Prosecutor IDs Metro man who threw cup

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> In article <Ex0qd.2766$8S5.370360@twister.southeast.rr.com>, "Michael-NC"
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> > "Gary Collard" <yadayadayada RemoveThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > >
> > > Was Artest fined? If so, I did not see it.
> > >
> ...
> >
> > In a sense, he has been fined 5 dollars by the NBA. The decision to
suspend
> > him for the season boggles the mind when you compare his offense to the
> > consequence. Stern had several other options he should have considered
but
> > his driving force was to figuratively lynch Artest to placate the white
fan
> > base. There is no other reason fathomable for a 5 million dollar loss
of
> > income.
>
> Michael-NC, your own racism is on display. Stern would have done the same
> thing if a white player (with a history like Artest's) did what Artest
did.
> It's a straight-ahead business thing - the penalty must be huge.

That you would think it's a "straight-ahead business thing" is _exactly_ my
point. It's also my opinion that Stern would have _not_ suspended a white
player for the remainder of the season because a white player would not have
generated the multitudes of charges that the NBA is full of thugs,
criminals, drug abusers and is the banner waver for the Hip-hop culture.
IOW, these people start bleating this non-sense every time there is an
incident in the NBA involving a Black player, yet they don't even watch the
NBA. Somehow, Stern lets their voice effect his reasoning and define the
league. The fine on Artest is a defensive move by Stern when he should have
been on the offense the last 5 years.

> I can't imagine fans of any race or cultural background who would enjoy
> paying big bucks at events where the probability of a large, violent, and
> mentally unstable man (or men) coming up into the stands and start
smacking
> them around (innocent or not) is high.

Listen here, if you throw a cup of beer on _any_ man, you should that man to
react unkindly to you. It goes back to Stern and his Public Relations
disaster with the NBA that gives these idiot fans the notion that could come
into an arena and start insulting players in the most vile, disgusting way
imaginable. The NBA needs to codes of conduct for fans and fans to abide by
them. They have no right to throw things at players or curse them and it's
ludicrous that an NBA player be fined 5 million dollars for reacting to an
incident where he was struck by an object throw by a fan.

> But maybe you've got the germ of a new masochism and gang fight league
idea
> here. "Fans" try to be selected as the opponent of the night, while the
> "Players" choose who to go after.

Psycho-babble.
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"Michael-NC" <NoAddress.RemoveThis@desolate.com> wrote in message news:<Ex0qd.2766$8S5.370360@twister.southeast.rr.com>...

> In a sense, he has been fined 5 dollars by the NBA. The decision to suspend
> him for the season boggles the mind when you compare his offense to the
> consequence. Stern had several other options he should have considered but
> his driving force was to figuratively lynch Artest to placate the white fan
> base. There is no other reason fathomable for a 5 million dollar loss of
> income.

Yeah. You're right. I mean Artest was suspended for the rest of the
year but Wallace only got a slap on the rest. It MUST be racial.
Gotta keep those light skinned blacks down! Idiot.
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