What's up with Utah fans? Apparently this guy told Westbrook to "get down on your knees like you used to." Westbrook fined, Jazz fan banned for life.
Russell Westbrook goes ballistic on racist Jazz fan.
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What's up with Utah fans? Apparently this guy told Westbrook to "get down on your knees like you used to." Westbrook fined, Jazz fan banned for life.
He said "sit down and ice your knees, bro". Wasn't exactly racist and definitely not worthy of a lifetime ban.
Also in before cave
Also in before cave
Racist or not this is why going to live pro events sucks. The way people/fans who are supposed to be adults behave is embarrassing.
That's what the fan said afterward but two OKC players dispute that. Do you think this "fan" is NOT a racist?
Most of the time it’s “adults” who aren’t used to people saying ‘no’ to them.
Racially charged or not, this **** is only going to keep happening
Honestly it sounds like theyre both lying or embellishing the situation. The fan sounds like even more of a liar when he said his wife did absolutely nothing but majority of the voices you hear in one video is a woman too. What did he say that was supposedly racial too? I must not have heard that and how its perceived as racial.
Either way you have to be some type of piece of **** to yell at players like that.
He should have got that new alt right Yelp app to tell him Jazz games weren't MAGA friendly.
Let's say one is an angry, racist white guy -- why do you bother paying attention to the mostly non-white NBA? It just seems that you'd be attracted to other types of entertainment.
I love his quote calling Westbrook "classless". He himself just emanates such dignity ...
It took about 5 seconds of the interview with the fan for me to decide whose account I was going to believe. The guy was a total tool.
Good for Westbrook. It astonishes me what fans get away with by virtue of paying for a ticket. Talking **** to someone who would undoubtedly kick the ever living **** out of you because you know they can't do anything? True tough guy stuff there.
Good for Westbrook. It astonishes me what fans get away with by virtue of paying for a ticket. Talking **** to someone who would undoubtedly kick the ever living **** out of you because you know they can't do anything? True tough guy stuff there.
The guy must have gotten lost on his way to a NASCAR race.
If evidence surfaces that proves it then I guess we all owe him an apology. But as of right now there's really nothing out there to support his version. Meanwhile you have multiple teammates and fans who were sitting in that section backing up Westbrook's account. And the Jazz decided they had seen and heard enough in their investigation to issue a lifetime ban.
So yeah, if new information surfaces then maybe everything changes. But as of right now, based on what we do know, who are you gonna believe?
Both Westbrook and the fan need to grow up and treat fellow human beings with more respect. Not agreeing with what the fan said but all Westbrook needed to do was be the bigger person and engage security to handle it instead of trading obscenities with him and escalating it further.
Yeah, Westbrook reacted poorly. But the point isn't that he overreacted. The important point is that he (nor any other player, whether they're thin skinned enough to respond to heckling or not) shouldn't have to tolerate that nonsense in the first place. If this serves to remind fans that the cost of the ticket doesn't afford them the right to say whatever they want without consequence then I'm on board with it. The league is going to have another Malice in the Palace on their hands if they don't get out in front of this.
