OT Miami Heat fan gets kicked out after calling Russell Westbrook ‘boy’

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MickZagger said:
Why are NBA players so soft when they have millions of reasons not to be.

Hecklers have been heckling forever.
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Bro, society has gotten so soft and offended at ANYTHING. You read the OT forum at all?

Ribbing and Jawing has been cancelled by the sensitives.
 
SharpeScooterShooter said:
Only after Westbrick engaged. Why even engage with the fan? The money made alone should elevate them above such petty back and forth. Get over it Westbrick…
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That fan was complaining about buying an expensive seat behind the bench. It's best to be polite when you're in range of giant proffesional athletes that can kick your ass.
 
Whyachi said:
That fan was complaining about buying an expensive seat behind the bench. It's best to be polite when you're in range of giant proffesional athletes that can kick your ass.
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I don’t disagree it is best, but it isn’t reality and players should be above stooping to the same level as the fans. Yes, they are human, but they get paid millions to be professional and part of that is enduring heckling fans.
Westbrick is soft. He lets fans bother him more than most players I’ve seen. There are clips of other teammates having to pull him away from jawing matches with the fans. He just feeds into the fans desires when he goes back at them. He should know he already lost when he responds to hecklers. He lets them in his head.
Soft.
 
MickZagger said:
Why are NBA players so soft when they have millions of reasons not to be.

Hecklers have been heckling forever.
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I disagree that if you have millions of dollars, people can treat you however they want. This isn’t just heckling. “Boy” is what white men called their slaves. That language has no place anywhere. Just because there has always been heckling, it doesn’t make it right.
 
KingSpeed said:
I disagree that if you have millions of dollars, people can treat you however they want. This isn’t just heckling. “Boy” is what white men called their slaves. That language has no place anywhere. Just because there has always been heckling, it doesn’t make it right.
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Im kind of in the middle on this. Westbrook got in someone’s face because they called him WestBRICK. But I agree that this particular guy was out of line. But this generation of players like Durant, Luka and Westbrook who get fans kicked out of games just for a little heckling is absurd.

Heckling has been a part of sports for a long time. This era of pansies are the first to really engage in the point to where they just point out fans that bug them and want them kicked out.
 
KingSpeed said:
I disagree that if you have millions of dollars, people can treat you however they want. This isn’t just heckling. “Boy” is what white men called their slaves. That language has no place anywhere. Just because there has always been heckling, it doesn’t make it right.
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So if he had said son or kid, you would have been okay with it?
 
KingSpeed said:
I disagree that if you have millions of dollars, people can treat you however they want. This isn’t just heckling. “Boy” is what white men called their slaves. That language has no place anywhere. Just because there has always been heckling, it doesn’t make it right.
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Do you think you calling them white means something? Sure, they spoke English which is why "boy" was used, but perhaps the Native Americans didn't use the word "boy" for their slaves because they didn't speak English. I think you are being kind of racist in a way.

I do have to wonder though about this theoretical white man you speak of who calls his slaves "boy", - well, was this simply a reservation for the slave, or was it a common use of phrase for an underling? Would not a poor white laborer be subjected to such language from a landowner? I can think of many instances of classism being mistaken for racism. It can still be racist, sure, but what gets me is that it only matters in the context of it being racist. No one gives a fuck if it was used as a sign of disrespect for any other reason. I find this kind of rationalization tedious and I don't subscribe to it. You know who is the most vulnerable group in terms of being subjected to violent hate crime? It's homeless people. No one would give a fuck if it was classist.
 
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That is a racially charged term. Period.

Whether that's enough to get a dude booted or not is another question, but this is not a "Westbrick" situation where Westbrook is just making up a reason to get a person kicked out.
 
KingSpeed said:
I disagree that if you have millions of dollars, people can treat you however they want. This isn’t just heckling. “Boy” is what white men called their slaves. That language has no place anywhere. Just because there has always been heckling, it doesn’t make it right.
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Another weird ass take in here lmao.

Don’t be as soft as WestBrooke lolz
 
KingSpeed said:
I disagree that if you have millions of dollars, people can treat you however they want. This isn’t just heckling. “Boy” is what white men called their slaves. That language has no place anywhere. Just because there has always been heckling, it doesn’t make it right.
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Ya russ was fully in the right here. That "boy" had connotations, especially the way he said it.
 
I’m not saying boy can’t be used as a racial connotation, but to just assume without any other racial connotation expressed, is assuming. Who says he wasn’t simply thinking Westbrick was acting like a child? A kid… a boy?
the quick jump to automatically think it’s racial is quite presumptuous.

Here is the thing. Basketball is predominately an African American sports. Most racists, I would think, wouldn’t be nba fans because of this. Why would racists pay that kind of money to watch those they hate?
I’m not so quick to just assume it was racist. I took it as him calling him a child for letting it get to him. Immature mind. A child’s mind. A boy’s mind.
 
I’ve asked two of my black friends if they took offense to that? Both laughed and said no.

There definitely is crossing the line when it comes to fans as they can’t just say anything and especially racist things but that yesterday was nothing.

If a fan isn’t crossing the line then it’s more on the player, in this case WestBrook just letting someone get under his skin.

Do players understand that if not for fans that pay for tickets for NBA games they wouldn’t get paid to bounce a ball and play basketball and get paid greatly for it?
 
sheed30 said:
I’ve asked two of my black friends if they took offense to that? Both laughed and said no.

There definitely is crossing the line when it comes to fans as they can’t just say anything and especially racist things but that yesterday was nothing.

If a fan isn’t crossing the line then it’s more on the player, in this case WestBrook just letting someone get under his skin.

Do players understand that if not for fans that pay for tickets for NBA games they wouldn’t get paid to bounce a ball and play basketball and get paid greatly for it?
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The lengths some take to imply racism stretches further in this forum than any other place in life that I experience.
 
SharpeScooterShooter said:
I’m not saying boy can’t be used as a racial connotation, but to just assume without any other racial connotation expressed, is assuming. Who says he wasn’t simply thinking Westbrick was acting like a child? A kid… a boy?
the quick jump to automatically think it’s racial is quite presumptuous.

Here is the thing. Basketball is predominately an African American sports. Most racists, I would think, wouldn’t be nba fans because of this. Why would racists pay that kind of money to watch those they hate?
I’m not so quick to just assume it was racist. I took it as him calling him a child for letting it get to him. Immature mind. A child’s mind. A boy’s mind.
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Slave owners had their slaves fight each other for their entertainment. You can absolutely be a basketball and a racist.
 
sheed30 said:
I’ve asked two of my black friends if they took offense to that? Both laughed and said no.

There definitely is crossing the line when it comes to fans as they can’t just say anything and especially racist things but that yesterday was nothing.

If a fan isn’t crossing the line then it’s more on the player, in this case WestBrook just letting someone get under his skin.

Do players understand that if not for fans that pay for tickets for NBA games they wouldn’t get paid to bounce a ball and play basketball and get paid greatly for it?
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Your two black friends laughing if off doesn’t make it not racist.
 
maxiep said:
How much harder do you need to look to be offended? Man, grow a thicker skin.
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Not very hard. I apparently am not the only one that felt this way, especially reading this thread and the majority on other forums. You appear to be among the smaller minority of people who can't see the obvious.
 
KingSpeed said:
Your two black friends laughing if off doesn’t make it not racist.
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Um, i rather an opinion from a black person in this conversation hold more weight over your opinion and other woke people’s opinion.

Also doesn’t mean Westbrooke has to have super sensitive skin and ask a fan that paid money, the same money that allows WestBrook to get paid, to get kicked out.

plus, how can you judge that guy just based on what he said? Ever been around some hillbillies or country people that say “BOY” every other sentence? “Get your ass over here, BOY” go do the dishes “boy”
 
KingSpeed said:
Slave owners had their slaves fight each other for their entertainment. You can absolutely be a basketball and a racist.
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I think it would be an extreme rare case a racist would actually purchase darn near courtside seats and help the growth of the wealth of NBA players, if they are truly racist.
Ive cancelled a few ex friends due to thier racism and not one of them had any interest in the NBA. As a matter of fact, becoming a season ticket holder shed the light for me on one of them who responded to it with, “why would i want to support those, nig****? They are criminals. Don't give them any money.”
I told him he is a racist moron and we haven't spoke since.
 
My post was more in reference to this being an issue league wide, not just this instance. The thin skin of players these days is crazy. Why even engage? It’s like a little brother poking and prodding at you for the sole reason to poke the bear and get that kind of reaction.

I mean to be playing a game you love for millions of dollars and you let fans get to you that much is crazy to me. Bird, Jordan, Reggie Miller and greats of the past wouldn’t engage. They’d step up their game and make a fun game out of the jabbing.

Didn’t Doncic just have a fan kicked out for saying he needed to get on the treadmill? Which also happened to coincide with him having a shitty shooting game? Good grief. They do it more knowing they’re so easily triggered.
 
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