I think the blame lies with the fans on this one, Artest was keeping cool, until he had some (unkown at the time to him) foriegn object land on him, and was in danger of being attacked ( any reasonable person could deduce) he had a full right to defend himself, I think he made a tactical error as a matter of my opinion though, and I would have went to the center of the court with my team and circled the wagons ... ( rather than enter an unknown number of combatants in an unfriendly town!!!) But I do not fault his I must fight to defend myself point of vieww, or right to do so...!
Words are words, and players have to take that it is part of the game, but pysical assaults ( such as the coach in baseball that got jumped by those two guys) is not something they should be expected to overlook
as a good patriot, he took pre emptive action, in order to defend himself, as he might have been attacked by a WMD from that crowd, and has the right to protect himself above all other rights. THE RIGHT OF SURVIVAL is the most basic right of any species on earth no matter hw you look at it.
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