re: Fan ejected for passing ball to ref in Lakers-Kings game

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Bachelors:Electrical Engineering
Masters:Engineering Management
MBA
PE

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Damn, sounds like you spent a lot of money and didnt learn shite.

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And Im 100X more athletic than you also.

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No you arent. You are whining about a ball being thrown too hard. Dont try to call yourself an athlete.

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Tell us why.

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Because as an athlete you do what’s easiest to make the play a success. It’s called throwing a catchable ball/pass. If a receiver is 5 yards away, I’m not about to throw the ball 100 mph to the guy. A simple bounce pass or a pass with some arc on it would do. You don’t do a chess pass as hard as you can to a woman in the situation.

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But he passed the ball a bit hard in close distance while the ref wasn't even ready. I don't have an opinion on whether or not it was right for him to be ejected, but I can understand why it happened.

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At least one person on this site can use their brain.

Some of the posts in this thread are a great representation of what is going on in this country right now.

The endless amounts of “are you okay” from everyone was fricking pathetic. Like that just traumatized her. NBA is the softest league in the world.

To be fair, this may be the most exciting moment of the NBA regular season

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The dude had no reason to do that bullshite. But it’s pretty obvious why you people are defending it. A simple bounce pass would suffice. No reason to throw a pass like that to a woman. Like I said unless the dude has never played the sport before would be the only reason I would excuse that.

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You know what’s funny and sad at the same time?

You probably believe you’re being a supportive ally of women in general but in reality, you’re being patronizing.

She has played this sport, dude. Likely at a higher level of proficiency than you or I ever did. Many refs have, so yes, I’d expect anyone who’s job it is to be on an NBA court during live play to not get harmed by a basketball thrown his or her way.

I'm absolutely shocked people are giving this guy even the slightest grief

She's a ref in an NBA game, bodies and basketball flying around is part of the deal, some old dude flings the ball at her, does no damage, is far less exposure than she has on any given play - how about a chuckle and a "take it easy killer"?

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. If the players wouldn't have been bitches, that fan would have got to watch the rest of the game like he should have.

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Yep. Reminds me of Moises Alou/Bartman.

Why are so many in here acting like this was just a normal pass in that situation? That would be too hard of a pass from one NBA player to another on the court from that distance, much less from a fan to a ref between plays.

Everybody on the court saw immediately how ridiculous it was. If anybody threw the ball back at you like that you’d be like wtf is your problem. Luckily she got a hand up to swat at it because if not it would have hit her and look even worse.