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Lakers fan base going off the deep end 

Post#1 » by dockingsched » Fri Nov 9, 2012 1:17 am

Everyone remembers last yr when lakers fans started harassing steve blake and his wife, kristen blake, on twitter. people started throwing out serious threats:

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/stor ... ts-twitter


Last night, in an isolated incident, some lakers fans in utah went straight pepper spray on some utah fans after the lakers lost.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/lakersnow ... vrit=53297

...At some point during the Lakers' 95-86 loss to the Jazz, two Lakers fans were thrown out of the game after a confrontation developed from "trash talking" with a pair of Jazz fans.

Outside of the arena, the ejected fans later found their same adversaries and the argument continued.

"At that point, one of the Lakers fans pulled out a pepper spray fogger and let loose with it," according to the Tribune....



Also last night, fans again took to twitter and started harassing and threatening Mike Brown's son:

http://sulia.com/channel/la-lakers/f/86 ... ce=twitter

Mike Brown's reaction to a reporter asking him about his son, Elijah, being attacked on Twitter was surprising ...It was surprising because he hadn't heard about it.

"That’s news to me," Brown said after Thursday's practice. "I will alert Lakers security."

Brown's son (@elijah_brown_4 on Twitter) received support by two other family members of Lakers players on Wednesday night -- Steve Blake's wife, Kristen Blake and Metta World Peace's brother, Daniel Artest.

From @kristenblake2: "Leave Mike Brown's son alone. What's wrong with u people?! Stop attacking FAMILIES! How would you feel if YOUR family was treated like that?"

From @TheRealDMArtest: "Leave my homie @elijah_brown_4 alone tho. Says a lot about u attacking a kid online over a damn game"

Elijah summed it up on Twitter by writing: "Coaches fault when they lose but players glory when they win.. I'm not trippin well be straight!"

Brown said he usually has someone monitor his son's activity on Twitter because he doesn't understand the social media platform.

What he does clearly understand is that threats to someone's family should have no part in professional sports.

"That’s the tough part about this business," Brown said. "To go after somebody’s family or something like that is in my opinion is just ridiculous. It’s stupid, it’s crazy, it’s whatever you want to call it. They have nothing to do with what’s going on right now. You think that those people have kids and if they weren’t having success at their work or something like that, would they want somebody saying something or doing something to their kids? I disagree with peoples’ thought process on that if they’re involved in that type of stuff."

Brown also alluded to the incident involving Blake during the playoffs last year (http://espn.go.com/los...).

"People change with the wind at times," Brown said. "That’s just human nature. When things are good, everybody loves you and when things aren’t good, people tend not to love you and they show that in different ways. So, it’s part of life. But in terms of the threats and stuff like that, if there are threats, that’s something that I take serious and we’re going to take serious because it shouldn’t happen. It shouldn’t happen to Steve Blake, it shouldn’t happen to Dwight. It shouldn’t happen to my kids or anything like that. It’s ridiculous."



:nonono: :nonono:

people need to chill out.
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Post#2 » by semi-sentient » Fri Nov 9, 2012 1:25 am

Brown said he usually has someone monitor his son's activity on Twitter because he doesn't understand the social media platform.


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Post#3 » by Wreckus13 » Fri Nov 9, 2012 1:27 am

Oh god that's horrible. What wrong with these people? Harassing his son? That's low.
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Post#4 » by Father Time » Fri Nov 9, 2012 1:30 am

With the most fans come the most lunatics apparently. Not even lunatics, just a lot of punks.
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Post#5 » by GAME TIME » Fri Nov 9, 2012 2:22 am

some Laker fans are weak minded.

Judge so quickly and easily at every little thing, shows how much they have control of their own mind.

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Post#6 » by Slava » Fri Nov 9, 2012 2:36 am

I swear some of these idiots would be like 130 lbs when they step away from their keyboards. Boo the man or do what you want but why bother his family?
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Post#7 » by deNIEd » Fri Nov 9, 2012 3:13 am

SlavaMedvedenko wrote:I swear some of these idiots would be like 130 lbs when they step away from their keyboards. Boo the man or do what you want but why bother his family?


Cause the 130 lb idiot would get his ass kicked by Mike Brown, so they went after the safest thing?
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Post#8 » by hermes » Fri Nov 9, 2012 3:23 am

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Post#9 » by tysonironmike » Fri Nov 9, 2012 3:25 am

Mike Brown "Me no understand twitter"

Isn't his son 17 or 18? As if MB has someone monitor his adult son's twitter. SMH
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Post#10 » by LateRoundFlyer » Fri Nov 9, 2012 5:29 am

In before some idiot seriously suggests this as the perfect way to get Brown to resign.
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Post#11 » by ennui » Fri Nov 9, 2012 5:36 am

These people need some perspective. It's just sports.
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Post#12 » by TyCobb » Fri Nov 9, 2012 6:01 am

Tasp wrote:These people need some perspective. It's just sports.


Blasphemy.


Slava got it right. This new troll generation goes too far sometimes.
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Post#13 » by MistyMountain20 » Fri Nov 9, 2012 6:01 am

Man Mike is so out of touch, doesn't even know about Twitter... SMH

All kidding aside, it's a game at the end of the day, people take this stuff too seriously.
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Post#14 » by Imadogg » Fri Nov 9, 2012 9:04 am

SlavaMedvedenko wrote:I swear some of these idiots would be like 130 lbs when they step away from their keyboards. Boo the man or do what you want but why bother his family?

Wtf man my weight doesn't change depending on my relation to the keyboard
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Post#15 » by Wavy Q » Fri Nov 9, 2012 11:13 am

Yeah, Imadogg is always 100 lbs
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Post#16 » by leeprettyp » Fri Nov 9, 2012 12:06 pm

Smh this is terrible!!! Why i hate bandwagon fans these are the type of isolated situations you get when their around. While I'm not a fan of coach Brown myself nobodies family should ever be threatened over the game of basketball smh. Just flat out disrespectful and makes us REAL Laker fans win or lose look bad smh!!
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Post#17 » by Dr Aki » Fri Nov 9, 2012 12:36 pm

this getting outta hand.

sure, ask for the coach's head (figuratively), but to go after his family?

lowest common denominator stuff there
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Post#18 » by Run-MKE 311 » Fri Nov 9, 2012 3:19 pm

Yikes, keep it classy. That is some pretty low grade stuff.

Last I checked the Lakers have played only 5 games, I shudder to imagine what this train wreck would look like if they end up missing the playoffs! They wont of course, but I cannot believe how carried away some people become.

If it makes you so cal folks feel any better, we deal with the same garbage here as it pertains to the Packers. All of the good-time-Charlie Packer fans get loaded and do all sorts of stupid crap. True fans of any team are able to chill and keep things in perspective, especially after just 5 games.
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Post#19 » by LAKESHOW » Fri Nov 9, 2012 3:47 pm

comes with the territory. I dont know, but whenever folks get an anonymous opportunity . . . they go bonkers! Like some inflated, super-ego indiviual crops up, and speak without fear or repurcussions or blame. Just say sh** without even thinking. odd . . . this generation
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Post#20 » by The Skyhook » Fri Nov 9, 2012 4:08 pm

semi-sentient wrote:
Brown said he usually has someone monitor his son's activity on Twitter because he doesn't understand the social media platform.


:lol:

Does this guy understand anything?

Seriously though I know people love their sports but this is getting out of hand.

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