Thursday, July 26th, 2012 at 10:05 am  |  103 responses

Nate Robinson Escaped Gunfire at Rucker Park Unhurt


Golden State Warriors point guard Nate Robinson was much luckier than the five people who were shot last night, at the legendary Rucker Park in New York City. Reports the NY Daily News: “Gunfire erupted around 10 p.m. at the Holcombe Rucker Park court on Frederick Douglass Boulevard near W. 155th St. after a dispute during a game for the Entertainers Basketball Classic, witnesses said. ‘They started arguing, about a bad call or something like that,’ said Rodney Harris, 47. ‘The guy was standing no more than five feet away from me. He pulled a gun out of his pocket and shot once. He then shot one more time. Everyone started running. He was real close to me,’ Harris said. ‘I thought I got shot.’ Nate Robinson, a former point guard for the Knicks, was at the game but escaped unscathed, witnesses said. ‘He was watching the game,’ Harris said. ‘After the shooting, he was okay. He wasn’t hurt…he left like everyone else.’ The five shooting victims were taken to area hospitals and all expected to survive, police said. One other person also was injured in the incident. The shooter started running amongst the crowd but then walked calmly across the street toward the Fine Fare supermarket and fired a few more rounds, Harris said. ‘Then he just walked away. He didn’t even run. My friend, a basketball player, got shot in the ankle,’ he said. ‘It could have been worse.’”

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  • Jer dawG

    What a f’ed up thing to do! I hope the gunman gets Locked up! Glad nobody died!

  • Da Real

    That wack ass league finally got it poppin” … In the wrong way, haha.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Pm_5aIavU&feature=g-all-u Max

    Was he playing with a gun in his pocket?

  • biggieman

    God damn! Shooting up the court after a bad call… I’ll bet Birdie made him do it. That’s Tom Shepard, the man is like a ghost.

  • http://www.gil1906.com Pve_2

    Wait…this man was playing basketball with a loaded gun in his pocket/waistband?

  • MikeC.

    Damn. People need to learn how to take an L.

  • LA Huey

    Even in The Wire, they knew the courts were sacred ground…

  • Otero

    Lol @biggie Mozart was trippin again Kyle Lee Watson musta been killin last nite

  • MUBWAR

    what kind of civilized country still allows guns to circulate freely. the us has a serious problems with this. welcome to the 21st century and update your stupid constitution before another huge tragedy happens.

  • http://www.slaminline.com spit hot fiyah

    he must’ve been a spectator right? how do u play with heat in pocket?

  • http://cnbc.com JTaylor21

    guns don’t kill people, stupid people with guns do.

  • wayne-o

    this is why new york city basketball as a whole has died over the years. Their are WAY too many “crabs in the bucket”, from HS,AAU,prep,college you name it, the system/(some)coaches have hidden agendas which can hinder a student athletes progression BUT that’s only half the problem. In my opinion the biggest culprit here is the “hood”. i can account from personal experience how quickly your “hood”, or “peoples” can turn on you after a return home away from school or overseas….its as if before you leave everyone supports you but when you come back home they’re saying things like you’ve “changed” or forgot where you’ve come from….cant win

  • http://organizedsport.blogspot.com jesse

    @JTaylor21 that is the dumbest argument in regards to gun violence. think about how many less deaths we would have each year if guns weren’t so easily accessible. thankfully nobody was killed but this is still a perfect example. something that could have been merely an argument or at worst maybe a little fist fight turns into a shooting scene because of our bullshit gun laws and obsession. obviously a lot of gun owners are extremely law-abiding and responsible but if you legit think the us doesn’t need to do something about our gun problem i got nothing for you.

  • DABIGFUNDAMENTAL

    @J Taylor: Weird argument… Sure. But stupid people without gun are still less dangerous…
    Killer must have been confused when invited to a shoot around at Rucker.

  • Chuck

    What a culture. If there weren’t prisons can you imagine the homicide rate in the hood?

  • http://www.huwlhopkins.com #6marjon

    If the constitution said that each individual has a right to kill a chinese man if they come within 30 feet of you. would you still uphold that with pride?
    change the fucking law america. the constitution was written over 200 years ago, times have changed.

    “then walked calmly across the street toward the Fine Fare supermarket and fired a few more rounds”

    dude was crazy, but if you remove the opportunity for crazy people to buy guns, they wouldn’t have any to shoot people with.

  • Rik Smits Mullet

    cosign Mubwar
    And stop saying we need guns to protect ourselves from people with guns.

  • MUBWAR

    true J but when an imbalanced person like James Holmes is able to buy over 6000 rounds of bullets an ak47 and military used guns there is a serious issue. check the list for homicide, shooting and gun violence per 100000 people. the us is in the top 20 where 3rd world countries belong

  • Jerome

    Here comes Obama. How many times must this man visit places where guns are responsible for taking other peoples family … oh wait, Yellow Ribbon time!

  • SeanMagicJuan

    Jerome somehow injects an Obama angle to a Rucker Park shooting. Try harder.

  • http://www.fullc0urtpress.com KHoliday

    Somebody told him shoot the 3, so he tried. Nothing to see here!

  • http://cnbc.com JTaylor21

    James Holmes was imbalanced? the same clown that graduated with honors from Univ of Cali-Riverside and was accepted into a doctoral program at the Univ of Colo.
    Looks like the Fifth Element hairstyle and dazed look has fooled people into thinking that dude’s insane.

  • IGGI

    What will it take to change the gun laws??? I guess James Holmes killing 12 and injuring 59 was not enough, I wonder if he had killed everyone in the theater that would make the gun lover see things clear.

  • mas

    That is a good way to STOP flopping!!!

  • O

    I hate dudes that jump to pulling out guns. If you really dont like a dude, shoot the fair one. Go toe-to-toe like real men. But fools be scared of an ass whupping. SMH.

  • justin

    I’ve been all around this world more than 1 time and I can honestly say the “softest” dudes I have EVER met are guys from NY. Its like if you say anything that they remotely disagree with they get all loud and ready to fight, or in this case shoot a gun. Are you serious? Constantly having something to prove is childish and juvenile behavior. Grow up. Act like a man, a real man. Stop whining and crying and trying to be all loud. Get comfortable in your own skin, it is a beautiful thing…

  • Fat Lever

    JTaylor, didnt you just contradict yourself? you said stupid people with guns kill people, however you concede(or suggest) that Holmes is actually quite smart. Not really trying to get into a back and forth on this, but just wanted to point that out and see what you thought about your points and how you justify it.

  • http://www.slamonline.com L.E.

    The NRA and it’s lobbyists are way to powerful. Yo will not have a chance to change the gun laws. I think there have been countless shootings since Columbine and before and nothing has changed.
    The people are angry and sad for maybe two weeks and then everything is forgotten.
    Relly sad.

  • Rob2432

    If the law is changed then all the people who have guns legally and follow the law will have no defense aganced the criminals who have guns against the law, and if the law was changed what do you think all these criminals will just walk up to the police and Han them over freely??? How stupid are you really?

  • http://www.slamonline.com Nick Tha Quick

    Like L.E said, it’s almost impossible to change the current law. You can’t blame Obama for this. Look at what’s happening with the Healthcare Bill. He can try to change it all he wants — at the end of the day the opposition to the change is too powerful. It would take something extremely catastrophic to so many people and even then, it may not get anywhere.

  • Rustin

    Assholes. A bad call? The result? A gunfire. Welcome to America. Send them to Irak or another and illegal and stupid war.

  • http://slamonline.com LakeShow

    Really O? Most of us don’t mind the gun-pull-out-first guys. I think that’s a solid way to live…
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    I can’t believe this board has 90% ignoramuses posting on it.

  • hillbilly

    Have to agree with JTaylor21 on this one. Dude’s anything but insane. The orange hair/crazy eyes thing is clearly a put-on. I think he’s just another Generation YouTube AW who woke up one day and realized that the only way he’d ever get noticed was if he did something incredibly heinous, like shooting up a movie theater full of innocent people. He deserves nothing more than a very slow, painful death.

  • http://www.reverbnation.com/tray24 T-Ray

    Guns don’t kill people. Dangerous minorities do.

  • Riggs

    That’s why I hate playing over there at night, dudes act way too stupid. Co-sign O, nobody wanna fight with their hands any more.

  • MUBWAR

    Lakeshow is newt gingrich your dad? i like your (out of your azz stats) and how you think so high of yourself?

  • http://minusthebars.blogspot.com don

    Rucker Park needs better referees.

  • Rob2432

    How many people honestly think he obtained that gun though the legal channels?

  • Rob2432

    Take a way the legal guns what’s left?

  • bike

    You go someplace like Rucker in NYC at a large gathering, and you know there is the possibility of something violent happening. Accept the risk or stay away.

  • Mas

    We do not need new gun laws. We just need to enforce the already existing regulations. This is should not be a conversation about gun control. As soon as you go that route the Republicans and their NRA buddies will jump all over that smack you with the Second Ammendment in your face. Make the convo about violence and crime. Crime in the city has gone down simply by enforcing existing laws. The further West you travel in this country the more lax the enforcement becomes. Then you wonder why things at such a large scale occur in Colorado and such. Stop the violence and the criminals. Let the conservitaves keep their guns but take the guns out the criminals hands.

  • Rob2432

    Gun control=hit what you aim at

  • heartlandG

    jesse Posted: Jul.26 at 11:05 am
    @JTaylor21 that is the dumbest argument in regards to gun violence. think about how many less deaths we would have each year if guns weren’t so easily accessible
    ———————

    ^ Kinda like Guns are illegal in Mexico but the murder rate is TWO times higher…you’re an idiot

    and while we’re at! it less BAN spoons to fight obesity?!

    “The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government” – Thomas Jefferson

  • heartlandG

    …if only ONE person in that movie theater had a CCW permit, shyt woulda been different

  • http://www.kb24.com The Seed

    People are going to kill everyday. According to World stats, someone dies on this earth every 8 seconds, because of violence or its their time. People will always used guns to kill, so no matter how many new laws we have concerning guns, people will still get them illegally and kill people. Some people just don’t care about their lives or their futures so trying to act hard is their way of life. Its nothing but boys that are grown with kid mentalities of getting mine, he disrespected me or I rep this hood or gang. This world is wack and death is apart of it, so people we have to deal with it.

  • kh

    Last time I was at the Rucker I had to go through security and get a quick pat down before I could get in. They stop doing that?

  • http://cnbc.com JTaylor21

    The argument I was attempting to make was that Holmes is the farthest thing from imbalanced. The man knew what he was doing on the faithful day. Matter of fact, he planned out the entire scenario which proves pre-meditated murder.
    The orange hair, claims of being the Joker and dazed look in court is all part of his “I’m mentally ill” plan.
    FYI, just because someone goes to college doesn’t mean that they are smart.

  • LA Huey

    “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws (and knuckleheads) will have guns”

  • dahon

    guns dont kill people…people kill people

  • EJ

    In America there were 9,146 gun homicides commited in 2009. That’s a large number, even for a country with a population of about 313 million people.
    Now, if you add up the populations of Japan, The UK, South Korea, Australia, The Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, Norway, Hungary and New Zealand, all developped countries with more restrictive gun laws than the US, you get a total population of about 313 million.
    And now if you add up the number of gun homicides commited in each one of those countries in 2009, you get a grand total of…
    203.
    Either there’s something wrong with America’s gun laws, or Americans are just violent savages.
    And 2009 was actually a good year for America btw.

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