I was working the games..
Yeah, if you think, regardless of how offensive or triggering a fucking spectator's words are, that turning something verbal into something physical is classy, we definitely see things differently. As far as I know the NBA has always had courtside seats and seats in the row right behind the bench seats the players have sat on. Those seats sell for a lot because of the proximity to the action and we've had very very few incidents due to fan proximity. I don't think fans saying vile things to players is the exception here, Nurk's lack of self control is. The positioning of the fans isn't problematic because historically and statistically an insignificant amount of incidents have come as a result of fan proximity. Nurk's actions are problematic though because he has shown less self control than almost every player in league history.
Forget about historically.
Oh please site how I'm wrong about the statistics when it comes to players engaging heckling fans physically? Also don't site some bullshit that goes on elsewhere when NBA fans have been yelling vile things at players for nearly a century. Shit in the NBA hasn't changed because assholes aren't respecting the order of law in airports. If anything over the years fans have stopped throwing objects at players as much and most of the racist slurs have stopped.
Hell, 30 years ago my brother in-law had to put his big ass video camera (huge) in everyones face during fam get togethers. Man, that got tiring.
This happened in Indiana with a Pacer fan? What do the Piston fans have to do with this?
yeah and every family or group had at least one person non stop scanning the crowd with one on their shoulder.
Aumsville/Turner cops are the WORST!
Yes and No
I respect that. Had Nurk had to walk by this fan on the way off the court, I’d be cool with it. He walked ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE COURT away from our locker room to confront this guy. Changes everything in my opinion.
At an NBA game, not very likely.
nurk clearly heard him, otherwise he wouldnt go there to confront him
Yeah a ticking time bomb that has been so volatile that it's gone off like twice in the history of the game. Find me an example of it going really bad besides Vernon Maxwell in 1995 and the Malice at the Palace. I'm pretty sure what Nurk did is the third most aggressive thing that's ever happened from a player to a fan. Fans have thrown things at players but that has been more dangerous in baseball and football who have huge barriers between the fans and players. Your take on this one lacks anything in the way of evidence to support your level of concern.
I am trying to stay civil with you, but you are beginning to anger me...
I don't know if he's been in law enforcement or not but he's going to have to give a little more evidence to his posts of impending doom despite the hundred plus thousand games played in the history of the league with really only one serious incident and never any serious injury or death. Statistically the players have been a much greater danger to each other than the players are to the fans or vice versa.
Going back and forth with fans, even the fans that are on the court after games has been happening as far as I know throughout the history of the game... that's at every level of the game where proximity is just about the same as it is in the NBA. Still we've seen no reason to think that a serious incident is impending. Sorry you're getting angry because you have a suspicion that I find to be far more based in paranoia than in any kind of reality.
