Another NBA player goes into the stands
 

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I think his reason checks out and is very warranted. But regardless of the situation, you hate to see this happen. The NBA needs to figure something out to protect players, thier families, and the fans without it becoming a military full of security.

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If his reasons are legit, and I have no reason to believe differently, I actually applaud the man.

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He should not be suspended for protecting his family, but rules are rules and he will probably be fined. And I'll bet you he'll pay that fine gladly knowing that his wife is fine.

I would like to see family/friends of the athletes sit in one specific section that can be monitored by security. You're bound to have problems when you have family members spread out all over the arena/stadium. There is no possible way that security can protect all family members when they're spread out like that.

Of course it's unfortunate that we actually have to protect athlete's family members. But that's the society we live in today.

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<devil's advocate>

Suppose I am at work. My wife is going to pick me up at work for lunch. She does not work at my place of employment. At the same time she is picking me up for lunch, a customer of ours is pulling into the parking lot to visit my company. For whatever reason my wife and my company's customer are involved in a dispute in the parking lot when I walk out (a driving incident, argument over a parking spot, whatever...). I walk into this confrontation. I am not sure of what happened or started it b/c I was doing my job when it started. Perhaps it is the customer's fault or perhaps it is my wife's fault. However, I step in and shove our customer. I call him some choice names. Other employees and our security step in and break it up. My customer proceeds to tell higher-ups in my company how he was treated by an employee of this company. Guess what probably happens to me? I probably get axed. Are NBA players any different? I think not.

Do you wonder if the Knicks 13-23 record is partly to blame on the lack of attention on the court and to the game by their own players? Seems as though Davis was not giving the game his 100% attention. Could Davis have had security handle the situation and avoided going into the stands? You better bet your life. That would have something to do with "cooler heads prevail".

Is going into the crowd ever justified? NO. I'd feel like a won the Lotto if an NBA player ever laid a hand on me. Unless I was obviously a threat to cause bodily harm to him, there is never a good enough excuse to lay a hand on me. Esp. when the person being touched is a fan in the stands.

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given what Davis said, he handled it a lot better than i would have. i can almost guarentee i'd have ended up with assault charges.

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No physical confrontation. No shoving. No punches. He saw his wife being hassled. He went to her. Are those priorities so bad? Would you just sit there and watch for security? It said his kids were there. You would let them see that without standing up to it? Sounds like his priorities are pretty good.

But rules are rules.

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People pay millions of dollars a year to watch NBA players do their jobs. I'm sure you're good at your job, but I doubt anyone pays money to watch you do it.

That doesn't give them license to attack people, but it does mean that their employers are going to give them more leeway than you or I would get from our employers.

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Yes, they are, and it should be obvious as to why. Money.

They generate Millions in revenue and are extremely difficult to find replacements for. That is just not the case for the average Joe.

The ratio of customer revenue/replacing employee is the driving factor here.

If the ratio is $100/$60,000 salary ... they probably apologize to the customer profusley and hide you for a bit.

If the ratio is more like $2.5M/$60,000 ... get your resume together, you're fired.

Now, if the ratio is $100/$50M over 5 years ... they escort the customer out of the building and tell him never to come back.

GL

edit: I didn't notice the <devil's advocate>, good conversation starter.

I pull out the same line of reasoning when anybody asks why is so-and-so "worth" $20M. I say if they can generate me $21M of profit, then they are "worth" every penny.

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If somebody is messing with my family, I'm not going to wait around to see what happens.

If that breaks the rules, tough. Fine me any way you choose.

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The Chicago Bulls organization should be fined for not having adequate security. If AD's family was being hassled, Security should've been on the scene well before AD had to take action.

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When things like this happen, the organization should be suspended from selling beer for a certain amount of games. 99% of these incidents don't happen without alcohol. If the arena/stadium can't provide adequate security, don't let them sell beer until they can get their act together.

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Bottom line is AD went into the stands and he should get atleast a 10 game suspension regardless of the reasons for going into the stand. But that won't happen because David Stern is an idiot and a terrible comissioner. Ever since the whole crazy thing in Detroit (which I am not comparing to this at all) Stern's suspensions of the Pacer players have been ridiculous. A few examples 1) Ron Artest 73 games--way too excessive 2)A seperate incident where Stephen Jackson was supsended a game for not leaving the court in a timely manner and verbally abusing an official. Well Lawrence Frank the coach for the Nets did the exact same thing but was only fined. Doesn't make much since except for the fact that Stern is an idiot and is out to get certain players and teams in the league.

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unfortunately, Davis will probably be fined. even more unfortunate is i think it almost has to be done, right or wrong.
however, i do believe he was right in doing this. i mean...it IS the guy's wife.
the fan, meanwhile, should be invited to never attend another NBA game for the rest of his drunken and miserable life.
that, or forced to attend only games with David Putty and his fellow "face-painters".