Russell Westbrook tells fan: "I'll f*ck you up, you and your wife"

Hell yeah.

 

Yeah its totally soft for someone to not tolerate racist/threatening remarks. Millennials amirite?

 

Some real clowns exposing themselves in this thread smh

 

Some fans today were just as vile as fans in the past. Jazz fans are probably the most racist scum anywhere. Russ has the right to defend himself if he feels threatened, but he is a professional athlete that has to find a way to rise about the words hurled at him Greater athletes played in more difficult times and came out unscathed. So while Russ has the right to defend himself, he has to rise above this in the long run. Too bad Jazz fans are the worst to get any sympathy from me...

 

you know what they say

 

Jazz fans are garbage.

 

Good decisions.

Westbrook is still a punk and I hope he never wins anything.

 

All WB had to do was walk toward the man and cuff his ear like " You said what now?"... Guaranteed that fan would've shrunk and sat his ass down...Works for me in these streets!

 

This situation is different in that the people you are describing here are peers. It's fair game between peers. But if the situation was that a bus official was getting into a profanity shouting match, even altercation, with a bus customer, then I can guarantee that he would be punished (likely fired) no matter what the other guy had said. You are the professional. You are supposed to keep your cool. If a customer is acting out of line, you deal with him in a professional way, such as asking security to remove the guy etc., rather than getting down to his level.

I understand that racism is an emotional issue. The reactions of a lot of people in this thread reflect those emotions. Our instinct is to beat up the bad guys. A lot of what great leaders like MLK advocated had been lost to this kind of emotions. But this is something that is supposed to be in the D&D which I avoid like I avoid the fire of hell.

 

The NBA should give the Jazz a warning to clean up that kind of crap with his fanbase. It's been too long.

 

there is no way a man would say these things to a woman if she didn't say anything. Most likely the lady is as racist as her husband or she wouldn't be with him. Being a woman does not give you the right to swear racial slurs.

What should he say to a disrespectful woman who's throwing personal insults and racial slurs? 'I hope they mess up your nails next time you go to a nail salon'?

She does not deserve mercy just because she's a woman. Hope she gets banned too

 

I wonder how the ban works. There's like 20k people every game and they don't check ID's. He can justnput on a beard, glasses and a hat and buy tickets under a fake name

 

All these ppl who are saying that russ should take the higher road bla bla bla. You don't realize russ prob gets insulted by fans every game. There's only so much a man can take especially if it's racist and over the line, things like you suck or whatever is pretty much the norm.

Secondly if he doesn't react it just reinforces the fans belief that it's ok to yell racist **** at games with no consequences and it'll influence other fans into believing it's ok as well.

 

Dayum. Human trash.

This seals it for me. Never liked Westbrook but I'll take his side on this 100 times out of 100.

Hopefully this will spark arenas to deal with complete douchebaggery from fans. Something they've never done in sports.

 

I don't judge or form opinions of members here based on what they post in the GARM but this thread is definitely showing a lot of true colors.

I can't believe some are comfortable in hating a basketball player enough to make up excuses to defend that racist's words/actions.

 

Shane Keisel, the Jazz fan involved in the altercation, got banned for life.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles...om&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial

 

The outcomes to this situation were justified and good for the NBA for both sides.

Although I don’t blame Westbrook one single bit for yelling at that racist guy and his partner, I do think it was appropriate to fine him $25K for the threat. Regardless of what was occurring he shouldn’t have said something like that to either the man or the woman. It just leads fools like that dude and other sympathizers to try to use the words against you. I don’t blame him for not being “perfect” like MLK/Jackie Robinson. Everyone has a breaking point, and to just say he should shut up is completely pathetic.

The NBA needs to figure out better processes and training to allow visiting/home players to notify security or other employees about problem fans before an issue escalated.

As for the guy who did that junk I hope he doesn’t get to see a single Jazz game in person for the rest of his life. What a vile individual and selfish human troll. Racism/homophobia can’t and shouldn’t be tolerated and fans who see that need to speak up.

I think the NBA should consider steps to sanction teams if they do not keep control of their fans and allow for repetitive racist/sexist/bigoted/etc. to be used. This is done in some European soccer clubs. Won’t solve everything, but will put the onus on the teams to get their act together. Stuff like this needs to be stopped.

Yes players make a lot of money but no amount of money should subject someone to verbal abuse by anyone. Especially during a game. Booing and jeering players is fine, but going beyond that needs to be rightfully banned and people removed immediately.

 

However, Keisel said he told Westbrook to "sit down and ice your knees, bro."

It's OK guys, he just told Westbrook to ice his knees. Good looking out.