According to the Smoking Gun, the phrase that fanned the flames at the Malace in the Palace was “You can suck my balls”. In an interview by NBA Security investigating the incident, Matt Dobek, the Pistons VP of Public relations stated that’s what he heard Artest say to Ben Wallace as he lay on the scorer’s table. In related news, the fan who threw the cup of beer at Artest has been banned for life from Pistons games. Oh for old times’ sake, let’s take a look at the video again.
In other news…
[AP]: Report: NBA union OKs supplement deal
[Elephant’s In Oakland]: A’s hire Geren as manager
[NY Daily News]: Giants Should have passed on Eli
[Yahoo]: Even though nobody watches the series, Cards get record $20M split
[The Wizard of Odds]: hating on Michigan
[Post-Gazette]: A Texas high school team has started doing the haka (minus the handbags)
