Mayhem in Detroit

[Jimcs50]

Someone please make a video of the whole thing.

BTW, did I hear right that a beer bottle was thrown at Artest? Anytime anyone's ever thrown a glass bottle at me 's happened, and I don't fault Artest at all if this is the case.

I have it on video

[Brodels]

Someone please make a video of the whole thing.

Word.

[thispego]

LOLOL, what about all the poor saps that have Wallace, SJax, and whoever else is gonna get some suspension time off of this on their Fantasy teams, LOLOLOL

[ShoogarBear]

GOOD TIMES AHEAD: SET THOSE TIVOs NOW

Dec 25th Detroit at Indiana (ho, ho, ho!)
Jan 27th Detroit at Indiana
Mar 25ht Indiana at Detroit

[ducks]

Artest was totally innocent, he was not getting involved in the fight with the charging Wallace...he was all by himself minding his on bi=usiness and he was attacked by the asshole.

dude you are responisbile for your actions

you can say he was just defending himself but
if someone walks up to you and do that
and you beat the tar out of him adn break his jaw you are not justified becuase he threee his drink in your face

[SequSpur]

happens. Vegas has nothing to do with it. Win or lose.... that's betting.

[baseline bum]

I mean make a video and post it online - the whole thing, not just highlights. I gotta see this and it sounds too good to just catch the short version on SportsCenter.

[atlfan25]

Sweet. I bet Rasho would have hidden under a chair.

i bet rasho would have beat the out of everybody

[PeterBurns]

Just talked to Siciliano. Artest to probably get 10-15 games. SJAx 7-15 Also.

[Duff McCartney]

Someone please make a video of the whole thing.

BTW, did I hear right that a beer bottle was thrown at Artest? Anytime anyone's ever thrown a glass bottle at me 's happened, and I don't fault Artest at all if this is the case.

I don't think they have glass bottles at stadiums.

[atlfan25]

dude you are responisbile for your actions

you can say he was just defending himself but
if someone walks up to you and do that
and you beat the tar out of him adn break his jaw you are not justified becuase he threee his drink in your face

ya, he is justified.

[ShoogarBear]

If you have ESPN News, it's all they're talking about.

[diceman]

Artest and Jackson will get at least 10 games each for going up in the stands even thought the fans instigated things. Wallace 2-5 games. They will have the stagger the suspensions as they won't be enough players to suit up for the next game as they will be tons of one game suspensions for players leaving the bench.

[johnny00]

[QUOTE=SPURS21]Glad to be a spurs fan but wathcin that live on tv was the hi lite of my nite


Just to think if I would have gone out tonight I would have missed this.

[thispego]

definitely justified, Artest was the bigger man by walking away from Wallace after that shove.

[JsnSA]

Man...I was rewinding the thing on my DVR...rewatching the fight...and then it occurs to me that I should record this...once the fan fighting starts up. So I hit record (I was just rewinding the buffer before) and the freaking thing started recording fromt that moment..which was after the fight.

So I lost all the actual fight scenes. The damn thing is supposed to record everything I was watching when I hit record...not just from that moment. Thats half the reason it has the damn buffer.

I'm so pissed I could just chuck a cup of beer at a Time warner employee.

[ShoogarBear]

Just talked to Siciliano. Artest to probably get 10-15 games. SJAx 7-15 Also.

Then Wallace should get 20.

[Spurminator]

How fortunate is it for the NBA that this happened on a Friday night?

[johnny00]

Sweet. I bet Rasho would have hidden under a chair.

Sequa, you crack me up.

[Walton Buys Off Me]

Ron Artest is the ing man! Dude gets drilled in the head with a beer and proceeds to pumble the Christ out of ten Detroit drunks.

Stephen Jackson looked like a total idiot during the whole thing, and I loved the way Jermaine O'Neal starting acting tough when he was on his way back to the lockeroom- typical.

[exstatic]

Jim, you don't EVER go after fans for throwing a beer. That's not even self defense, as you can't be hurt by beer. The bottles are even ing plastic now. Stern will throw the entire library at Artest this time. What a dumb .

Detroit should take away the tickets of the fans involved, but they fans could also very well press charges. This was assault, not self defense.

[TwoHandJam]

Totally classless behavior by the Piston fans. Completely inexcusable. I can maybe understand Artest seeing red and losing it for a while but Jackson acted like a complete moron. He'll get the longest suspension by far. I'm anxious to see how the league is going to deal with this. This reflects very poorly on the league's image and I think Stern will crack down hard. One thing is for sure, two powerhouse teams will be crippled by suspensions for a long time.

[GoSpurs21]

Sweet. I bet Rasho would have hidden under a chair.

Leave to a jackass to take a shot at Rasho
Hey Sequ YOU
I know longer consider you a real Spurs fan...you are more like the Detroit fans and SA doesnt need your support

[ShoogarBear]

Old timers will tell you that fights with the fans were not unheard of back in the 50s and early 60s.

Yes, it's very bad. But not Armageddon.

P.S. How come nobody punched Jim Gray?

[Spurminator]

Yeah, Artest could've gotten off proving a lot of people wrong about him... now he's just one step closer to permanant expulsion from the league. Unfortunate.

Ex is right. Getting beer on you is not a license for assault. Let security do their job, or face the consequences if they fail to do so.