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- ABC News
- June 7, 2019
NBA bans team owner after shoving player
Mark Stevens was sitting court side when the drama unfolded.
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“He had no reason to touch me. He had no reason to reach over two seats and then say some vulgar language to me,\" Lowry said after the game, which ended with the Raptors winning 123 to 109 over the Warriors to take a 2-1 series lead in the best of seven series.
“There’s no place for people like that in our league and, hopefully, he never comes back to an NBA game,” he added.
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Members of the Golden State Warriors, including coach Steve Kerr and star point guard Steph Curry, had also expressed outrage ahead of the NBA’s decision to ban Stevens for a year.
Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James shared video of the incident on Instagram, calling for \"swift action\" from the league.
\"There’s absolutely no place in our BEAUTIFUL game for that AT ALL. There’s so many issues here,\" he said. \"When you sit courtside you absolutely know what comes with being on the floor and if you don’t know it’s on the back on the ticket itself that states the guidelines.\"
He said NBA officials should be doing all they can to protect the players in stances like this one, noting that things could have escalated if Lowry had decided to retaliate.
View this post on InstagramA post shared by LeBron James (@kingjames) on Jun 6, 2019 at 9:42am PDT
\"Just think to yourself, what if @kyle_lowry7 would have reacted and put his hands back on him. You guys would be going CRAZY,\" James said. \"He knew the rules more than just the average person sitting watching the game courtside so for that Something needs to be done ASAP.\"
Curry said he didn’t witness the exchange in real time, but video of the incident clearly proved that Stevens was out of line.
\"When you see the video it is pretty clear who was in the wrong,\" Curry told reporters after the game. \"I just credit Kyle, it could have been a lot worse in terms of an altercation that should not have happened in the beginning. Kinda who Kyle is in terms of protecting himself, but doing it in a graceful way for sure.\"
\"It's not my jurisdiction but I will, also, personally apologize to Kyle and the Raptors. That's unacceptable,\" Kerr added.
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Stevens issued a public apology shortly after the NBA announced its decision Thursday night and attributed the incident to a “lapse in judgement.”
“What I did was wrong and there is no excuse for it,” he said in a statement after NBA’s announcement late Thursday. \"I hope that Mr. Lowry and others impacted by this lapse in judgement understand that the behavior I demonstrated last night does not reflect the person I am or have been throughout my life.\"
He said he reached out to Lowry and the Toronto Raptors to apologize directly. “I’m grateful to those who accepted my calls,\" Stevens said. \"I made a mistake and I’m truly sorry. I need to be better and look forward to making it right.\"
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