Maybe the dumb who started this thread should edit the le.
One fan, one rock.
Not to mention his cutting off the article to mislead you people.
Full article.
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Police shrug at street party after Spurs win
Web Posted: 06/25/2005 12:00 AM CDT
Vianna Davila and Jerry Briggs
Express-News Staff Writers
On a night when most San Antonio fans safely celebrated a third Spurs NBA championship le, the only break the defeated Detroit Pistons could muster was a shattered window on the bus carrying them to the airport from the SBC Center.
But authorities said that overall, the postgame festivities went off without a hitch, despite the Pistons' troubles and large crowds gathering downtown.
"We can say with confidence that the crowds behaved in an orderly and controlled manner," San Antonio Police Department Spokesman Michael Muniz said.
The Pistons may have disagreed when someone on the street apparently threw a rock and hit a passenger-side window when the team was about a mile from the SBC Center, said Joe Arebalo, the driver of their bus.
"Everybody shouted, "Oh, (bleep). Get us out of here,'" said Arebalo, who drives for Coach USA.
Detroit team spokesman Matt Dobek said he thinks fans on the streets were aware that the Pistons were on the bus.
"They were all heckling us, but it wasn't that bad. They were cheering "Go, Spurs go,'" he said. "It was just this one person (who threw the rock). One can ruin it for everyone else."
Dobek said the Pistons didn't report the incident to law enforcement. But he said NBA security representatives were on the bus. Dobek said he doesn't see a need for a review of security in the wake of the incident.
Dobek said that when the rock hit the window, it startled the Pistons after their 81-74 loss to the Spurs in Game 7 of the NBA Finals. But they weren't that upset.
"It was just one fan," he said. "These things happen. No one knows that better than the Detroit Pistons."
A fan at a Pistons game threw a beer cup that hit Indiana Pacers forward Ron Artest during a game Nov. 19 at The Palace of Auburn Hills. Artest charged into the stands, and a brawl ensued between the Pacers and Pistons fans.
No such riots unfolded on San Antonio streets, although fans downtown and on the highways hit plenty of traffic.
Both Interstate 35 and I-37 were highly congested, almost to a standstill, SAPD Sgt. Gabe Trevino said.
Deputy Chief Rudy Gonzalez, police commander for the party, estimated 150,000 people flooded downtown after the game, Trevino said.
"We did have a major congestion issue," said Muniz, who added the streets were mostly cleared by 3 a.m. "The roads were backed up all over downtown. But given all that, the amount of tickets and arrests that needed to be cited were relatively low."
Police reported two felony arrests for criminal mischief, four public intoxication arrests in the downtown area, and two arrests for assaults and threats to police officers, Muniz said.
One person was issued a ticket for unlawful riding and another for allowing an infant to travel in a vehicle without a car seat.
There was a shooting in the area of the festivities, but police said it wasn't connected to the celebrations and might be gang-related.
From the perspective of Spurs fan Michael Garcia, 34, standing at Losoya and Commerce, Friday's early-morning party was a success.
"There was really a showing of all people of San Antonio," Garcia said. "Older people, younger people, high school individuals, college individuals, a real range of Spurs fans that were out there."
At one point small fights broke out between revelers and others who rocked cars or climbed on top of vehicles. But Garcia took it in stride.
"They were celebrating, they wanted to let loose some energy and that seemed to be the way to do it," he said
Please accept our apologies to the Detroit players and their fans. What a classless move. It was obviously a bunch of punks that were on their way to rob a gas station and then mug some old ladies when they spotted the Detroit bus.
If we lost game 7, OK, but not win we win.
Please accept our apologies to the Detroit players and their fans. What a classless move. It was obviously a bunch of punks that were on their way to rob a gas station and then mug some old ladies when they spotted the Detroit bus.
If we lost game 7, OK, but not win we win.
It was one fan who threw one rock.
That a bunch of punks or a group of idiots or a gang of mischivers.
Good you don't have to live in Poland
That is just awful...some of you seem really nice & I was planning on making it to a GTG but now I have to wonder if it will be safe...With all that violence & mayhem in the streets that you folks have going on in San Antonio...
oh well
Hey, remember every story has two sides.
Maybe the person who threw the rock thought T Park was driving (which, hey, let's all face it--he might have been).
It's not even fans that are doing this though. It's idiots - usually drunk ones - who don't know crap about the Spurs. It's the kind of people that just need a reason - or a six pack - to start acting like morons.
For instance, we get out of the celebration last night, and commerce is jam full of idiots. People dancing on their trucks with their shirts off and just acting ing stupid. Look, I'm all for a celebration, but I know some of the most hardcore Spurs fans in the world, and none felt a need to act like a complete jack ass.
I'm so sick of seeing people in every city hijack celebrations that real fans want to hold peacfully and in a classy manner.
if this had been detroit, it wouldn't have been rocks.. it would have been GUNSHOTS!
eggs or tomatoes would have been a better chioce. But still throwing enything at all is pretty imature. After all it is A GAME its not like they came here to threaten ours lives or something. IDIOTS
After perusing various and sundry posts throughout the day I am declaring yours as the
"IGNORANT POST OF THE DAY!"
and as punishment ye shall be exiled to the house of Detroit Pistons announcer John Mason where for a period of no less than 3 days ye shall alternate watching games 3,4 and 6 of the Finals while John incessantly hollers at thee "Deeeeeeetroit Baaaaaasketbaaaallll!
^^^^^
Yeah, your opinion matters soooo much.
Tony Pakha- How john mason says tony parker
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