Hooped Up

Joakim’s dad is pretty cool about the situation.

Yannick Noah doesn’t understand “all that fuss” surrounding the arrest of his son Joakim for possession of marijuana and drinking from an open container, according to The Chicago Tribune. “I don’t understand all that fuss for just drinking a beer on the street,” Yannick Noah said Tuesday at the French Open. Having won the French Open in 1983, Yannick created a sensation a few years before when he told a writer he smoked marijuana. The Bulls have said General Manager John Paxson told Noah of “his disappointment in his actions,” but the team has withheld further comment.

Chicago Tribune