Zach Randolph's Still Living the Thug Life in Portland [UPDATE]
By Jason McIntyre
[UPDATE II: Here’s video of the drug dealer saying Zach Randolph didn’t want to pay $200 for weed, so he took the bag of weed … and then a bunch of guys jacked him up.]
I get that Randolph’s mansion is probably too large for him to know what’s going on at all times, but what kind of friends pull the trigger on a drug deal in your house, and then jack someone up in the process? The victim in the beating spoke to Oregon TV station KGW:
"James Beasley, 26, told KGW News that he went to the West Linn home of former Portland Trail Blazer Zach Randolph to sell marijuana and when there was a disagreement over price, he was beat by men with a pool stick. After Beasley told the same story to detectives from the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office, they searched Randolph’s home around 12:30 Sunday morning, police said Sunday."
Even though police say they’re not interested in Randolph – who signed a $71 million extension with the Grizzlies earlier this year – what is he doing hanging out with these criminals? You might recall that in January, one of Randolph’s “friends” shot a bouncer at a nightclub. And in May of 2010, a police informant claimed that Randolph was a big-time drug supplier in Indianapolis.
[UPDATE: The Oregonian reports that Zach Randolph met Beasley on a charter cruise that night in Portland, and invited him to his house to sell drugs to a private part of about 20 people. Beasley maintains that Randolph was not involved in the beating.]
Are there odds on Zach Randolph getting arrested during the lockout? Dogs, fleas, etc.