Apparently Joakim Noah was busted for open container and marijuana possession on Sunday. See, these are the stories we missed while away! In any event, his father, the famous former tennis player Yannick Noah, has weighed in. Let’s just say that dad didn’t exactly bring down the heavy hand of discipline. From the Associated Press (image of Joakim presumably from draft night, right before he and David Stern housed three bags of Doritos):

Yannick Noah is perplexed by “all that fuss” surrounding the arrest of his basketball player son, who was charged with marijuana possession and having an open container of alcohol.

Chicago Bulls forward Joakim Noah was arrested Sunday in Gainesville, Fla., after an officer spotted him on a sidewalk holding a plastic cup. Police said that during a search at the station officers found marijuana in his pocket.

“I don’t understand all that fuss for just drinking a beer on the street,” Yannick Noah said Tuesday at the French Open.

The elder Noah won the title at Roland Garros in 1983. He created a sensation a few years before when he told a magazine writer he smoked marijuana.

A plastic cup? Was Joakim at a Gainesville freshman house party? Was the cup red? Did he pay his five bucks like everyone else, or did he get in for free because of his status? These are the hard questions we need to be asking.

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