Tuesday, January 15th, 2013 at 9:40 am  |  133 responses

Dwyane Wade Gets a Utah Jazz Fan Ejected (VIDEO)

Peace!

An obnoxious Utah Jazz fan sitting courtside last night was shown the door late in the third quarter, as Dwyane Wade helpfully pointed out the exit for him. Following the Jazz win, Miami Heat superstar LeBron James called the fans in Utah “amazing”. Per the Deseret News: “It’s a great environment. It’s a great atmosphere,’ LeBron James said. ‘These fans are amazing, especially, of course for their team. They bring a lot of energy to the game. I thrive off that.’ [...] ‘The fans give them an extra boost of confidence. They get them excited. They’re always into the game,’ James continued on Jazz faithful. ‘They know the game of basketball, so much history as far as their organization. So they’re great.’ Miami star guard Dwyane Wade, whose 24-11 team has gone 5-5 and has gone 1-2 on a six-game road trip, echoed those sentiments. This year, the 20-19 Jazz, winners of five of seven, are 11-4 at home. ‘They’re very competitive here and they bring out the best in other teams. We enjoy every time we come here,’ Wade said. ‘It’s a tough place to play. It’s a tough place to breathe, first of all. Once you get over that, then you’ve gotta play the game. It’s always tough, but it’s always enjoyable,” he added. “This is one place that if you walk out of here with a win, you feel very, very good about yourself.’”

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  • rs

    Wade is not a Superstar anymore. He doesn’t threat the fans and players like one.

  • roscoe

    of course, the only guy with a drink in his hand in UTAH gets ejected.

  • ByAnyMeansNecessary

    I like Wade showing him the way out. Fans have to know their place. Show respect to the players. Fans at games say a lot of things because they know that (besides those 2004 Pacers), players can’t get to them and deal with them the way some of them need to be dealt with. Now Wade should get his game together along with his team and start winning some road games before the All-Star Break.

  • K_HOLIDAY

    Wonder what happened… thought slam would have a recap of the events leading to the ejection… guess not

  • ROY

    Can’t win? get a fan ejected. C’mon, I’ve seen the fans way more rowdy and aggressive at the American airlines stadium, taunting players. I don’t see wade assisting security there.

  • Blap

    The guy looks like a first class douchebag.

  • RayJr

    Well I guess daddy isn’t going to let him use those front row seats anymore huh?

  • http://twitter.com/LuisBrownish Luis Moreno

    Exactly what I was thinking.

  • http://twitter.com/Jzakoni Sanchez

    that outfit man… LOL.. fashions crazy

  • http://twitter.com/Jzakoni Sanchez

    gotta agree on the attitude

  • Hugo Silva

    Good thing Ron Artest wasnt there.

  • bustios

    wade is the dirtiest player in the league and just an all around b****. I’m not one for being rude, which I’m sure this guy was, but for the price of those tickets, he should be allowed to say whatever he wants. and for the people saying he looks like a douche, I agree, but dwyane wade dresses just like that guy

  • bike

    If the guy was being a jerk, he deserved the ejection. But Wade should not have gotten involved no matter what the guy was saying or doing. Players should never get into any altercation with a fan.

  • Seth

    Paying more for a ticket does not make you exempt from the rules. You can’t do whatever you want.

  • 23

    Are you really going clint Eastwood with that empty chair joke!???

  • ByAnyMeansNecessary

    Very easy to say that when you don’t know what the man was saying to Wade. I’d flip it. Fans should make sure they don’t say anything disrespectful to players. They’re men too.

  • ByAnyMeansNecessary

    Thank you.

  • http://twitter.com/LuisBrownish Luis Moreno

    wade would pull it off tho!

  • bike

    Agree that fans shouldn’t be disrespectful. But some of them are, and when they are, it’s up to security to discipline them accordingly. Not the players.

  • RunNGun

    No one seems to know the reason why the fan was ejected. Gabrielle Union and Honey Nut Cheerios?

  • RunNGun

    Wait… so you’re saying it’s not okay to heckle players then? -___- I can understand if it was death threats and that sort, but hecklers are there for a reason. Man up or call the wham-bulance, i say.

  • Kevin

    Dude asked D-Wade if he took his herpes meds and D-Wade snitched on him

  • initbruv

    That was the actual reason for his ejection. He didn’t say anything, Wade was just pointing out that his douchebaggery was overwhelming and security agreed.

  • Kevin

    Gabrielle Union taste like Cocoa Puffs bruh

  • ByAnyMeansNecessary

    Players can say whatever they want to these people because there’s no difference between them and the fans other than the fact that one of them is playing and the other is not. Players, like other regular people, have different personalities. Some guys can and will ignore what’s said to them, some won’t. There’s no problem with either approach.

  • ByAnyMeansNecessary

    Wade may be the dirtiest star player in the league. But he’s not the dirtiest player in the league. World Peace elbowed James Harden and concussed him last season. On purpose. That was much more vicious than Wade accidentally breaking Kobe’s nose in the All-Star Game. There are plenty of guys who are dirtier than Wade is.

  • T-Money

    never understood why fans feel entitled to say whatever they want to athletes. you pay to see the show, that’s all you get with your ticket.

  • sickboy11

    For the price of that ticket, that guy gets to say whatever he wants to that overpaid spoiled entitled selfish dirty S.O.B.
    Give me a break. Continue pandering to these guys…ugh.

    They need to toughen up and stop whining about words. For what he makes a year, he can be insulted for 48 minutes, and do it with a smile. Wanna shut the guy up? Beat his team in fashion.

  • sickboy11

    That was an elbow. Elbow’s are mostly incidental from hard play…
    Check out D-Wade’s flying kick to Ramone Sessions’s groin.Or him shoving Darren Collison. Or pulling Rajon Rondo to the ground…or many many other infamous plays where Wade TRIES to hurt and injure people.

    Wade is THE dirtiest player in the game who gets away with it because he is one of Stern’s golden boys.

  • sickboy11

    Wait wait…So a player can do whatever he wants, but a fan has to keep quiet? Really? Can you get on their jock a little more?
    It’s people like you that contribute to the sad state of the NBA and their annoying, whining, spoiled entitled “stars”.
    Of course, you are a guy that thinks violence is okay and “cool”…”Deal with them the way some of them need to be dealt with”, okay Dirty Harry….
    They’re Basketball players. You shut fans up by destroying their team on the court in the game.

    These guys don’t get heckled anywhere near what they used to be.

  • Luis

    Wade is not star anymore as used to be, he is going thru some personal problem and this incident showed this. Players never, ever would get involved or persuaded by fans. Except if happens violence. Wade was wrong and security wrong at all.

  • ByAnyMeansNecessary

    When have you seen a superstar player, star player, or any player at all walk up to a fan randomly and start talking trash? I’ll wait…

  • ByAnyMeansNecessary

    Heckling is one thing but fans can’t just say whatever they want and players shouldn’t be expected to just let everything ride. It’s not about “manning up” because saying wild, disrespectful things to players while you know that security will prevent any altercation is a pretty cowardly thing to do. A fan in Boston poured a beer on LeBron’s head after he destroyed the Celtics in Game 6 of the ECF last season. So if he hadn’t have kept walking and he decided to approach that fan, he would be in the wrong? That’s incredibly stupid.

  • ByAnyMeansNecessary

    You think that elbow was incidental? Did you see it? What was incidental was Kobe’s nose breaking. The only way the two situations I brought up would be similar would be if Wade had deliberately thrown his elbow at Kobe’s nose in the way that World Peace threw his elbow at James Harden’s head area causing a concussion. Wade swung his arms down hard on Kobe’s arms and the ball and came in contact with his nose first. Come on, dude. Wade is the dirtiest star player, there’s really no argument that can be made against that. His dirty plays are shown more because of his star status. Pretty simple.

  • bike

    The difference between a player and a fan is a player is getting paid to play a game that a fan is paying to see. If a player gets into a verbal altercation with a fan, the likelihood of the situation becoming more serious goes up. If the situation escalates to the point where a player takes a swing at a fan, who do you think the nba is going after?

  • ByAnyMeansNecessary

    Also, it’s pretty easy to make statements such as “Man up” when you’re not the one who’s in that situation. I saw that same comment on the Melo/KG post here. So easy to tell guys how to behave when you’ll never be in their shoes.

  • sickboy11

    What does that matter?
    Oh wait, it doesn’t. These guys are only who they are because of the fans. They can man up and deal with trash talk and heckling. Without fans, they wouldn’t lead the lives they do, have what they have…they’d be skilled at a GAME…and beyond that, nada. We allow them to play a game for a living and become immensely wealthy and famous for it. They live their lives in public is if they grasp that image, but no matter what…they owe it all to FANS. All the hard work and dedication to the game doesn’t amount to squat without the fans. They can man-up a bit and play the game. People like you have allowed them to become the entitled, self-important babies they’ve become.

  • sickboy11

    Thinking being a “man” or “manning up” has anything to do with fighting or going after people physically is an incredibly stupid way of thinking.

  • sickboy11

    Nope. Dirtiest player and getting worse thanks to lack of punishment and his favored status with the league. He’s the definition of “spoiled” and “entitled”…he thinks he is untouchable. He intentionally tries to hurt people.

  • sickboy11

    No you can’t do whatever you want….but saying what you want isn’t exactly asking for much.

  • https://twitter.com/jasontichenor Mr. Wet

    Why doesn’t everone keep misspelling Kevin Garnett.

  • bike

    It may be stupid, but what do you think the nba would have done if he went after the fan?

  • ByAnyMeansNecessary

    lol Some fans overestimate their importance or value to the players. Yes, you pay money for stuff. That’s great. But these guys are who they are because of the talent they have (that fans didn’t give them) and their work ethic (which fans also didn’t give them). Don’t get it twisted. They have what they have because of the work they do and how good or great they are at playing the game. The most important part of the NBA is the players. There would be no fans without the players, not the other way around. You don’t allow them to do squat. You sit back, watch and admire their games. That’s it. Educate yourself because it’s clear you think too much of your place. Know your place. It’s definitely not more important than the players. Michael Jordan was who he was because of talent, skill and hard work. Not because of any fan. Everything that he generated off the court was because of the work he put in on the court. Which came after he put in work during the offseason. You watch the NBA because of the players. The players don’t watch you. Smarten up.

  • ByAnyMeansNecessary

    Being man means standing up for yourself when you feel like it. It’s not up to you or anyone else to decide when it’s right or wrong for any of these guys to decide not to ignore a fan who has said something that’s out of bounds.

  • ByAnyMeansNecessary

    Can’t argue with ignorance. Think what you want. Watch a game or two played by a team other than the Heat. You’ll see some guys who are a lot dirtier than Wade is.

  • initbruv

    “There would be no fans without the players, not the other way around.” Um, without the fans they would just be a bunch of dudes playing basketball at the park so let’s not get carried away. That said, people need to learn to compose themselves in public. Wade is no spring chicken, he’s been around. My guess is the dude deserved to get kicked out. And rich guys in white pants can generally go f*ck themselves.

  • ByAnyMeansNecessary

    How can fans exist without having a player or team that they can root for and watch? Who came first, Michael Jordan or his fans? LeBron or his fans? Kobe or his fans? You can’t have Kobe fans without Kobe, LeBron fans without LeBron or Jordan fans without Jordan. Kobe, Jordan, LeBron and every other player were good before they had 1 fan. Fans need to understand their role. That’s why dude got ejected because he thought that he was in a position to come at Wade as if they were equal participants in last night’s game. No, Wade is playing, fans are watching. Some here are out of touch with reality if they think that they somehow play a major part in the lives of these guys. Look at the two lockouts in 99 and last season. Fans were angry and bored. Why? Because they couldn’t watch their favorite teams/players play.

  • initbruv

    Yes, it is a mutually beneficial thing. Without the fans, players wouldn’t be pros (because they wouldn’t get paid). Without players there would be no basketball, obviously. Nobody disagrees with that. I’m just saying you’re overstating your case. When you say fans need to understand their role…I mean, I’m pretty sure that their role is to support their team and to make it a pain in the a** for the other team to be in their home. That’s true in all sports at all times. That’s not to say that there isn’t a line that can be crossed. But that is indeed their role at a game. They aren’t supposed to sit politely like it’s a symphony.

  • ByAnyMeansNecessary

    Then the players should also be able to say what they want.

  • ByAnyMeansNecessary

    Mostly agree but if the fans can say whatever they want to players, then the players can also say whatever they want to the fans in response. If there’s nothing wrong with fans saying anything they like to players for whatever reason, then there’s also nothing wrong with players not only trying to destroy the opposing team on the floor but also saying whatever they please to the fans who are talking to them during the game. Only fair. I’m glad you used the phrase “mutually beneficial thing” because that’s exactly what it is. But there are fans who actually talk down on the players as if they would be nothing without fans. That’s just not true. When I say fans should understand their role, I simply mean that they shouldn’t overestimate their importance. You’ll find some who talk as if they actually made these guys who they are.

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