A couple of thoughts: 1) I hope our reactions would be the same if it was a scrub. The question is, would the guy's reaction have been the same? I want to give the guy the benefit of the doubt he was hurt but maaaan.... 2) At worst the guy got the wind knocked out of him. If you've played any sports, you've suffered worse and you weren't taken off on a stretcher. 3) When I saw the video, the girl did not start crying until KG walked over to apologize to the guy. She may have been scared why everyone was staring at them and it got worse after that (stretcher, booing). I feel sorry for her.
what a loser/dumbass/prick/idiot. the guy has court side tickets and is not paying attention? give me a break. this guy shows how smart he is by not catching or moving from the ball...cause he had plenty of time to move. kg should get an apology from this 'fan'...and should never be allowed back to another game with that kind of attitude. the nerve of this people that dont appreciate what they have...to see a nba basketball game up close and personal. if I was there it would of been a completely different story...
a 5 year old would not have been hurt by KG's toss. guys do what he did every single night. it looked to be the equivalent of when baseball players toss the ball into the stands.
I got whacked in the head by a medium/fast pitching machine and walked away from it under my own power. It would be EXTREMELY hard to get knocked out by a basketball.
TO BE FAIR If Artest had threw it. . . we'd hear about his intense work outs and how he is stronger than he looks Rocket River
I want Yao to hit a courtside fan with the ball. Not the weak stuff that garnett threw, I mean really swing it at some chap. I want that chap to be Steven Smith or Greg Anthony. I will even standby with a stretcher. I will help load them up on the stretcher. Where I will take them is none of ya'll business.
mario elie got torpedoed by a danny ainge ball and IIRC, elie didn't exactly have to go get life-flighted out of the building. this fan is a grown man, and from what i've heard and read, it wasn't a big impact. what a p***y.
I'm with you guys on the players getting punished for their hissy-fits. Not only should KG get a few games, I hope that guy sues him. I'm not sure if I'd sue him if it hit me, but if the ball hit my kid, he would have hell to pay. Have some decorum, KG.
Yeah, the nerve of that fan, sticking his head out there for the basketball to hit it? Come on people.....KG threw the ball, he should be held accountable. DD
And now....the rest of the story http://www.startribune.com/511/story/274213.html A few excerpts: "The man was wheeled out of the Target Center bowl on a gurney at the insistence of the Timberwolves and not at his request" "According to Tempesta, the man bears no grudge toward Garnett or the organization, plans no legal action and simply wants to put the incident behind him. Thus, Tempesta said, his friend was not interested in talking about the situation himself. "He was not mad for a second at [Garnett]," Tempesta said. "He's mad at anybody who portrayed it that way. ... He's embarrassed about the whole thing. The only thing he's angry with is how the crowd reacted to him.""
easy to say that kind of stuff later...but if you watched the replay then you couldn't tell me he wasn't acting hurt or mad...
accountable for WHAT??? rain drops hit he sometimes when i don't like it... ...should they be held accountable?
Nobody controls rain though. If I shot a gun in an empty field and it passes through a line of trees or bushes and hits somebody I should and would be held accountable for my actions. KG was held accountable as he was fined by the league and they deemed it not necessary to suspend him so there.
Have you ever been hit, even a glancing blow, in the eye/nose area? Your eyes immediately water up, it's hard to focus and you are a bit dazed. This guy gets hit totally unexpectedly in the face with a thrown ball and all he does is catch grief because he "acted" hurt and/or mad. He catches grief because he is wheeled out of the arena even though it is at the T'Wolves management's insistence. Sorry folks, but the fan is the victim here. He has done nothing wrong. he accepted Garnett's apology. He is not threatening any legal action and he did not ask to be wheeled out of the arena. Exactly what has he done wrong? Who's to say how any of us would have acted under the same circumstances?
I agree. We should live in a state of anarchy where nobody is responsible for their actions. Oh and by the way, your raindrop comparison was dead on.
he may not have been asked to be wheeled out...but who the hell would let themselves get wheeled out of those seats anyways????? i would tell the stretcher people to leave me alone and move on.
it may not have been the perfect analogy...but the fact is...he did NOTHING. if everybody was fined $5000 everytime they unintentionally disturbed another person - it would also create chaos.
There's a difference between "doing something wrong" and milking a situation for all the attention you could get. Don't give me this crap about the stretcher being at the Timberwolves insistence. Anyone with a brain in their head would know that getting hit with a basketball at that speed wouldn't cause most 8 year olds to cry, let alone be any serious cause of concern. He didn't have to allow the stretcher, he chose to do it, so it is as much on him as the Timberwolves. He was booed for acting like a p***y. And yes, I've been hit in the nose plenty of times much like he was, and it does make your eyes tear up, but it doesn't make you dazed like you just got an uppercut from a boxer, it just stings for a little while. I'm confident that this press after the fact is merely the guy realizing how silly he looked after he got a chance to see it, knowing then that he had no chance to get money in a lawsuit, and is just trying to save as much face as he can. If you paid the kind of money I imagine he paid to be sitting that close, would YOU allow the team to cart you off on a stretcher when you know full well that you are perfectly fine? I sure as hell wouldn't.
It is interesting that you know exactly what you would do in a situation that you have never been in before. Or have you been hit in the face unexpectedly (i.e. after a play is over and by a thrown ball that players get fined and/or suspended for) at a basketball game? In our litigious society, I assume that the T'Wolves management wanted him immediately examined for any injuries. They insisted he be carted off. Again, what did this guy do wrong?
