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Originally Posted by sixate
Everyone that says Artest never shoulda went in the stands in crazy. I'll leave it at crazy because I can't use the words I want to use. To the people that say he should have done nothing... I would love to meet each and every one of you just so I could throw a cup of beer in your face because I know you won't do shit.. Even after I laugh in your face afterwords.
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Nice to know you'll only throw beer at people if they'll do nothing in retaliation.
Anyway, you're welcome to come and throw beer at me, because I will do nothing. Behaving like a cave-troll because someone else is behaving like a cave-troll does not resolve the matter. I don't have to engage in self-defence from getting wet (and anyone who thinks they do has serious self-worth problems), so I won't be punching your lights out. If you're so cowardly that you want to throw beer at me from a distance because you're too scared of actual physical confrontation, then you're welcome to do so. To me, it's the same as name-calling and I will be the one laughing in your face.
Mark Jackson and some of the other SportsCenter panel were laying the blame for this fiasco at the feet of the culture of "disrespecting" that is so prevalent in society today, where "self-defence" is engaged in not to protect one's body, but one's ego. I'd have to agree.
I also don't understand why some people say that the Pistons have got off lightly in this whole episode. Ben Wallace's suspension was longer than has been handed out to players who actually threw punches previously. Chauncey Billups, Elden Campbell and Derrick Coleman were suspended for leaving the bench when Armageddon was erupting all around them. What were they supposed to do? Staple themselves to their seats so that they rioting public all around them couldn't remove them with crowbars? As far as I'm concerned, the only person who got off lightly was Stephen Jackson.