course Checketts wanted to know if Sprewell was remorseful for going after Carlesimo. But he’d also been bothered by a story from a few years earlier, when one of Sprewell’s pit bulls attacked his four-year-old daughter, severing her right ear in the process. The issue that didn’t sit well with Checketts: when asked by reporters about that traumatic episode in 1994, Sprewell responded, “Shit happens.” “Look, I’m a father with six kids, and they mean more to me than anything,” Checketts said to Sprewell, saying he found the player’s response to be callous. “I told myself, ‘[Sprewell] is totally
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