Article: Joakim Noah's father baffled about fuss over son's arrest

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. 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. Yannick Noah won the French Open in 1983. He created a sensation a few years before when he told a magazine writer he smoked marijuana. Joakim Noah was released after signing ...

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