New York Knicks ban fan from Madison Square Garden for spitting on Atlanta Hawks' Trae Young
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...wks-trae-young
Fan who dumped popcorn on Russell Westbrook gets indefinite ban from Wells Fargo Center, loses Philadelphia 76ers season tickets
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...season-tickets
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Draft: Trade a 3rd and 6th this year to a team to move up and get a 2nd next year (this will happen).
Players I want:
Jake Ferguson (Jake Butt) or Jelani Woods or Jeremy Ruckert or Cade Otten (owen daniels) at TE- All 4th rd or later.
Troy Anderson LB 3rd/4th rd (yay Timmy!)
Neil Farrell, JR DL- run stuffer- bye purcell
Maybe I'm in the minority with this take, but I'm kinda amazed at how riled up people are over the popcorn throw. It's freaking popcorn, it's not going to hurt anyone. He should definitely be banned from games but I'm seeing all kinds of takes that he should be charged criminally. I guess by the letter of the law it's assault or battery, but that's about as mild as assault could possibly be.
I think a lot of it is how dramatic Russ was in his postgame comments. It's hard to know whether he's right and that fan harassment has sort of gotten out of control - or if he's just kind of soft relative to guys who came before him.
I will add that it's basically an American pastime to dump a beer on the opposing player if they jump up into the stands to celebrate in football. We need to preserve our rights!
I do get Russ' frustration. If someone dumped a tub of popcorn on my head while I was at work I'd probably be pissed off too. But all the media reaction to it has just been crazy to me. I also get that it can be a slippery slope where if you don't make an example of the popcorn guy maybe the next fan does something worse, but on the other hand it feels like maybe we've just become too soft as a society.
I think it is because it doesn't exist in a vacuum. There's a lot of abuse going on in the stands towards players. This is relatively mild, but I also would be interested to know what else was being said to him.
For reference - Apparently the Morant family received a bunch of racist harassing during the game, from fans. Someone spit on a player during the knicks game.
I...I can't believe I'm sticking up for Westbrook.
Players should be allowed to fight 1 fan per year.
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