Six years ago the most entertaining thing Ive ever seen at a basketball game happened…
Ron Artest charged into a crowd of fans and started a mini-riot.
Normally I could care less about a mid season basketball game and this was nothing different, until late in the 4th quarter a tough foul escalated and Ron Artest ws in the middle of it. Yet the refs calmed him down and he laid down on the announcers table until it cooled off, but then a fans beer cup landed on his chest and he snapped.
If you were never privileged enough to see this, check it out. The insanity starts at 1:40 if you don’t wanna watch all the crap leading up to it.
So this was fucking GREAT. I hate most basketball players because theyre jerk offs who think their amazing at a mediocre game. So seeing an all out brawl go down made me the biggest Ron Artest fan on the planet. I laughed my ass off for 15 minutes as he went completely insane and actually decked a couple fans. Yet the NBA front office suspended him, made him go through mandatory treatments etc etc. Thus castrating my favorite player/boxer in the NBA.
Its been 6 years since that mini-riot, and in that time Artest has bounced around the NBA slowly becoming less and less psychotic and less awesome. Instead of bumping people and “punking bitches” left and right, he turned more to making rap music and bizarre post game interviews. All the fans that used to love to hate this guy have started falling in love with him, which devastates me. I loved the psycho asshole that was all about messin people up and getting in players heads. Yet I cant argue with an NBA championship which he won this season with the Lakers. But I like seeing bench clearing brawls rather than a basketball game.. so it might just be me.
So in the evolution of Ron Artest I’ve seen a borderline psychotic become a beloved sports figure even to the point where he was invited to play in a kids coed dodgeball game. Last week he played a game of dodgeball in the Melrose “A” Mazing League. More than not go crazy and punch a 12 year old in the face, he threw like girl and was knocked out of the game by a scrawny white kid in black tights. My god what has happened to my beloved crazy man? Maybe one day he will revert to what made me love him.. an uncontrollable ragemachine, wrapped up in a ball of crazy.
