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Ron Artest’s Table-Leg Murder Account Verified By C.Y. Ellis
05.8.2009 - Updated on 05.8.2009
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Following a game that was unusually rough and rugged even for a playoff contest, the ejected, defeated Ron Artest could be forgiven for rambling a little in the postgame interview. Instead, he opened by detailing an event which many immediately dismissed as a work of fiction. Check out the clip below and tell me your first instinct wasn’t to wave the account off as nothing but a tall tale.
Well, it turns out that Ron-Ron spoke not a word of a lie. This story from the New York Times of Monday, April 15, 1991 attests to the fact that a young man was indeed killed with a table leg in Queens during a heated game.
A 19-year-old basketball player from Queens was fatally stabbed with a broken-off table leg today after a fight broke out during a basketball tournament, the police said.
The player, Lloyd Newton, was stabbed in the back with a leg from the scorer’s table at the championship game of a Y.M.C.A.-sponsored tournament at the Niagara Falls Boys and Girls Club, the police in Niagara Falls said.
"An argument ensued about the score," Capt. Louis Curcione said, adding that one of the teams "thought they were getting gypped."
"A fight broke out between the players and about 40 fans in the stands," he said. "In the course of the fight, one person was stabbed in the back."
Ugh. Here’s one case in which I really wished the player was lying. |
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Posted by
40inchleaper
on 05.8.2009 | honestly since the Pistons-Pacers brawl, everytime Ron plays, i feel kind of skeptic if he’ll play nice. . | Posted by
CJ
on 05.8.2009 | He has a bad rep because he went into the stands and punched a fan! Short temper or no, you do something stupid like that they’re gonna watch your a-------like a hawk and you HAVE to be twice as careful as the rest of the guys. . | Posted by
Eric Zemmour
on 05.8.2009 | you don’t remember the story in detroit ? since this day he had a bad reputation around the league ! who say it was a threat to kobe ? Artest is in the same situation that Sprewell after his fight with Carlessimo, he need to take his team to the final like Spree did with the Knicks and after maybe people will forget the story around this player ! . | Posted by
on 05.8.2009 | listen to the interview. ron artest told that story to illustrate the environment he grew up in. it was not a threat to kobe. it was not bragging. why would ron artest have a bad reputation? because he has a short temper? because he grew up in a rough environment?take a look around the league, apparently half of the players must have bad reputations they will never escape. . | Posted by
Eric Zemmour
on 05.8.2009 | Artest is a true streetball player, the best defender in the league, Rockets are in semi final with him and not with T-mac, he’s amazing but has a bad reputation whatever he do ! . |
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