Talking to you is like talking to a brick wall isn't it? Actually scratch that you're just a pissant who can't look at the big picture at all. If a person that you don't really know was to take your car keys while you were working and do all that stuff to you, I'm sure you would flip too. It's a bad april fools joke and not only that he invaded his privacy to do it. All you're doing is hating on him because he's kmart and he's a thug and all that stuff. You're the opposite of a kmart fanboy and you really can't look at it any other way because your brain is wired in the crappiest way possible. I'm not a fan of Kmart but when people rip on other people just for the sake of it it pisses me off.
Wow so because someone is a millionaire they should never get mad about anything. Hmm good to know. I guess money cures everything.
I agree that Martin has a right to be mad. But threatening not to play in the playoffs? What kind of threat is that? Kenyon, YOU are part of the team, do you know? If the team lose, YOU lose.
I'd be pissed off, too. Buttered popcorn? Why not smother some caramel on there. The reaction did go too far, sure. I think the sitting out the playoffs thing was an empty sore loser threat (I think). Part of a joke is also considering WHO you're pulling the joke on. You gotta consider the Ass-Beat risk into it. Would an Astros batboy have pulled a prank on Shawn Chacon? Would you prank Ron Artest? Though pranks on hotheads are the best pranks.. And why popcorn to begin with? Couldnt styrofoam filling or beanbag filling have been just as effective?
This is like the Howard Stern "whoever can't take our jokes are stupid" stance. After they go out their way to annoy the living ***** out of people. They focus on the person's foul reaction and compare them to "cooler" people. Its proven some people just cant take jokes, and some people don't possess a sarcasm meter. Donald Trump can pay 100,000 people to clean his Trump Towers. Does that give any person a right to toss a rock through its window? Or do prank graffitti and hold it up to Trump to "get it?" There's a big inconvenience factor in it along with the bad joke.
Wasn't Martin the guy who ridiculed Alonzo Mourning when he was career/life-threatening having kidney problems?
The funny part isn't the prank. The funny part is that Martin threatened to not play the rest of the season and the playoffs because of the prank. "Kenyon Martin was a pro basketball player for the Denver Nuggets who abruptly ended his playing career because of buttered popcorn."
the one guy on the thread who gets it. you guys ever been in a locker room before? every prank is borderline. none of it is done for your convenience. the point is to man up and take it in stride. what are you going to do? sue someone for sexual harassment if they pants you or the university for assault if they shave your head? regardless of the merits of the prank, Martin getting wet in the panties and threatening his teammates with a)physical violence then b)to quit and go home is precisely the funny ass **** that shows his character. obviously someone was going to pay to get the prank cleaned up. the entire point isn't the destruction of property it's to get a rise out of you. it's not like Martin was permanently harmed, how about not flipping out in the lockeroom and acting like a 4 year old whose ice cream fell on the sidewalk who gives a ****? dude chose popcorn. I doubt there was a complex cost-benefit analysis to the prank. according to half of the outraged parties here the issue wasn't even the popcorn. he was violated. because someone took his car keys... I just hope Kenyon Martin the terribly terribly violated player can find it in himself to just get past this and somehow find the strength to be able to concentrate for the rest of the season
Are you joking? Kenyon Martin can afford to get his freakin car detailed like its brand new. Someone played a joke on them and now he wants to assault them? GTFOH dude, he is a millionaire for playing basketball, a lot worse things can happen.
Another funny thing about this whole situation is that Martin can just BUY another Range Rover. "Put popcorn in my Range huh? I'll just go get another Range. Joke's on you, MFer!"
He can get his car detailed nicely for a max of $500, which should be nothing to him, I dunno what he's trippin about.
You are mad. Are you going to give up on your team? Did you even read what he said or are you a THUG FANBOY who thinks its okay to threaten boycotting playoffs? Hes a child and anyone defending him is a child too. Yeah blast me. I don't care. So if SHAQ pulls a prank on you, is it okay for someone to overreact about it with him?
Further context from the article They just slipped those parts in there at the bottom of the dramatics. I never thought Kenyon Martin was going to be all psychologically damaged by it, please. I even said Martin's outburst was mostly heat of the moment gibberish. I also said the bigger the ******* the BETTER the prank. Its the article making it like its some emotional distracting element to the team and they're self-destructing, NOT me. "Who gives a **** about - " EXACTLY, you said it. An impulsive half thought out prank gets an impulsive half thought out response back. No one talks about the approach to the prank because its "good natured". But you get to talk about the approach of the person that got pranked.
Why should Martin have to pay for the unintended damages to begin with? The cost should be on the prankster, not the recipient.
I wonder if most of us wouldn't be laughing our asses off if this happened to, say, the player we love to hate from the city we love to hate -- Dirk Nowitzki. In other words, would we defend his "I'm-pissed-that-someone-put-buttered-popcorn-in-my-ride"'s rant in the same manner that we're defending Kenyon's? Or does the game change based on who it happens to?
Nice to know some of you have double standards, to those of you that say he shouldn't be mad becase he's got money. Remember that the next time you get robbed, or vandalised, YOU HAVE no right to get mad, after all, theres some poor family in a refugee camp in Africa that doesn't even have enough food to eat, and you are a billionaire compared to those africans, so whining about a robbery just means you are a spoiled rich brat. See how that works? Also, there's no way in hell that the ball boy did this or will pay for the damages, it was most likely JR SMITH that ordered it and he is hiding like a coward now that it has blown up in his face.
To be fair, I'm cutting him less slack because I loathe the Nuggets and hate them more than any other team, even the Jazz. They behave exactly on the court as he is behaving off the court... throwing tantrums to the authority figures (refs) when things don't go their way, then turning around and trying to act like tough guys and thugs the next minute. It's the worst kind of hypocrisy and made even more annoying by how much the officials cater to them. Screw that entire team, I hope the franchise collapses in on itself like a black hole and everyone who touches it is sucked in financially.
