It is only a matter of time before we have another Malice in the Palace.
Fans have been pushing their luck with players, and players hate the fans and media for the most part. Nurkic will get fine and maybe sued if the fan is softer than charmin.
With that being said, the fan would have been within his right to put his hands on Nurkic after Nurkic put his hands on his property.
At that point, you can defend yourself.
CBS Sports has the details.
Early on Sunday afternoon, the Indiana Pacers secured an easy win over the Portland Trail Blazers, 129-98. With the Pacers already eliminated from playoff contention, and the Blazers tanking to try and get there themselves, there wasn’t much to discuss from this one.
That is, until a video surfaced of a postgame incident involving Trail Blazers big man Jusuf Nurkic — currently sidelined due to plantar fasciitis — and a Pacers fan. Following the final buzzer, Nurkic made his way over to a group of fans sitting courtside. He stared one of them down, grabbed the fans’ phone and tossed it away. Nurkic then walked off without saying anything.
It’s not clear what the fan said or did to upset Nurkic, and because the big man is out injured he did not address the media. Whatever it was must have crossed a line, however, because it’s hard to imagine a player snatching a fans’ phone over a basic insult or taunt.
A man claiming to be the security guard says the fan had been calling the Nurkic trash for the majority of the 4th quarter, and that is what set him off.
If that is accurate, the fault goes to Nurkic, not the fan. If he said something a little stronger, then we could reassess the situation.
Flip the pages for the video and some of the Twitter reactions.
