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http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/sports/ ... or-battery

Houston Rockets guard Kyle Lowry has been charged with one count of misdemeanor battery by the Clark County District Attorney's office in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Las Vegas Justice Court issued a summons for Lowry to appear before it on Feb 2.

If convicted, Lowry faces up to six months in the Clark County Detention Center and/or a fine of not more than $1,000.

hot diggity daam this is unexpected. he always seems calm as hell on the court. i dont think i've ever seen him act out against the other team.

I don't know the last few games he's seemed so intense at the end of games, it's looked like he's really angry to me.

Of course your right I've never seen him get in someone's face after a hard foul or anything

I'm trying to be unbiased about this because I HATE when people are homer apologists(I.e. people that try to justify bynums foul or any Kobe/lebron apologists), BUTTT I find my mind trying to justify his actions and making the women he threw the ball at to be the bad guy. Like that it probably wasn't as bad as she says and that she's doing this so next she can sue him for easy money...

I'm a hypocrite:/

I need to see a pic of the female ref in question to decide if she deserved it or not.

Could be someone trying to get paid.

battery for throwing a basketball at a ref .. yea right.

how many players threw a basketball to another player intentionally ? They must all get batterys too? lol

Throwing a ball at someone does NOT constitute battery in any kind of reality-backed law.

However, we have our current judicial system, so if he wasn't a professional athlete he'd be screwed. As is, he'll just be out a few bucks and back in business with a "record".

Still, douchebag thing to do though...

Very douche bag thing to do...

but can we please change the damn title! Almost gave me a heart attack.

Z3snap wrote:Very douche bag thing to do...

but can we please change the damn title! Almost gave me a heart attack.

lol i changed it

I guess. I've seen it done so many times that it doesn't really strike me as much of a big deal....

Hell, I've lost my cool playing ball, and I'm an extremely easygoing guy.

There's limits and there's limits, but it's not like he did this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usNroVi2zRE
Or even this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-NDZGtU7So

She effectively lost at dodgeball. Little kids do it all the time. Not saying it was right that he did it, just that it's 10,000% not lawsuit worthy.

Metta world peace did something worst , he jumped over the front row of seats last night. and hit an old lady on the chin yesterday

Moofs,

Is that why he didn't play last night?

Imo, the ideal outcome was for his club to fine him 25-100k for the bad press - much like I would expect my employer to fire me for managing to get on the evening news with a similar event - and for The Law to not be involved. No game == fine (I believe a fairly hefty one at that), so that's covered.

Like I said, he wasn't right, but The Law can't not be involved in much of anything, these days... (pry cause they're so damn broke.) I just like it when people can solve things themselves without requiring government... call me wacky

moofs wrote:Imo, the ideal outcome was for his club to fine him 25-100k for the bad press - much like I would expect my employer to fire me for managing to get on the evening news with a similar event - and for The Law to not be involved. No game == fine (I believe a fairly hefty one at that), so that's covered.

Like I said, he wasn't right, but The Law can't not be involved in much of anything, these days... (pry cause they're so damn broke.) I just like it when people can solve things themselves without requiring government... call me wacky

Lowry wasn't a Rockets employee at the time of the incident because of the lockout

A local Ron Paul precinct captain once said to me that "The decline of western civilization began when dueling was outlawed."

texasholdem wrote:Lowry wasn't a Rockets employee at the time of the incident because of the lockout

That might throw a wrench in it (though I think they got him anyway), but not necessarily. There's no statute of limitations for employee penalization that I'm aware of. Granted I've never worked in HR or legal.

spolgar wrote:A local Ron Paul precinct captain once said to me that "The decline of western civilization began when dueling was outlawed."

I actually would believe both that, and that high school violence began to increase when sanctioned boxing matches were abolished (other things as well, I'm sure). Outlawing things people want never works (alcohol/drugs, violence, television, etc) , only regulation can - and that should probably be done at the state level, so as to avoid being overly difficult to navigate.

Minimalism is great. It just never has immediately profitable results.