The Sphere
General Garbage => Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits => Topic started by: The D on Nov 20, 2004, 10:28:57 PM
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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/bask...ded.ap/?cnn=yes (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/basketball/nba/11/20/players.suspended.ap/?cnn=yes)
http://www.freep.com/sports/pistons/mrosey20e_20041120.htm (http://www.freep.com/sports/pistons/mrosey20e_20041120.htm)
I'll save you cutting and pasting since the papers are a big vauge, and tell you what I've heard from reading every newspaper in the entire Detroit area, some that had this story on the front page.
During a game in Detroit against the Detroit Pistons and the Indiana Pacers, Pistons star Ben Wallace (the guy on the cover of EA's NBA2004) shoved Pacers player Artest. There was 48 seconds left in the game.
Shoving between players is normal. It happens. Wallace and Artest went to sit on the sidelines to cool off. What happened next wasn't normal.
A Pistons fan or two chucked some cups at Artest and he flipped out, bolting up the stands and attacking THE WRONG FAN. Other Pacer players in their infinite stupidity joined him in attacking Pistons fans in the seats. Other fans threw things at the Packer players, some joined in the fight, and some grabbed steel chairs and attacked the Packer players with them.
Piston players including Wallace and a few Indiana players went into the stands to try to break it up, and ended up getting in the melee. Security guards jumed in to break it up and several got injured.
Once the police had broke it up and were escorting the players to the lockers, a fan yelled at Artest and he flipped out a SECOND time, and attacked this fan too!
The game ended then with 48 seconds on the clock. Several people left in ambulances. Several players were suspended.
And shockingly Artest ISN'T in jail. Where he should be. He attacked fans, TWICE, and lost his temper, TWICE, and should be locked away until he can control his anger at the world and white oppression or whatever.
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Fucking Indiana.
Pacers fans are blaming Detroit and Pistons fans for the riot.
Ok, so a Piston's fan threw something, but that didn't give Artest any right to attack ANOTHER FAN. He needs to control his fucking temper.
Indiana, put your fucking basketball players on leashes and shut the fuck up.
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http://www.detnews.com/2004/pistons/0411/2...stons-11169.htm (http://www.detnews.com/2004/pistons/0411/20/pistons-11169.htm)
There was talk that Pacers forward Jermaine O'Neal might be arrested. He and teammate Anthony Johnson both punched a fan -- whose name was believed to be Charles Hadad -- who had run onto the court after O'Neal. Johnson hit him first, O'Neal knocked him cold.
Then, after he was hit by a folding chair thrown by a fan as he was walking through the tunnel, O'Neal got into an altercation in the tunnel with another fan, in front of Auburn Hills police.
Several fans were treated for minor injuries, including Pacers play-by-play man Mark Boyle, who was cut on the forehead when he tried to stop Artest from going into the crowd.
Hadad was carted off on a stretcher. Women and children were crying. It was a terrifying situation.
Damn, there was even more fighting?
LOL! Saturday Night Live did a skit about the fight! XD XD XD
Anyway, I smell a lot of fucking lawsuits now.
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At least one of them got suspended for the season. They need to be jailed.
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I agree. Stop endorsing this shit by giving them million dollar paychecks and slaps on the wrist and throw 'em in the slammer instead.
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This just proves that basketball is the WORST major sport.
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Indiana, put your fucking basketball players on leashes and shut the fuck up.
Yep, cause it's Indiana's fault when players do something stupid.
On behalf of myself and a large number of fellow hoosiers: Go fuck yourself with a rusty crowbar.
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Fuck basketball period.
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Fuck basketball period.
A-fuckin-men.
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fuck football. i hate that fucking sport. starting with its name, football? i dont know who was the asshole who named that shit football, while "football" is soccer;s real name. wtf.
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fuck football. i hate that fucking sport. starting with its name, football? i dont know who was the asshole who named that shit football, while "football" is soccer;s real name. wtf.
Yeah, no. Just no. Do applejacks taste like apples!? NO!!!
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Both sports are equally as lame.
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Hippie, go plant a tree, and save a fish.
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Indiana, put your fucking basketball players on leashes and shut the fuck up.
Yep, cause it's Indiana's fault when players do something stupid.
On behalf of myself and a large number of fellow hoosiers: Go fuck yourself with a rusty crowbar.
One person threw a cup at a basketball player and hit him in the back of the head. The basketball player didn't even see where it was coming from and guessed who threw it, and then attacked some random guy (who actually still had his drink in his hand and just happened to get in the way).
If you were sitting there enjoying the game and some basketball player that's 7 feet tall attacks you, you'd shit your pants. So that fan not only is in the hospital but traumatized for life.
Not to mention two other players who weren't even provoked went into the stands and attacked random fans for the hell of it. "Hey, let's go beat up people because we're black and we're angry!"
Of course, it can all be summed up in a simple way:
Throwing a cup at the back of someone's head = Misdemeanor at best.
Beating someone up for the hell of it = Felony assault and battery = Prison time.
If these guys WEREN'T rich and famous, they'd be in jail for 6 months shitting on a toilet in front of 20 other guys.
Fuck famous people getting off easy.
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It would have been alot easier if Wallace intercepted the cup. Given the size of his fro, the cup would have been consumed.
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What fro?
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You can't see it...it's invisible in that picture.
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You need 3D glasses to see it.
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Those hafta be some mighty powerful glasses.
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Not really, but like I said before, the moon is not made of cheese. If so, the French would claim they own it.
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How do you know it's not made of cheese? Have you been there? Yeah, I thought as much.
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Go Pacers!
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Go Cheese-Moon!
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If it were cheese, why haven't the french been there!?
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Because the French couldn't build a rocket. It had no priority over food, love-making and not bathing.
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Indiana, put your fucking basketball players on leashes and shut the fuck up.
Yep, cause it's Indiana's fault when players do something stupid.
On behalf of myself and a large number of fellow hoosiers: Go fuck yourself with a rusty crowbar.
One person threw a cup at a basketball player and hit him in the back of the head. The basketball player didn't even see where it was coming from and guessed who threw it, and then attacked some random guy (who actually still had his drink in his hand and just happened to get in the way).
If you were sitting there enjoying the game and some basketball player that's 7 feet tall attacks you, you'd shit your pants. So that fan not only is in the hospital but traumatized for life.
Not to mention two other players who weren't even provoked went into the stands and attacked random fans for the hell of it. "Hey, let's go beat up people because we're black and we're angry!"
Of course, it can all be summed up in a simple way:
Throwing a cup at the back of someone's head = Misdemeanor at best.
Beating someone up for the hell of it = Felony assault and battery = Prison time.
If these guys WEREN'T rich and famous, they'd be in jail for 6 months shitting on a toilet in front of 20 other guys.
Fuck famous people getting off easy.
Wow. You don't even read what I say.
Let me sum up your comments. "NO LOOK! IT'S THE PLAYERS FAULT!"
Hey, read what I said again. "THE PLAYERS DID SOMETHING STUPID." In otherwords, yes. The players fucked up, teh big one. I'm bitching at you for seeming to think that Indiana (The state) should take the blame for this, and saying we should 'control' our players.
Well then, lets 'leash' the Piston fans while we're at it, so they can't provoke the players into being dumbasses.
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Go Pacers!
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Go Wolverines?
They just came out for the initial charges. The guy who threw the cup is being charged with a misdemeanor. The players are all being charged with misdemeanors as well, with the punishment being 6 months in jail or $500 fine. As if $500 is a lot for a basketball player. It's more like a slap on the wrist.
The guy who's getting it worst is the guy who tossed a folding chair into the melee, they're throwing the book at him.
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The guy who's getting it worst is the guy who tossed a folding chair into the melee, they're throwing the book at him.
And not a chair? That hardly seens fair, mass-ratio wise. <_<
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Yea, but then how would he ever learn? He throws a chair, the judge says it's a no-no but does the same thing. It would confuse the guy.
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Go Hammurabi's law! And of course he'd learn something. He'd learn that unless he wants to get hit by a chair again, he best stop throwing chairs.
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If Mr. Chair were here, he'd sue that guy for cruelty! :angry:
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If Mr. Chair were here, he'd sue that guy for cruelty! :angry:
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Don't be like that. We know you like it rough!
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Unfotunate cruelty.