Isaiah Rider Sent To Jail After Violating Parole For Assault Conviction
Isaiah Rider was sentenced to four days in jail Wednesday when a judge in Minneapolis revoked his probation on a 1994 assault conviction.
Hennepin County District Judge Dolores Orey found Rider violated the terms of his probation by failing to stay in touch with his probation officer. She ordered Rider to report to the county’s Adult Detention Center Wednesday night.
He will be held until 7 a.m. Saturday.
Rider, a rising NBA star whose two-year career with the Wolves has been clouded by his off-court behavior, was accused of assaulting a Mall of America manager last year.
He was sentenced in September to two years’ probation and nearly violated his probation in December when he completed a community service requirement only at the last minute.
Some arriving in limousines, NBA players around the country went to the polls in a referendum on a proposed labor agreement that will determine the fate of the union and possibly the coming season.
Players, locked out since July 1, could either vote to continue their union, and in effect accept the labor deal, or abolish it, an effectively send the NBA’s labor dispute into the federal courts.
Results of the vote, conducted at 47 National Labor Relations Board offices Wednesday and Sept. 7, will be announced Sept. 12 in New York.
NBA commissioner David Stern has said if decertification wins, the lockout will delay the start of the season.
In Chicago, the Bulls and superstation WGN-TV have been ordered to pay the NBA about $1.2 million for the right to show 30 games on WGN in the 1994-95 season. It was less than half the amount the NBA sought.
In a written opinion, U.S. District Judge Hubert Will rejected the NBA’s proposed fee structure for determining how much the Bulls and WGN should pay. That structure was based on the price paid for game telecasts sold to the league’s national cable carrier, Turner Broadcasting.
A 12-second shot clock, 2-minute rounds and a possible six-point basket all are part of the rules that Shaquille O’Neal and Hakeem Olajuwon will use for their pay-per-view, one-on-one basketball game Sept. 30 in Atlantic City, N.J.