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Or had Ben Wallace not gone absolutely ballastic as if he'd just had his arm chopped off by Artest. It was a hard foul, not even flagarant really, just a hard foul, flagarant 1 at best. Dude went ape **** and riled up the crowd with under a minute left over some nonsense. It's easy to blame it all on 'Ron being psycho,' but Ben Wallace is the jackass most responsible for what went down.

Ben hit him, so what

Players have been hit before, and no im not calling it right

Its Ron who ran into the stands...that started the riot with the fans not Ben Wallace

The only one here who did something that definitely was off the charts was Ron Artest, and S Jax helped him only to get abandoned by Ron later on
....and even he called Ron an idiot for it

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He changed it up a few times, first I saw nothing, then a couple of pics, now just one pic and no links.

That's messed up and just another example of good ole Slumlord Sterling being himself probably.

He should've taken Mark Cuban's offer when he said he'd pay him to do it for the Mavs

[ex carrabba fan]

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So they didn't give away his seats?

No, Ron went into that zone nobody goes into thats what happened

There are no ifs ands or buts about it... he's responsible for his own actions, and in this case because of where he took it, it escalated into alot more

Nobody in pro sports goes and lays on a scorers table during a live game in the situation they were in, he should've been at his teams bench... and im not talking about what happens when youre in a situation, there would've never been one had this guy not gone psycho

I never said there's if's or ands or buts. It was wrong. What I'm saying is, it's real easy for you or me to say that, since it wasn't us.

He put himself in that situation, but did the cup of beer still hit him? Yes. There is a lot of blame to go around but I'm not one to judge anyone.

[King_B_Mack]

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Ben hit him, so what

Players have been hit before, and no im not calling it right

Its Ron who ran into the stands...that started the riot with the fans not Ben Wallace

The only one here who did something that definitely was off the charts was Ron Artest, and S Jax helped him only to get abandoned by Ron later on
....and even he called Ron an idiot for it

Ben didn't just hit him, he carried on a scene that didn't have to happened that sparked drunken *******es in the crowd to do what drunken *******es do, start thinking they're tough. No one has or probably will ever deny what Ron did was wrong, but just wrapping up the incident that night with 'you don't go in the stands, what happened is your fault' isn't right either and doesn't do justice in explaining the story of that night.

Ron Artest has mental issues, everyone knows that. Again, doesn't take him off the hook for what he did, but if you have a kid with mental health issues (or a grown man doesn't matter) and some one whacks him in the face with something and the kid goes nuts and beats the **** out of the guy is anybody all in that kid's face for beating some jerk's ***? Of course not, we let him know what he did was wrong, give him a suitable punishment for it and move on. We're not laying the blame for it solely at his feet.

Not quite the same scenario I know, but close enough. Bottomline, Ben Wallace doesn't carry on trying to get at Ron (after he walked away mind you) for five or six minutes and incense the crowd, we're probably talking about a different story.

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Ben didn't just hit him, he carried on a scene that didn't have to happened that sparked drunken *******es in the crowd to do what drunken *******es do, start thinking they're tough. No one has or probably will ever deny what Ron did was wrong, but just wrapping up the incident that night with 'you don't go in the stands, what happened is your fault' isn't right either and doesn't do justice in explaining the story of that night.

Ron Artest has mental issues, everyone knows that. Again, doesn't take him off the hook for what he did, but if you have a kid with mental health issues (or a grown man doesn't matter) and some one whacks him in the face with something and the kid goes nuts and beats the **** out of the guy is anybody all in that kid's face for beating some jerk's ***? Of course not, we let him know what he did was wrong, give him a suitable punishment for it and move on. We're not laying the blame for it solely at his feet.

Not quite the same scenario I know, but close enough. Bottomline, Ben Wallace doesn't carry on trying to get at Ron (after he walked away mind you) for five or six minutes and incense the crowd, we're probably talking about a different story.

I never layed the blame solely at Ron's feet, as stated above the guy who threw that drink should've been arrested, but Ron Artest is the common Denominator in this

He didnt step to Ben because Ben would've flurried his head into mashed potatoes, but yet he was upset enough to run at a little guy in the stands then he says he asked the guy if he threw the cup.. so he stops to reaason if the guy he just charged at full force was the right person or not?

Man come on, no matter what happens on the court you dont take the crap to the stands, cup of beer or not... You can't just turn into a vigilante

[Drewski]

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Aaaaand the Clippers drop this gem.

"He has not returned our support in an honorable way. He is not actually a fan of the Clippers, but a fan of what he can make off of the Clippers. We are no longer interested in that kind of association with him, and that is why we accepted his offer to remove our team name from his stage name.”

[ex carrabba fan]

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Hqahahahhahaha.

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So they didn't give away his seats?

I never said there's if's or ands or buts. It was wrong. What I'm saying is, it's real easy for you or me to say that, since it wasn't us.

He put himself in that situation, but did the cup of beer still hit him? Yes. There is a lot of blame to go around but I'm not one to judge anyone.

Im not judging anybody, I just said his actions right or wrong put alot of people in danger and it did because he went into the area you just dont go

I dont see where the argument is

[Jasong7777]

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Aaaaand the Clippers drop this gem.

The Clippers organization is trash. Has been and always will be. Dude has cheered for this team through all the bad seasons, now they start winning a little and this. Garbage.

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Aaaaand the Clippers drop this gem.

Wow... accepted his offer to remove his stage name

Thats just cold right there

Mark Cuban is laughing

[Titans4lyfe]

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There once was a girl who had a boyfriend who stayed with her even though she wasn't that attractive or popular. She then got a makeover, making her attractive and popular. The girl beginning thinking she was better than her boyfriend, who was there from the beginning even with all her flaws, and dumped him.

This is basically how I see the Clippers/Clipper Darrell situation.

[SteelersFreak]

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There once was a girl who had a boyfriend who stayed with her even though she wasn't that attractive or popular. She then got a makeover, making her attractive and popular. The girl beginning thinking she was better than her boyfriend, who was there from the beginning even with all her flaws, and dumped him.

This is basically how I see the Clippers/Clipper Darnell situation.

And add that she told everyone that he was just using her to get at her dad's money.

That's gotta suck for the dude, all these years being probably one of the only real Clippers fans in LA, showed so much support even when the Clippers were the joke of the NBA and the Clippers turn around and basically spit on him.

Glad to see that the Clippers' players are supporting him though, CP3, Griffin and DeAndre Jordan all tweeted in support of him today.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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And they're still the Clippers for a reason.

[Basketball GURU]

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http://rosedontdance.tumblr.com/

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Forrest Gump(minus the mental slowness of course) of the NBA I tell ya LOL.