$40K...yikes! and I was enraged for a week over a $150 speeding ticket. Of course, I was justified. It happened in Turner, Oregon and I got a ticked for going 28mph in a 25mph zone. I shit you not. That little piece of shit town is a speed trap. 50 dollars for every MPH over the limit that was 15 years ago and I'm getting pissed off thinking about it right now. What a little twerp sneering cop
Nurk should have just ignored it, but he's not the kinda guy to do something like this unless provoked.
Traditionally that’s the case. He didn’t touch him, and as fans change, players are going to change back to them. It’s natural and totally unreasonable to think these guys - who are human beings- are going sit there and take this shit is unrealistic. Maybe once a player or two or ten bites the bullet and takes the fine and suspension after confronting the fans people will wake up. We let fans get away with way too much just because they bought a ticket.
Maybe I am naive about this, but I still can't believe someone would be so stupid to say that. Other people actually heard it? If so then Nurk did a great job of restraining himself.
Nurk has always been a target for visiting teams. He has a "Laimbeerish" effect on opposing fans. Nurk gets heckled at every away game, constantly. He always ignores, or playfully reacts. This kid crossed anybody's line. To blame Nurk for his actions is just plain wrong. He should NOT be fined for showing restraint. This was a sensitive, personable attack.. If I had 40K, I'd pay his "fine" which I am hoping, behind close doors has already been rescinded.
My guess is that kid knew nothing about Nurks grandma and was just talking that high school level trash.
i mean, Nurk walks around every game with that locket with his Grandma's photo in it. You just knew this had something do with heckling about her given how he reacted.
I do think the kid crossed the line but that doesn't justify Nurk's actions. You can't escalate a situation from verbal to a physical act, even if that act is vandalizing the verbally offensive individual's possessions, that's still escalation. Nurk is in a public position and he's prone to reacting emotionally instead of rationally realizing that the guy who said it was trash and should have been ignored. The fact that you think escalating the incident was "showing restraint" is problematic. You're saying because Nurk just closed the distance with that fool, briefly forcefully stole his property and then most likely damaged it, he did well? I'm assuming that you're contrasting that with full on battery. So, if someone says something you like and you slash their tires instead of stabbing them with a knife you don't get credit for restraining yourself? SMH
Maybe it's just my nature, but I don't get the idea of talking shit to players. ' The only guy I've ever yelled at is Raymond Felton when he was playing in NY after he left us but I was just asking him if he missed Voodoo. He ignored me. Also, I'm usually way up in the cheap seats at games so it's futile to heckle.
You & I see this differently. I am applauding Nurk for many different reasons. I also applaud Russell Westbrook for his actions. The NBA has a serious problem with spectators being WAY TOO CLOSE to the players/coaches/officials. It is a ticking time bomb. Hopefully, Nurk's actions will highlight a part of your stance, which is escalation. It will only get worse, the league needs to know this. Considering content, Nurk's actions were very tame. There is a decent chance, unless the NBA moves spectators back 10-20 feet, that the next guy who gets heckled about a dead grandmother wont be a classy as Nurk was. Yes, I said "classy".
I went to the NCAA games at Moda last week with one of my sons. Somehow we ended up in the Indiana section, who was playing my alma mater Saint Mary’s. I just could not believe how awful these people were. We could only laugh eventually but fucking morons. Hey fans: the players and refs don’t hear 90% of the garbage you say. The refs don’t change a call because of you. It’s a game. Sit down and enjoy the ass whooping we put on you.
