Brawl in Sterling Heights

Craziest thing Ive ever seen happen in the NBA....

Jermaine O\'Neil sucker punched some guy, a chair was thrown, and they found some old lady on the floor when a crowd broke up.

That should teach old ladies from ruining a perfectly fine basketball game.

Someone hook us up with a link when you see one.

worst NBA moment...EVAR.  Well atleast on par with Rudy T and Kermit Washington.

That sucker punch by oneal was shit.  The fans were retarded, but that damned sucker punch was unbelievable.  I wonder if the whole team will be suspended.  They\'ll probably stagger the suspensions, but I think they should have to play a couple games with 2 guys.

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Then there was Dennis Rodman kicking that guy in the nuts...but that doesn\'t count because Rodman isn\'t a human being...

http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/motion/showcase/index?videos=1927343

Little video.  Appparently the guy who O\'Neil went after in the stands was not the same guy who threw the cup, but his friend.

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THe ESPN guys were seriously sticking up for the players.  

I agree the fans are very obnoxious, but damn, they got slugged.

Ok, heres the situation you are walking down a street and someone throws a beer or something at you, what do you do??? You ****ing turn around and clock his ass, the fans were ****ing retarded, and if any suspensions come out of this I expect a big uprise by the players, security was at fault here. This was bad for everybody, but fans have become more and more ****ing retards and this has got to stop.

 I don\'t condone the players reactions or thing they were right, but I don\'t blame them for what they did either, 1000\'s of people vs 3-4 people hmmm, sucker punches??? How many times were the Pacers players sucker punched from behind or anything else without there knowledge.

A freaking chair was thrown I hope they make a lot of arrests, I just feel bad for the NBA players that will be sued and possibly lose money because of this incident, they are going to become rich because of there stupidity.

Man Artest is a ****ing idiot.  Someone throws a plastic cup out of the stands. He has nowhere in the world who throws it so he runs up in the stands:rolleyes:

And then takes out his frustration on the wrong guy at that. Come on give me a damn break.

And I am not defending the fans just because I live in Detroit. But come on now as a professional athlete you have to have better sense than that. What harm did the paper cup do to him?

I mean lunging into the crowd over a thrown paper cup.

Detroit fans are morons and Ron Artest is a f*cking nutcase.


That\'s about it.

Nobody was right here. The fans shouldnt have thrown ANYTHING and the the players should have walked out. Now they will be dealing with lawsuits.

Originally posted by QuDDus
Man Artest is a ****ing idiot.  Someone throws a plastic cup out of the stands. He has nowhere in the world who throws it so he runs up in the stands:rolleyes:

And then takes out his frustration on the wrong guy at that. Come on give me a damn break.

And I am not defending the fans just because I live in Detroit. But come on now as a professional athlete you have to have better sense than that. What harm did the paper cup do to him?

I mean lunging into the crowd over a thrown paper cup.

Paper cup?  Are you insane, from all the replays that was a plastic cup (and not one of the flimsy ones at that, this had harder edges and looked as if the bottom, the hard edge, hit Artest in the face).  Now add to that the fact that the cup looked to be full and the fan threw it at point blank range.

I want you to lye down on a table somewhere, and let me throw a full plastic cup at your face from point blank range and you tell me how it feels.


Now, on the other hand, I do not agree with Artest going into the stands, but for the most part until that, he was lounging on the scorers table trying to stay out of it.

Stephen Jackson is the one that needs to get the biggest of all Suspensions.  He went into the stands fists blazing and he wasn\'t a part of the intial skirmish.

Oneal and Artest punching the fan on the court, thats an altogether different realm.  If Monica Seles has taugt us anything, you go onto the court and square off to a player, you get what you deserve.

Now on the other end of things, I on\'t blame the city of Detroit, I don\'t blame Detroit fans.  I blame the 100-150 fans that felt the need to act like idiots.  The fight was calmed and nothing would\'ve happened until ONE Moron started it again, then it was escalated by Artest making a dumb move and the 100-150 dumbass fans adding to it by throwing chairs, coming onto the court, throwing everything else, etc.  so Detroit will also get an unfair reputation for the incident.

Brad

Originally posted by bradleyscott
Paper cup?  Are you insane, from all the replays that was a plastic cup (and not one of the flimsy ones at that, this had harder edges and looked as if the bottom, the hard edge, hit Artest in the face).  Now add to that the fact that the cup looked to be full and the fan threw it at point blank range.

I want you to lye down on a table somewhere, and let me throw a full plastic cup at your face from point blank range and you tell me how it feels.


Now, on the other hand, I do not agree with Artest going into the stands, but for the most part until that, he was lounging on the scorers table trying to stay out of it.

Stephen Jackson is the one that needs to get the biggest of all Suspensions.  He went into the stands fists blazing and he wasn\'t a part of the intial skirmish.

Oneal and Artest punching the fan on the court, thats an altogether different realm.  If Monica Seles has taugt us anything, you go onto the court and square off to a player, you get what you deserve.

Now on the other end of things, I on\'t blame the city of Detroit, I don\'t blame Detroit fans.  I blame the 100-150 fans that felt the need to act like idiots.  The fight was calmed and nothing would\'ve happened until ONE Moron started it again, then it was escalated by Artest making a dumb move and the 100-150 dumbass fans adding to it by throwing chairs, coming onto the court, throwing everything else, etc.  so Detroit will also get an unfair reputation for the incident.
Brad

Well he did not hit Artest at full point range. From the replay that has been shown millions of times looks as if the cup was empty when it Artest.

And it bounced off his chest. And it\'s a freaking plastic cup:rolleyes:  Now I am not all for the guy who threw it. Becase no matter how much of an idiot Artest is. That does not give you the right to throw anything at him.

In regards to situation Artest has to have common sense it was only a paper cup man.  It was the end of the game just walk off and let it ride.

The rest of the pacers staff and players who got into the fight should face penalty.

the fans were wrong, but it was just a damned plastic cup.  As a pro athelet you have to restrain yourself at moments like this.  I mean some of the more hated players face this kind of stuff on a regular basis.  You have security there to do the dirty work, he should have just pointed the guy out and let security take care of it.  This would be like if I were on the street surrounded by gang members and cops, a gang member throws something at me, do I jump him and have the gang jump me or do I let the cops do the dirty work for me, which is what there job is.

Originally posted by Luke
Detroit fans are morons

Agreed. In this instance, I have no problem with Ron Artest beating the shit out of any of those idiots. Detroit is such a shithole. Its pathetic that had to happen.

Where the hell was the security? That was ridiculous that fans were able to just walk on the court.

Once again, more reason to hate the city of Detroit. F*ckin armpit of America.

Originally posted by theomen
the fans were wrong, but it was just a damned plastic cup.  As a pro athelet you have to restrain yourself at moments like this.  I mean some of the more hated players face this kind of stuff on a regular basis.  You have security there to do the dirty work, he should have just pointed the guy out and let security take care of it.  This would be like if I were on the street surrounded by gang members and cops, a gang member throws something at me, do I jump him and have the gang jump me or do I let the cops do the dirty work for me, which is what there job is.

I disagree. Regardless if they are these high-pedestal athletes or not, they still have the right to defend themselves as individuals. The point is the security wasn\'t there to do jack shit, as evident in the video, and Artest won\'t take that shit, as he shouldn\'t. I actually hate Artest and think he\'s a dirty player, but in this scenario, every punch he threw was justified.

ever walked the "bad" streets?  If someone calls you a name you keep walking, because if you fight you\'ll just start something you can\'t finish.