where art thou 'Ren?

It's been a bad couple days for former Memphis Tiger basketball players.

Memphis OG Lorenzen Wright has been missing for a week reports his family. In some ways this does not surprise me at all. Just look at the track record of Memphis players, from Memphis. Ren, Burks, Hunt..and that's just recently. They can't escape their own environment. Sad. And there have been reports of Ren's crazy spending habits. He's recently lost 2 multi-million dollar homes. Not to mention the death of an infant daughter. The guy has definitely been through some stuff.

I never thought to myself that Lorenzen would be the old Tiger hanging out at games and getting involved in the program, rallying the fans, being a supporter. He just didn't seem like the type.

And he may have had another couple years as a big man on the bench somewhere. Shit, Kurt Thomas and Theo Ratliff are getting jobs.

I'm going to stop here, this is becoming an obituary...so here's to hoping for the best, but preparing for the worse.

Now on to some dumb shit...

Another Memphian, former Tiger and NBA player Shawne Williams was arrested with another former Tiger Kareem Cooper the other day. Driving on suspended license, weed in the car...sound familiar?

Williams had his share of "problems" when he finally got to U of M, but he had a freaking awesome year. (5 threes in the first half against Duke in The Garden in his first game anyone?). After he got drafted? Back to the old ways. Burned bridges in Indiana and Dallas. Waste of talent.

And why is Kareem Cooper in Memphis? You may remember him getting arrested during his time here for...oh, what was it?....weed! Maybe he needed to re-up?



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Three 6 Mafia ft Waka Flaka and Project Pat