Nash's divorce/family issues in spotlight - is this news?

The San Antonio paper is writing about Duncan's divorce -- and that is quite a bit less controversial than this and the filing even excluded Duncan's name and his wife's. I don't know how serious they were about really trying to shield it, though, because "T.T.D." asked for a delay for "30 days following the first work day following the San Antonio Spurs' last playoff game (whenever that might be)."

 

I remember when it was a big controversy during one of Frank Thomas' last seasons in Chicago when he was struggling and one of the writers wrote that Thomas was taking a separation or divorce very hard and it was affecting his play. There was a discussion at APSE that said, "Thomas getting divorced is not news, but when coaches were implying that it was impacting his play, then it became newsworthy."

A lot has changed since then.

 

You're right about that. However, if this were 1990, I doubt we would have read that story.

 

Yeah, if there's no alleged rape or a $1 million apology diamond involved, I could see how this one wouldn't register...

 

There is no question it is news, but it is not news-worthy in most necks of the woods. It is of interest to national outlets and to the LA and Phoenix markets. Won't see the light of day in my paper here in the Southeast. But we did run a brief on the Bryant story because of the oddity of it.