though his dad died from being shot but it was actually a heroin overdose.
I'm 40 right now so I was a teenager when this happened. I started watching basketball in earnest the year Shaq and Zo came into the league so I was a fan of that Magic team and all the players. Here's a few articles I found:
https://www.foxsports.com/nba/story...ndary-rant-to-child-campers-shaq-penny-041416
The rage inside him: Revisiting Dennis Scott's epic rant to child campers
foxsports
2-3 minutes
This Magic Moment, a 30 for 30 documentary eulogizing the mid-1990s Orlando Magic, airs tonight on ESPN. A lot of it will probably center around what might’ve been if Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls would’ve just let them be great.
Somewhere in there, I pray that there’s mention of the time that Magic small forward Dennis Scott had a vesuvian meltdown and mortified a camp full of bright-eyed kids a year after the core of that Magic team was parted for scrap following Shaquille O’Neal’s signing with the Lakers.
In the summer of 1997, Dennis Scott– who’d been a dutiful role player alongside Horace Grant, Nick Anderson, and Brian Shaw during those three painfully brief years that Shaq and Penny Hardaway were together– was locked in a dispute with the team over the $3 million he was due to make the following season.
Scott was running his "3D" children’s camp in Virginia at the time and was supposed to be coaching fundamentals and spouting glittering "Be All You Can Be" type stuff, but was too stressed about contract negotiations to care about all that. What’s more it was hot as all get out.
So at some point, Scott said to hell with it, popped the trunk, and blared some family-friendly tracks from Biggie’s Ready To Die album while preaching to this gaggle of 10-year-olds about his trials and tribulations before bonking out to ‘meet a friend.’
It was seven different kinds of amazing.
The camp was obviously cancelled and the parents were refunded the $200 fee. Scott was eventually traded to the Dallas Mavericks.
The local reporter rehashing the story should’ve gotten a solid gold Kewpie doll for keeping it professional while repeating what Dennis Scott said.
"Don’t ask me for my autograph, ask me about the rage that’s inside of me." My sides.
Though Scott didn’t do himself any favors in 1997, clearly the bridges didn’t remain burned forever, as the Magic honored Scott with a touching tribute in December 2013.
Orlando Sentinel - We are currently unavailable in your region
NEW SHOCK FOR SCOTT: DRUGS KILLED FATHER
Tim Povtak and Sean Holton of The Sentinel Staff
4 minutes
The truth about his father's death was almost as shocking to Dennis Scott as the death itself.
Dennis Scott Sr., 49, did not die of a gunshot wound, as originally believed last week. His father died of an apparent heroin overdose in a Washington apartment just two doors down from the center where he worked as a drug counselor, police said Monday.
"This clears up one thing in my mind, that no one took his life," Scott said Monday from his home. "But at the same time, I'm asking myself 'why?' I never knew that side of him. Was this a first time for him, or is this something that he had hid from everyone? That part, I'll never know for sure."
The mixup over the death Thursday stemmed from the suicide of another Washington-area man named Michael Tyrone Scott, who shot himself in the abdomen the same day, according to Frank Molino, detective for the Washington D.C. police department.
Both cases appeared on the same page of a log at the medical examiner's office. The bodies arrived less than an hour apart. When the elder Scott's mother, Doris Scott, contacted the medical examiner's office last week, she was mistakenly given information about the suicide, Molino said.
That is the information Dennis Scott, the Orlando Magic forward, received from his grandmother early Friday morning. She didn't discover the truth until Sunday, and she told him Sunday night.
"My grandmother called me in disgust . . . ," Scott said. "How could something like this be confused? I don't know the answer. There has been confusion over the whole thing."
The Magic play Wednesday night in Philadelphia, and Scott will leave the team after the game and drive to Hagerstown, Md., where the funeral will be held Thursday.
Although some of Scott's teammates have asked to accompany him, he has discouraged them, afraid that their presence would turn the funeral into an autograph session.
Molino said Scott's body was found about 5:10 p.m. Thursday on a sofa in the front room of an apartment on the Northwest side of Washington. Police said the man who lives in the apartment was a friend of the elder Scott.
"It's an overdose, no question," said Molino, adding that the police investigation has concluded.
Dr. Joye Carter, the Washington medical examiner who performed the autopsy Friday, said she has issued a temporary death certificate pending the results of toxicology tests, which could take two to three weeks to complete.
The three-story row house where the body was found is located in Washington's Shaw neighborhood, an area plagued by drugs and violent crime.
The elder Scott, who lived in Colmar Manor, Md., just northeast of Washington, worked at the House of Seven Steps counseling center in the Shaw area, family members said. His truck was parked on the street outside the apartment building where he died.
There is no local phone listing for the House of Seven Steps, but Molino said it occupies a storefront just two doors down from the address where Scott's body was found, and is a drug counseling center.
Scott had talked to his father by phone early last week. He had seen him when the Magic played the Washington Bullets on Jan. 29. He was expecting to see him again Wednesday when the Magic play in Philadelphia.
"This is something I don't really understand right now," Scott said. "It's just been tough to sort it all out."
Besides being stressed over contract negotiations, D. Scott's dad had died a few years earlier and Dennis never really grieved. I guess all the stress he was feeling boiled over that day. I still can't laugh about it to this day cause I felt bad for him. He though his dad died from being shot but it was actually a heroin overdose.
I'm 40 right now so I was a teenager when this happened. I started watching basketball in earnest the year Shaq and Zo came into the league so I was a fan of that Magic team and all the players. Here's a few articles I found:
https://www.foxsports.com/nba/story...ndary-rant-to-child-campers-shaq-penny-041416
The rage inside him: Revisiting Dennis Scott's epic rant to child campers
foxsports
2-3 minutes
This Magic Moment, a 30 for 30 documentary eulogizing the mid-1990s Orlando Magic, airs tonight on ESPN. A lot of it will probably center around what might’ve been if Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls would’ve just let them be great.
Somewhere in there, I pray that there’s mention of the time that Magic small forward Dennis Scott had a vesuvian meltdown and mortified a camp full of bright-eyed kids a year after the core of that Magic team was parted for scrap following Shaquille O’Neal’s signing with the Lakers.
In the summer of 1997, Dennis Scott– who’d been a dutiful role player alongside Horace Grant, Nick Anderson, and Brian Shaw during those three painfully brief years that Shaq and Penny Hardaway were together– was locked in a dispute with the team over the $3 million he was due to make the following season.
Scott was running his "3D" children’s camp in Virginia at the time and was supposed to be coaching fundamentals and spouting glittering "Be All You Can Be" type stuff, but was too stressed about contract negotiations to care about all that. What’s more it was hot as all get out.
So at some point, Scott said to hell with it, popped the trunk, and blared some family-friendly tracks from Biggie’s Ready To Die album while preaching to this gaggle of 10-year-olds about his trials and tribulations before bonking out to ‘meet a friend.’
It was seven different kinds of amazing.
The camp was obviously cancelled and the parents were refunded the $200 fee. Scott was eventually traded to the Dallas Mavericks.
The local reporter rehashing the story should’ve gotten a solid gold Kewpie doll for keeping it professional while repeating what Dennis Scott said.
"Don’t ask me for my autograph, ask me about the rage that’s inside of me." My sides.
Though Scott didn’t do himself any favors in 1997, clearly the bridges didn’t remain burned forever, as the Magic honored Scott with a touching tribute in December 2013.
Orlando Sentinel - We are currently unavailable in your region
NEW SHOCK FOR SCOTT: DRUGS KILLED FATHER
Tim Povtak and Sean Holton of The Sentinel Staff
4 minutes
The truth about his father's death was almost as shocking to Dennis Scott as the death itself.
Dennis Scott Sr., 49, did not die of a gunshot wound, as originally believed last week. His father died of an apparent heroin overdose in a Washington apartment just two doors down from the center where he worked as a drug counselor, police said Monday.
"This clears up one thing in my mind, that no one took his life," Scott said Monday from his home. "But at the same time, I'm asking myself 'why?' I never knew that side of him. Was this a first time for him, or is this something that he had hid from everyone? That part, I'll never know for sure."
The mixup over the death Thursday stemmed from the suicide of another Washington-area man named Michael Tyrone Scott, who shot himself in the abdomen the same day, according to Frank Molino, detective for the Washington D.C. police department.
Both cases appeared on the same page of a log at the medical examiner's office. The bodies arrived less than an hour apart. When the elder Scott's mother, Doris Scott, contacted the medical examiner's office last week, she was mistakenly given information about the suicide, Molino said.
That is the information Dennis Scott, the Orlando Magic forward, received from his grandmother early Friday morning. She didn't discover the truth until Sunday, and she told him Sunday night.
"My grandmother called me in disgust . . . ," Scott said. "How could something like this be confused? I don't know the answer. There has been confusion over the whole thing."
The Magic play Wednesday night in Philadelphia, and Scott will leave the team after the game and drive to Hagerstown, Md., where the funeral will be held Thursday.
Although some of Scott's teammates have asked to accompany him, he has discouraged them, afraid that their presence would turn the funeral into an autograph session.
Molino said Scott's body was found about 5:10 p.m. Thursday on a sofa in the front room of an apartment on the Northwest side of Washington. Police said the man who lives in the apartment was a friend of the elder Scott.
"It's an overdose, no question," said Molino, adding that the police investigation has concluded.
Dr. Joye Carter, the Washington medical examiner who performed the autopsy Friday, said she has issued a temporary death certificate pending the results of toxicology tests, which could take two to three weeks to complete.
The three-story row house where the body was found is located in Washington's Shaw neighborhood, an area plagued by drugs and violent crime.
The elder Scott, who lived in Colmar Manor, Md., just northeast of Washington, worked at the House of Seven Steps counseling center in the Shaw area, family members said. His truck was parked on the street outside the apartment building where he died.
There is no local phone listing for the House of Seven Steps, but Molino said it occupies a storefront just two doors down from the address where Scott's body was found, and is a drug counseling center.
Scott had talked to his father by phone early last week. He had seen him when the Magic played the Washington Bullets on Jan. 29. He was expecting to see him again Wednesday when the Magic play in Philadelphia.
"This is something I don't really understand right now," Scott said. "It's just been tough to sort it all out."
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Don't call me 3D no more...."PREVIOUSLY ON READY TO DIE"
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...on the otherside of the pond
That will never stop being funnyDon't call me 3D no more...."PREVIOUSLY ON READY TO DIE"
