Fan Who Threw Water Bottle at Kyrie Irving gets Banned for Life - What's that even Mean?

You are the moran here. The NBA, NFL, and Boston Garden are separate entities. The NBA didn’t ban the fan for life - it was the Garden. Unlike law enforcement officers, athletes suspended by the league do not get paid so Artest and Rice had much harsher punishments. In fact, Rice received a de facto lifetime ban after his domestic violence came to light.

Unequal justice wrote:

Where exactly in my post did I say fans should be allowed to throw things at players? Where did I say a ban wasn't justified? I compared the way the NBA (and other sports organizations) ignore problems by the players bit then give fans the death penalty. Ron Artest runs up into the crowd and randomly starting beating on a man (who turned out was completely innocent) and he gets an 86-game suspension, essentially one season. An NFL player tests positive for steroids and he gets an 8-game suspension, half of season. Ray Rice beats the crap out of his girlfriend and gets a two-game suspension. Fan throws a water bottle at a player and gets banned for life. If you think that is equal justice then you are the dumb@ss.

LOL. WTF are you talking about with this "equal justice" nonsense? You're acting like the NBA is an agent of the US justice system. They are a private business! They are under no obligation to treat their players the same way they treat fans. Ron Artest was an all-star who made the league money. Of course they're not going to subject him to the same punishment they'd give to an idiot fan.

Wait a minute. Why are you condoning throwing objects at players? Don't you realize that this could easily turn serious? It could be a glass bottle or worse. The NBA does not want its players, exposed to the potential wrath of 20,000 fans in a full arena after COVID, to be attacked or to be provoked into a reprisal attack, which was what happened when Artest had a drink or popcorn thrown on him and then attacked the member of the crowd he thought had done it. That incident hurt the league. Plenty of baseball players would go up into the crowd after things like this happen to them if there weren't ten foot walls separating them from the fans in the outfield.

Artest got what was at the time probably the longest suspension for a player ever. But it's different to suspend a player and thus end his livelihood and to suspend a fan from attending, and thus merely alter his entertainment options.

Facial recognition technology was considered for identifying Charles Oakley if he came to Madison Square Garden.

https://theathletic.com/news/msg-considered-facial-recognition-technology-to-id-charles-oakley-shattered/Zly52V8cGMm8

xczvzxcv wrote:

Wait a minute. Why are you condoning throwing objects at players? Don't you realize that this could easily turn serious? It could be a glass bottle or worse. The NBA does not want its players, exposed to the potential wrath of 20,000 fans in a full arena after COVID, to be attacked or to be provoked into a reprisal attack, which was what happened when Artest had a drink or popcorn thrown on him and then attacked the member of the crowd he thought had done it. That incident hurt the league. Plenty of baseball players would go up into the crowd after things like this happen to them if there weren't ten foot walls separating them from the fans in the outfield.

You can't read. I said I do not condone fan violence. Therfore I am against fan violence. The players are not held to an equal standard though. They can get away with things while there seems to be zero tolerance these days for fan incidents. Double standard.

It was an unprovoked assault no matter what was thrown. I believe the guy has been charged with a felony. What possible justification is there for throwing anything at a player. If I own a professional sports team and someone throws something at a player I'd ban them for life too. You don't want your team being identified as one that doesn't protect its players from unruly fans and you don't want fans getting the idea that they'll be slapped on the wrist at worst if they attack players.

In NYC you would not face criminal charges.

An empty water bottle = lifetime suspension and arrest?

A kid who just lost his Dad.

xczvzxcv wrote:

Wait a minute. Why are you condoning throwing objects at players? Don't you realize that this could easily turn serious? It could be a glass bottle or worse. The NBA does not want its players, exposed to the potential wrath of 20,000 fans in a full arena after COVID, to be attacked or to be provoked into a reprisal attack, which was what happened when Artest had a drink or popcorn thrown on him and then attacked the member of the crowd he thought had done it. That incident hurt the league. Plenty of baseball players would go up into the crowd after things like this happen to them if there weren't ten foot walls separating them from the fans in the outfield.

Listen dumb azz troll, I am against fans throwing objects or any fan related abuse of players. Ive said it four times now. You need to get a dictionary. Condone means enable or allow. I said I do NOT condone, meaning I would not enable or allow such behavior. You are a clown.

The Unkle wrote:

A kid who just lost his Dad.

Lol. A kid? He's old enough to fight for his country. His dad must be turning over in his grave at the shame he has brought to his mom. Too dad he wasn't raised not to be a thug. Both parents are doctors and he doesn't know not to throw things at strangers. What a waste of a $52,000 a year high school education.

This is purely political movement by the NBA. If the perp were a poor innocent POC, then nothing would have been done. Either way, I don't care about the NBA. Their ratings are at an all time low. Please show us some liberal fact check site that says otherwise so we can see and believe the Truth.

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More 'fans'. I wonder if this one suffered a recent death in his family:

https://thespun.com/nba/washington-wizards/video-fan-tries-to-run-on-court-during-wizards-sixers-game

Kobe and crew wrote:

This is purely political movement by the NBA. If the perp were a poor innocent POC, then nothing would have been done. Either way, I don't care about the NBA. Their ratings are at an all time low. Please show us some liberal fact check site that says otherwise so we can see and believe the Truth.

The Garden banned him. The NBA is not involved so far.

black irish wrote:

The Unkle wrote:

A kid who just lost his Dad.

Lol. A kid? He's old enough to fight for his country. His dad must be turning over in his grave at the shame he has brought to his mom. Too dad he wasn't raised not to be a thug. Both parents are doctors and he doesn't know not to throw things at strangers. What a waste of a $52,000 a year high school education.

He threw an empty plastic bottle at a guy who the fans had been whipped up to hate by the media.

That's a "thug"?

What is wrong with you people? As the protected class gets away with sexual assault, murder, theft with no legal penalty, you want to throw the book at everyone else.

What a bunch of suckers

The Unkle wrote:

black irish wrote:

Lol. A kid? He's old enough to fight for his country. His dad must be turning over in his grave at the shame he has brought to his mom. Too dad he wasn't raised not to be a thug. Both parents are doctors and he doesn't know not to throw things at strangers. What a waste of a $52,000 a year high school education.

He threw an empty plastic bottle at a guy who the fans had been whipped up to hate by the media.

That's a "thug"?

What is wrong with you people? As the protected class gets away with sexual assault, murder, theft with no legal penalty, you want to throw the book at everyone else.

What a bunch of suckers

A 20 year ban would have been better. Can't go to a game, big deal.

It was only an empty plastic water bottle? How Ingrid see implied racism in this?