Lucious pleads guilty to reckless driving
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Junior guard Korie Lucious pleaded guilty to one count of reckless driving Thursday, according to court documents.
Lucious was arrested Monday on suspicion of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. The charge was reduced from an OWI to a reckless driving charge.
According to a copy of the ticket issued to Lucious, his blood alcohol content was 0.09 when he was pulled over. The player had been driving a red 2002 Buick when he was arrested near Charles and Linden streets at about 2:20 a.m.
“I am disappointed in Korie, and Korie’s disappointed in himself,” men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo said Friday in a statement on the incident. “We look forward to moving past this.”
Lucious will not turn 21 until Nov. 5. For reckless driving, Lucious faces 93 days in jail and a $500 fine, according to the city of East Lansing’s website.
Lucious, a Milwaukee native, averaged 5.6 points and 3.2 assists in 36 games last season. When then-junior guard Kalin Lucas went down with a ruptured Achilles’ tendon in the NCAA Tournament, then-sophomore Lucious filled in as point guard and led the team to the Final Four.
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Lucious: The WORST teammate! Go ISU Hurricaines!
(09/03/10 5:10pm)Report
93 Days in Jail. How can you attend class when you are in jail? There goes his academic progress and his season. He is BY FAR a worse teammate than Chris Allen. Izzo will NOT punish Lucious. Lucious will NOT sit the bench or be forced to transfer to Iowa State. Izzo the dictator has completely LOST CONTROL of the pristine program that he inherited from Jud Heathcoate.
Well...
(09/03/10 5:19pm)Report
Thats because Lucious didn’t get in trouble with smoking weed!
Dan
(09/04/10 9:06am)Report
Most of us will never know the full story on Chris Allen, but college athletes are still mostly immature and will make the same kinds of mistakes that ordinary college students make and learn from (or don’t) and graduate (or don’t) and have successful careers (or don’t) and lead mostly normal, good lives…or don’t! It always amazes me to read the extreme negative comments. I’d bet my golf clubs most posters made bigger mistakes in their own lives. Give Lucious a chance and know Izzo will do right by the kid, the Spartan BBall team and MSU.
GO SPARTANS
Idiots
(09/04/10 10:28pm)Report
93 days is the maximum penalty allowed for reckless driving, he ‘faces’ that. You ‘face’ about 30 days in jail for an mip. Nobody ever every gets that bc that take a plea for probation/community seervice and a fine. You are an idiot for thinking that he will spend that time in jail. And a 20 year old blowing a .09 doesn’t at all mean izzo has lost control. And what, other than him winning a lot, deserves him the derogatory title of dictator?
Answer the question: How can you go to class if you are in jail for 93 days?
(09/06/10 12:18am)Report
Izzo IS a dictator and a potty mouth. These are facts. It is becoming increasingly clear that the players do not respect him or the program, as evidenced by their recent selfish and myopic actions. Oh, and DAN, I do not want to take your crappy golf clubs. But I will take ur money on any bet.
You are a JOKE
(09/06/10 2:34pm)Report
Gee wonder if poster #1 are scUM-bags… not obvious at all.
chris
(09/07/10 2:47pm)Report
And by hurricanes you must mean cyclones …
chris
(09/07/10 2:47pm)Report
And by hurricanes you must mean cyclones …
WAIT
(09/07/10 4:49pm)Report
So let me get this straight: Drive drunk as a non-athlete, get a DUI. Drive drunk as an athlete, get a reckless driving ticket???
Wow. Justice system fail.