OT Miami Heat fan gets kicked out after calling Russell Westbrook ‘boy’

Why are NBA players so soft when they have millions of reasons not to be.

Hecklers have been heckling forever.

 

that irate fan was using the F word in a hostile fashion. Take a hike dude

 

Bro, society has gotten so soft and offended at ANYTHING. You read the OT forum at all?

Ribbing and Jawing has been cancelled by the sensitives.

 

Only after Westbrick engaged. Why even engage with the fan? The money made alone should elevate them above such petty back and forth. Get over it Westbrick…

 

That fan was complaining about buying an expensive seat behind the bench. It's best to be polite when you're in range of giant proffesional athletes that can kick your ass.

 

I don’t disagree it is best, but it isn’t reality and players should be above stooping to the same level as the fans. Yes, they are human, but they get paid millions to be professional and part of that is enduring heckling fans.
Westbrick is soft. He lets fans bother him more than most players I’ve seen. There are clips of other teammates having to pull him away from jawing matches with the fans. He just feeds into the fans desires when he goes back at them. He should know he already lost when he responds to hecklers. He lets them in his head.
Soft.

 

Who wants to bet he's a Trumper? Get that entitlement out of here.

 

I disagree that if you have millions of dollars, people can treat you however they want. This isn’t just heckling. “Boy” is what white men called their slaves. That language has no place anywhere. Just because there has always been heckling, it doesn’t make it right.

 

Im kind of in the middle on this. Westbrook got in someone’s face because they called him WestBRICK. But I agree that this particular guy was out of line. But this generation of players like Durant, Luka and Westbrook who get fans kicked out of games just for a little heckling is absurd.

Heckling has been a part of sports for a long time. This era of pansies are the first to really engage in the point to where they just point out fans that bug them and want them kicked out.

 

So if he had said son or kid, you would have been okay with it?

 

Do you think you calling them white means something? Sure, they spoke English which is why "boy" was used, but perhaps the Native Americans didn't use the word "boy" for their slaves because they didn't speak English. I think you are being kind of racist in a way.

I do have to wonder though about this theoretical white man you speak of who calls his slaves "boy", - well, was this simply a reservation for the slave, or was it a common use of phrase for an underling? Would not a poor white laborer be subjected to such language from a landowner? I can think of many instances of classism being mistaken for racism. It can still be racist, sure, but what gets me is that it only matters in the context of it being racist. No one gives a fuck if it was used as a sign of disrespect for any other reason. I find this kind of rationalization tedious and I don't subscribe to it. You know who is the most vulnerable group in terms of being subjected to violent hate crime? It's homeless people. No one would give a fuck if it was classist.

 

wtf did I just read

 

Man don’t bring political talks into this wtf.

 

Another weird ass take in here lmao.

Don’t be as soft as WestBrooke lolz

 

Ya russ was fully in the right here. That "boy" had connotations, especially the way he said it.

 

I’m not saying boy can’t be used as a racial connotation, but to just assume without any other racial connotation expressed, is assuming. Who says he wasn’t simply thinking Westbrick was acting like a child? A kid… a boy?
the quick jump to automatically think it’s racial is quite presumptuous.

Here is the thing. Basketball is predominately an African American sports. Most racists, I would think, wouldn’t be nba fans because of this. Why would racists pay that kind of money to watch those they hate?
I’m not so quick to just assume it was racist. I took it as him calling him a child for letting it get to him. Immature mind. A child’s mind. A boy’s mind.

 

Have you ever heard of Robin Ficker?

 

How much harder do you need to look to be offended? Man, grow a thicker skin.