Chicago DUI lawyer comments on the Bulls loss to the Heat--even with a player's DUI team suspension

This Chicago DUI lawyer can’t believe the losing streak that the Chicago Bulls is on. Friday night’s loss to the Miami Heat in marks the seventh consecutive loss for the Bulls. She’s posted here, and here, about athletes charged with DUI. Now comes news that makes the Heat’s suspended Dorell Wright breathe a sigh of relief.

March 13, Miami, FL

With two veterans serving team-imposed suspensions and its second-leading scorer out with an injury, the Heat appeared to enter Friday's game in pretty bad shape.

Fortunately for the Heat, its opponent had it even worse.

With Derrick Rose joining Luol Deng and Joakim Noah on the injured list, a team disguised as the Chicago Bulls showed up to face the Heat at American Airlines Arena.

``At this time of the year, most [teams] only got seven or eight guys in the rotation anyway,'' Heat guard Dwyane Wade said. ``We're not the most healthy team, either.''

The Heat had enough productive bodies to hold off the Bulls in a battle of shorthanded teams fighting for the Eastern Conference playoffs.

Miami withstood a turnover-filled night from Wade and a second-half deficit to pull away for a 108-95 victory. The Heat (34-32) moved into seventh place in the East, a half-game ahead of eighth-place Toronto and 2 ½ in front of Chicago (31-34).

Heat forward Michael Beasley, the No. 2 pick two years ago, sat out with a thigh bruise he sustained in Wednesday's victory against the Los Angeles Clippers. Rose, the top pick in 2008 and Chicago's leading scorer, was out after he sprained his wrist in Thursday's loss at Orlando.

``We can't look past anybody, take anybody lightly,'' Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. ``We have to take care of business at home. Our guys are ready for the challenge.''

The Heat also was without reserve forward Dorell Wright, who began his two-game suspension Friday for his DUI arrest Thursday. Veteran guard Rafer Alston, who was suspended indefinitely a week ago, was suspended for the rest of the season Friday.
However, the pressure for this young man could just be too much.

From miaminews.com:

For Dorell Wright, becoming a first-round NBA draft pick meant a three-year, $3-million-plus contract, a Nikeendorsement contract, a sweet condo in the Grove, 100-plus pairs of shoes, and hero status among all who know him. But that won't help him start basketball games. Wright, whose 21 years old now, has languished on the Heat bench for the better part of three seasons, upsetting his supporters and stagnating his development. His patience has been rewarded only periodically, when other players get injured. Wright seems to handle this as well as any young athlete could, but with his career and millions of dollars on the line, you better believe he's upset.

His plight relates to the larger issue of how inexperienced young men adjust to a highly public, pressurized environment like the NBA. "In a lot of ways, they're like a lot of spoiled kids," former NBA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said recently in an online interview. Abdul-Jabbar thinks the straight-out-of-high-school scenario is a crapshoot for a lot of kids who know little about the world. "When somebody drops $20 million in their laps," he says, "it's going to have an effect on their egos."

It just goes to show how far stretching a DUI arrest is. This young man is at the end of his contract and given his stats and now this arrest I suspect he won’t land well. I guess time will tell.