Rhondab said:

Yup. If any of the fans that charged the court, threw stuff or threw punches get to sue, my head is gonna blow off

ReturnOfDOOK said:

Thank you. Some muufuckas wanna just have something to say & point fingers. I say READ, THEN point fingers

Adisa said:

http://msn.foxsports.com/

See the "free video" section on the bottom right...

Being from Detroit, I can just say (without drama about the details of what happened)


"Detroit needs Hockey!"


Th funny thing was that I was over a friends house watching a classic Red Wings game from 1997 because my buddy is missing hockey so much. Then he gets the call to turn on the Pistons game and...

bds70 said:

Well truth be told.. it was the Daddy's and Momma's of these kids whom inititaed the 'fan' element into the conflict in the first place. Prior to that it was just between two teams on the floor which isnt un-common among sporting events. Sports are emotonal events ..and pro sports come wit pro levels of emotions..so it isnt to surprising to see conflicts between players regularly... It does happen.

again she got trampled cause the fans couldn't control themsleves and stay seated.

Look closer... in the initial conflict Artest was one of the players NOT throwing punches.. he was backed into the scorers table on accident and then did a 'smart ass' move by laying on it.. but hey .. he wasnt fighting ior yelluing at any body..and since he himself NEVER threw a punch til thatr point he would not have been penealized..cause his foul on the floor was hard.. but it wasnt flagrant. Ben Wallace got ticked cause they were losing and Artest was still playingg Artest's game which is to foul hard.

exactly..hense the tone of your statement seams contradictory or confused

the guys who did it were only fifteen to tweenty feet away actually and had been yelling at hjim directly. most of us most figure that in the same situation .. the likely hood of us knowing who threw at us in that range would have been high... so its unfair to figure he couldnt know. Also tempers were already flared...and can YOU honestly tell me that if you were already in a pissed off fighting mood and some guy hhits you in the face with a water bottle and you pretty much know who did it.. you would simply yell 'security!!'... no... your uinstincts take over and say go kick his ass.

Remeber peeps although these guys make a lot of money.. most of them come from some of the hardest negighborhoods across the country... they are 'street'

You can take a baler from the street .. but you cant take the street away from a baller. and on the street someone plays you like a bithc and hits you in the face with a water bottle you would kick thier ass.. this situation was no different.

not surei'm understanding you here... no one weither they make a million dollars or one dollar has to submitt them selves to assult.. the money they make has no bearings.. getting hit in the face with a bottle is still getting hit inthe face with a bottle no matter what you make.

And do your history... postive or negative publicity is still publicuity and all this hoplah over his Cd .. has garunteed it 500,000 million sold already





We label athletes as role models and tellthem they are...weither they want to be or not.... so when they act like the latter... we only have ourselves to blame. Charles Barkley years ago made comments related to 'role model' status and i agreed with him then and now still. You ge what you pay for..aso if you make an athlete your role model... and athlete with all there flaws is what you get.

As far as the league goes, both teams should get a LOSS for the outcome of the game and the players who went after the fans should AT LEAST be tossed out of the league for the season. If they don't, the NBA takes another step down closer to the reputation of the NHL.

QuakeXLE said:

Please answer this: Who made Artest get off the table run up about 3-5 rows over about 10 seats?? I think the answer would be him. If you look at the video the guy he went after has a cup in his hand, in short of him drinking double fisted, but if he wasn't didn't Artest swing an innocent man?? The actions can't be denied, he should of stayed on the floor.

As far as parents goes, I wasn't so much think of those who may of started it, I was thinking of those who had nothing to do with it.

As far as Artest selling 500,000 cds, I won't and have never got caught up in the hype. ? for you would you buy this cd because of this incident??

You make some excellent points, for me I place very high expectations on our "professional" athletes and I think at the end of the day they are just like you and I, but learn more self control and self discipline to help avert these types of situations.

The Vibe Awards broke out at a NBA game! Whodathunkit!