Defending His Wife

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Antonio Davis of the NY Knicks has been suspended and fined for leaving the court when he saw that his wife was being assaulted/harrassed/manhandled by two men in the stands.

While I agree that an athlete should never leave the court or field to interact with people in the stands, and appreciate the hefty fines, especially after that ugly fight last season between players and a fan, something else was happening here and I think Mr. Davis' suspension and the fine are way too heavy.

What do you think? Should he have left the court? Should he have been fined and suspended? Do you think the fact that one of her alledged assaulters is a politician's son has anything to do with his getting benched?

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Weird.

From that account, it sounds like it's reasonable and not something that deserves such a hefty punishement. I'm not sure if it's the politician's son part that got him benched so much as zero tolerance/ making an example out of him, since it's a fairly new policy.

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eoe- I know very little about professional sports, and never heard about Antonio Davis. The only thing that I could say, is that if Davis thought that his wife was in harm's way, he did the right thing to attempt to get the guy away from her, and damn the team rules.

It was a split second decision. I think that Davis should have gotten a slap on the wrist for going against the rules of the team, but I think that his punishment WAS unreasonable.

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Me too. A little fine, maybe a one game suspension, just to make their point, but if I was young Mr. Axlerod's father, instead of watching him file lawsuits, I would be in his ass about whatever was going on between him and Mrs. Davis during the game. Whatever was said should not have escalated to such a degree.
Never got a clear understanding about the other guy who supposedly put his hands on her. Where did he come from and why was he involved?

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Davis did what any husband would have. He ran to the defense of his wife.
Under the circumstances I believe the league over reacted.

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Where were the ushers in all this. It seems to me that family members of players should be protected from the kind of harassment his wife was subject to.

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Seems as if she was sitting seven rows up in the stands instead of further down behind the players bench, where most wives sit. It's safer to sit down there, for this very reason, but from that spot, you really don't get a good view of the court.

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A person's right to defend members of his family is absolute.

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Acquiunk wrote:

Where were the ushers in all this. It seems to me that family members of players should be protected from the kind of harassment his wife was subject to.

Ever since that incident they have had security in place for the families and, I believe, are keeping them in special secluded sections.

Antonio Davis did the right thing, but it could have been a problem to let him go without a punishment. Both sides, it seems, did what they had to. It's unfortunate, but that's how the world works, eh?

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But five games?? He'll lose $700,000 in total (boohoo Rolling Eyes

) but that's alot of moolah to lose for defending your family.

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I agree that the suspension is excessive... I can understand why the league wants to keep player out of the stands, but under these circumstances, he did the right thing. Hopefully he will win the appeal.

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From what I've read and heard Mr. Davis' wife is a royal pain in the ass. The men involved in the alledged assault were asking for security long before the incident occured.

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