Talk:Robert Parish

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Authenticity check: A search reveals that the phrase "regarded by many" appears in the text. Is the phrase a symptom of a dubious statement? Could a source be quoted instead? Perhaps the "many" could be identified? Might text be edited to more genuinely reflect specific facts?

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I provided a link indentifying said "many". May I erase the banner? Mrbluesky 15:14, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What does this sentence mean: "Parish actually teamed with Larry Bird from 1980-1992, and Kevin McHale from 1980-1993, before each retired." Maybe it is the phrasing, but I don't understand the purpose of providing this information. Perhaps it is the use of the word "actually".

Spousal abuse

Is that true? I'm a casual Celtics fan and have never heard of it. The results on google are far from overwhelming. I'm not saying it is false, but I think it should be re-worded. I'd hardly say "all his accomplishments are dampened because of this" or whatever. Like I said, I've never even heard of this. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.67.217.125 (talk) 06:19, 1 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]

It was reported in the Boston media at the time of the allegations. I am not a sports fan so I didn't follow up on the story. But I do remember hearing about it. Postcard Cathy 22:01, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unless we can get a citation from a reliable source, we should not include it per WP:BLP. 147.70.242.40 01:28, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Here is a citation for Parish's domestic violence: http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1006884/2/index.htm

The 1995 article was written by Sports Illustrated reporters William Nack and Lester Munson (a former attorney), and is hosted on the SI/CNN website.

Here is an excerpt that illustrates the gravity of the matter: 'While portrayed for years by the image-makers in Boston as a gentle giant who was as large in class and character as in stature, Parish, according to his former wife, Nancy Saad, was a domestic terrorist. *** According to Saad, Parish then grabbed her by the throat and threw her out the door, into the hallway, and she remembers being punched and thrown into a wall and spinning and thumping off the door of an adjacent room. The next thing she recalls is falling dizzily to the floor and lying there supine, looking up at a stranger's face, that of an older man with salt-and-pepper hair who was wearing a dress shirt. He said, "What the...!" She remembers saying to him, "Help me...!" And then she recalls hearing Parish's bass voice, slow and deep and rolling over her, still eerie and unclear, saying something to the older man. "I don't know what it was," she says. "The man went in and shut his door." And then Parish kicked her, she says, and he was saying, "Get the -- out!" 'Eight years later Saad still has no memories of what happened to her immediately after the events of that June afternoon. In fact, she remains uncertain about how she got home that day, and she is unclear as to how she arrived the next morning at Saint John's Hospital and Health Center in Santa Monica, where she remained for seven days, with a stay in intensive care, and where, according to her hospital records, she was diagnosed with a "closed head injury," impaired vision in her right eye, abrasions around her left eye and over her right cheek, a "large bruise" on her right arm and soreness and spasms in her neck.'

I submit that this reportage by a credible news organization constitutes a reliable source for the allegations of domestic violence. Austinmayor (talk) 15:30, 23 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am a big fan of Parish, yet even I realize that the accusations of spousal abuse deserve more attention than a throw-away sentence at the very end of the entry, in the Legacy section of all places. Furthermore, it is well known that Parish has been arrested or cited, on more than one occasion for possession of marijuana, yet there is not one single mention of this in the entry. It cannot be credibly argued that an arrest for marijuana possession does not merit a mention in this entry — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.141.152.197 (talk) 09:45, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:45, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Citation on "the chief"?

Why is there no citation on the origin of his nickname, "The Chief"? The more common source from the Boston area is that it was given based upon his marijuana habit... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.171.68.26 (talk) 21:26, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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