Antonio Davis rushes into stands

[Multiple Miggs]

Godammit, what a piss-poor attempt at a riot. :icon_mad:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10916711/

Video (http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?f=00&g=e986ab35-8dd1-40d7-8470-ce1385c39926&t=m5&p=Source_NBC%20Sports)

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[RobeSoup&Tears]

I understand that this could've gotten outta hand a la Pistons / Pacers but I would've done the exact same thing if it involved MY wife.

Apparently this was going on for a while during the game...WHERE WAS CHICAGO BULLS SECURITY?!?!

[Budyzir]

WHERE WAS CHICAGO BULLS SECURITY?!?!

EXACTLY !!!!

I dont blame Davis a bit, if it had been me, I would have done the same exact thing, fuck the NBA.

[B54]

Wow. I am really impressed that Davis kept his cool like that and did not physically assault the man, if I had been in the same situation, I would have punched the guy for sure. If your gonna drink, you seriously need to control your alcohol so you do not do something stupid and start things with a NBA athlete. I sure you saw what happened last year, right? You do not want to fight those guys.

[funnybonez]

Blame the arena security. Davis got to the situation faster than the security. He should of slug him!

[askewcore]

To be fair to the secuirty guys, a few minutes before that Mo Taylor and Chris Duhon both got ejected so a bunch of security guys were escorting them back. That being said, a player should never be able to leap over the scorers table and run 10 rows up. You gotta respect the guy trying to defend his family though, that's gotta take precedent over the game....even if it was in OT.

He got suspended for five games w/o pay by the way.

[Kid Brock]

Watch the latest tape of it and listen to the witness accounts around them.

There was a United Center employee handling it, one I might add that was called down by the fan in question because Mrs. Davis was the one standing and yelling and poking the guy.

Now should you heckle a opposing wife? Maybe not, but most around there say she was the one who was the rabid fan everytime the Knicks did something.

[askewcore]

I'll bet she was. Patrice nailed it today. That's probably exactly what happened. But I can still understand AD's reaction.

[Multiple Miggs]

If I was a player I'd tell my family members to sit up in one of the suites or just stay the fuck home. One less distraction from the game.

[abudabit]

Holy shit listen to this:

CHICAGO - The fan accused of harassing the wife of
New York Knicks forward Antonio Davis will drop threats of a lawsuit if the couple says it's sorry, the man's attorney said Friday. No way, the Davises said.
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"I'm not apologizing to anybody for anything," Antonio Davis said on a conference call. "I don't think that my wife did anything wrong, I don't think that I did anything wrong."

Kendra Davis said in an interview with WSCR-AM in Chicago on Friday, "I was just trying to tell the guy to chill out."

Antonio Davis was suspended five games by the NBA on Thursday, a day after he went into the stands during a game at the United Center in Chicago to confront 22-year-old Michael Axelrod.

Attorney Jay Paul Deratany planned to send a letter to the couple on Friday, also asking the Davises to make a donation to a charity that tries to prevent violence against women and children. Deratany e-mailed a copy of the letter to The Associated Press.

"Why would I donate some money in his behalf?" said Davis, already active with various community charities.

Kendra Davis said, "I'll apologize to Michael Axelrod when he apologizes to my son and to me. We can apologize to each other, but there's no way on earth I would apologize."

Antonio Davis' statement after the game said the man he thought was threatening his wife was drunk and had touched her. Axelrod said all he had was a glass of wine at dinner, and that he did nothing wrong.

Axelrod is asking Davis — president of the NBA players' association — to take back his comments. Deratany said several witnesses and videotapes of the event back up his client's claims.

Deratany had said he would give the Davises about a week to respond.

"Both of us respect the game and the point was to send a message not to harass fans — either physically or by later comments that disparage their character," Deratany said. "If that's accomplished, then it's time to move on. It's never been about money."

On Thursday, Deratany said he planned to sue Davis and his wife for more than $1 million, alleging battery by Kendra Davis and slander by her husband.

On Friday, Deratany said the $1 million figure was inflated, but declined to say how much his client would seek.

Antonio Davis questioned the need for the lawsuit, pointing out that he never mentioned any fan by name. He said the incident started because the fan sitting behind his wife was using offensive language around their son, and she asked him to stop.

"If he brings a lawsuit against me I have to defend myself, but I just don't understand what he's going to say," Davis said. "I never mentioned his name. I just said one of the gentlemen. So I just don't understand what the lawsuit is all about."

Davis said he briefly considered legal action against a second fan who was grabbing his wife, but decided against it.

"I felt like, bottom line is I really just want all of this to go away," he said. "It was an unfortunate situation, I got penalized for it."

Axelrod's father, David, is a prominent Democratic political consultant in Chicago who has worked with Sens. Barack Obama and
Hillary Clinton and Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Michael Axelrod said Kendra Davis placed her hands on his face, and he motioned for security. But Kendra Davis said Axelrod wasn't threatened.

"I never said that Michael Axelrod touched me, so why he came up with this whole story about me scratching him ..." she said in the radio interview.

Asked if she felt threatened, she responded, "The second guy, absolutely I did."

"When I was talking to Axelrod, he called me a condescending name, followed by an explicit word," Kendra Davis said. "I said, 'How dare you talk to me like that.'"

Kendra Davis said she "probably should have" called for security, but, "I think I taught my kids that you stand up for yourself."

[al885]

this is why they cage the animals at the zoo

[FreeTheCricket]

You know what? This whole fucking thing sounds like 2 fucking idiots who don't know how to act in public. I bet Mrs. Davis started this bullshit by acting like a typical black woman, being all loud and "in yo face". I also think that Axelrod probably was being a drunk asshole and probably did deserve to be told to shut up. Now the fucking whining and complaining has started. "He said a bad word", "she scratched me, I'm hurt". Grow the fuck up, both of you. I don't blame Davis at all for going into the stands, because by the time he realized what was going on, there were a couple big white guys around his wife and child. I would have done the same thing, but you can bet that once I got home I would have some very serious questions for my wife.

Either way, this sounds like a case of 2 immature fuckheads pointing fingers at each other like kindergartners and saying "he did it", "no, she did it".

[YUCK FOU]

i agree now they all are pointing fingers and dude has lawyered up etc...it is going to get to the point where the owners or players are gonna have to put their families away from those in the stands.