I guess the hip hop culture of the NBA blew up in a lot of faces. It's about time people wised up to the thuggery that passes for basketball these days.
Baseball has no hip-hop culture, the number of black professional baseball players is in rapid decline, yet baseball has far more all-out brawls and has had more incidents of players getting in brawls with fans, throwing chairs at fans, or getting in brawls with security guards.
But, doesn't seem to bother people much if the perps aren't "street rap ghetto thugs." Catcher Chad Kreuter went into the stands to brawl with fans (who had stolen his cap) at Wrigley Field a few years ago and was suspended for 8 games. I did a search on FR to see if the incident was mentioned and couldn't turn anything up.
The vicious Todd Bertuzzi hit in Hockey, as an act of vile violence, alone, was about 100 times worse than every single thing combinedthat happened at that Pistons game. Is he from the ghetto rap culture?