Nets: Griffin's world gets messier

[InNETSweTrust]

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">John Dodds knew he was in trouble the moment Eddie Griffin started flexing.

"He was sticking out his chest, trying to scare us," Dodds said. "It was like he thought he was all-powerful, like he was King Ding-a-ling or something."


What began a few hours earlier as a chance encounter between a 21-year-old pro basketball player looking for a party and a group of young people just returning from a wedding was seconds from becoming violent.

The Rutherford police later called what happened at the Renaissance Meadowlands Hotel, early on the morning of Jan. 25, a "misunderstanding," a minor dispute over Griffin knocking on the wrong hotel room door and, ultimately, being spit on and becoming the target of a racial epithet.

To Dodds, a 23-year-old Orlando, Fla., resident, there was nothing to misunderstand. In that instant before his chin and Griffin's fist made contact, he knew exactly what was happening.

"All I was thinking was, 'Holy (smoke), I'm about to get in a fight with a 7-foot tall monster,'" Dodds said.</div>

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[Henacy]

I dont know about this one the Dodds people story is kind of hard to believe imo. People think they can make up any story they want due to a persons past. E. Griff is a trouble kid no doubt. We seen it with his fight at Seton Hall with Ty Shine. We seen it with what happened in Houston with an ex-lady friend. But if that cat spit in E.Griff's face then he deserved to get his chin checked. Its as simple as that. Its seems that this guy is trying to make up a bunch of excuses for why he spit in Eddie's face.