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If I was going to steal food, it wouldn't be a Lunchable.
Nuggets’ Martin calls Cuban a ‘coward’
By Marc J. Spears, Yahoo! Sports
2 hours, 54 minutes ago
Buzz up! 6 PrintDENVER – Denver Nuggets forward Kenyon Martin(notes) is accustomed to being heckled on the court. But at his house, too?
Martin said Dallas Mavericks fans drove by his home in Arlington, Texas, at least six times this summer shouting insults.
“Some people still think I’m a thug,” Martin said. “My house is the biggest house in the neighborhood. People drive by … saying stuff like, ‘Mark Cuban was right.’ Me and my partners will be sitting by my pool or barbequing and we’ll just laugh at it.”
The heckling is just the latest incident in an ugly feud between Martin and Cuban, the Mavericks’ owner. During the Nuggets’ second-round playoff series in Dallas, Mavericks fans taunted Martin’s mother. After a fan allegedly called the Nuggets thugs, Cuban admitted to saying, “And that includes your son.” The situation grew worse in Game 4 when Martin threatened and cursed at some fans he thought had hassled his mother. Security also was called to address separate incidents between fans and the girlfriends of Martin and Carmelo Anthony(notes). After the game, Martin cursed out Cuban.
Cuban apologized to Martin’s mother in his blog, and it was thought that, given a summer to cool off, both sides would be eager to forgive and forget. For K-Mart, at least, that’s not the case. He’s still simmering over what Cuban said to his mother.
“My mom wasn’t playing. She didn’t suit up,” Martin told Yahoo! Sports. “She was there to see her baby play like she is at every game. She didn’t do nothing to nobody but have me. So therefore, for you to approach my mom, you’re a coward. That’s who you are, a coward. A tuck-your-tail-between-your-legs coward.”
Cuban chose not to respond to Martin’s latest salvo. “It’s over,” Cuban wrote in an email. “There is nothing to say.”
There’s also clearly no love lost between Martin and some in the Mavericks organization, who are upset with him for continuing to curse at fans on his way out of the arena. Martin also remains angry for being labeled a thug.
“I’ve never sold dope,” Martin said. “I’ve never been to jail. I’ve never been shot at. I’ve never been stabbed. I’ve never shot at nobody. I never got a DUI. Never got caught with a gun. None of that. I never broke into nobody’s house. I used to steal [food] as a kid to get by, Lunchables. I was hungry and I went through it.
“But I’m not a thug. A thug shoots people, gets shot, goes to prison and does stuff like that. I’ve never done any of the above. So how am I a thug?”
Martin knows his appearance – all those tattoos and his eternal scowl – along with his incessant trash-talking have contributed to that perception. Martin’s friends, however, think there’s a lot more bark than bite, citing the charity work he has done in Denver and Dallas. His mother raised him and his sister by herself in Dallas’ Oak Cliff neighborhood, which explains why Martin is so protective of her. His toughness and bravado also is born from the teasing he endured for stuttering as a child.
“My mouth is terrible when I’m on the court,” Martin said. “I don’t take no stuff from anybody. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. People look at that and they form their own opinion on what that is instead of looking back and really, really studying the situation. I’m judged more than anybody in this league.
“Like I told the guys at the [Nuggets team] dinner, ‘Don’t listen to how I’m saying it. Listen to what I’m saying because I know what I’m talking about.’ Some people get intimidated by it.”
Martin continues to make Dallas his offseason home, which only made him an easier target for Mavericks fans. He said the heckling began after a fan site posted pictures of his 13,000-square-foot Arlington mansion (complete with concrete lions to “protect his mother from angry NBA owners”).
“I have more people that drive by my house than visit a museum,” Martin said. “They’ll drive by, stop and look. Some people have something to say. But if they were to see me face to face, they would not have a word to say. Not a word.
“You can yell whatever from your car. See me face to face and say it, and see what you get.”
Martin and the Nuggets don’t visit Dallas until March 29. Cuban had previously offered to let Martin’s mother and the families of other Nuggets players join him in a suite if the playoff series had returned to Dallas. He probably doesn’t need to bother making a similar offer for the March game. Martin said he wouldn’t accept it.
“I don’t need your suite,” Martin said. “I can afford a suite and anything she wants. We don’t need your gifts or your handouts.”
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If I was going to steal food, it wouldn't be a Lunchable.
lol @ this beef
So according to K-Mart...... JR Smith and Melo are thugs
Take it to the streets guys
The man had to steal Lunchables to get by, and you people call him "Neck Lips" and "Thug"? For shame.
Lunchables are tasty man.
But they aren't exactly the most filling.
This guy is such a .
The s are the Dallas fans driving by his house and harrasing him.
And he's right about Cuban too, he is a coward.
His mom was begging for it. I hear tell that she took the weave out of one area Dallas fan's huge hair and swung it 'round her head like a helicopter, and now she is driving by every Mavsfan's house one by one and screaming obscenities! Does that sound like something that a civil person would do? Very uncalled for! The gall of that woman, coming to see her son play while in Dallas! She should be ashamed.
typical
Isnt it amazing how the truth is usually typical?typical
Grass is typically green
Farts typically smell
wood typically burns
Mavs fans are typically bags
Mark cuban is a typical coward
Funny how that typically works.
um, not even two weeks ago K-Mart was saying this whole thing was over with
http://www.fm1043thefan.com/Channels...spx?ID=1141203
one week he's cool with the situation, the next week he's ing about it, and back & forth we go. that guy is bipolar like a mother er.
I agree it should be let go and I dont like K-Mart as much as the next person but that doesnt change the fact that he has a valid gripe when fans of an opposing team wont let it go and verbally attack him at his own house.
And he is right to label Cuban a coward. You dont do that to someones mom no matter how much of a her son is being.
Actually I'd love to do that. Either he shows what a fugazi little pussy he is and backs down, or he punches me and I get to sue his ass. Win-win for me.
Seriously, I'm going to do this.
Take a camera!! I'd love to see it on youtube. Especially if you kick his ass.
lol seriously I may. I wouldn't fight him tho, I'd just take a punch and have my lawyer serve him his papers.
Or he's the type that rolls with a posse, You guys talk back and forth, he "goes" for you and they hold him back. Or one of his buddies lays you out and you get to sue his broke ass. Or maybe K-Mad does lay into you and convinces a judge that you're a crazed fan based on unstable internet posts and that you attacked him and he responded in self defense. Lots of possibilities.
You're both right.
Put this in the wrong thread...
Does K-Mart know that calling someone "gangsta" doesn't mean they're really a gangster?
Yeah but that would prove he's a fake tough pussy for having his boys "hold him back" from some dorky Mavs fan.
Same thing here. Just showing everyone he's fugazi.
I'll have that on video tape. I wouldn't say or do anything threatening to him. Just call him a thug and remind him of what he said he'd do if a Mav fan called him a thug to his face. Either he backs off like a pussy or he hits me and I sue him.
I really can't lose.
Ah-ite. Convinced me. Do it. But now you hunt the most dangerous game... man.
Somebody hook me up with an address. I'll drive down there right now
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