As It Turns Out, Ron Artest’s Story About The Table Leg Through The Chest Really Happened

Last night, Ron Artest puffed his pipe, set a few rascally reporters on his knee and spun quite a yarn. The video can be seen on Ball Don’t Lie (via Talk Hoops); I’ll post a partial transcript below.

I remember one time, it was um…one of my friends, you know, he was playing basketball, they was winning the game, they were so competitive, they threw a, um, they broke the … a piece of leg from a table and they threw it and it went right through his heart and he died.

No way, right? That’s Ron Artest for you. Always recounting tales about friends being impaled by furniture. Well … as it turns out, he was telling more than a colorful anecdote. From the April 15, 1991 New York Times:

A 19-year-old basketball player from Queens was fatally stabbed with a broken-off table leg today after a fight broke out during a basketball tournament, the police said.

The story notes that the player was stabbed by a 16-year-old. And Artest would have been 12 years old the night he witnessed this.

So this is New York City. Frank Sinatra and the Pace salsa commercials failed to warn me.

Posted at 1:50 pm
on May 7th, 2009
Tags: Houston Rockets, NBA, NBA Playoffs, Ron Artest, Ron Artest Is The Truth

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DjRyB 9 months ago 1 point
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No freakin' way! My boy and I were talking about how crazy Artest was and how he HAD to have made that up. That is NUTS!!!

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He gets street cred for that one. fo sho.

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Aw, shucks.

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Let's stick to basketball, not a bunch of criminals playing ball. They are all probably in prison by now. Ron should be very grateful to the NBA for keeping him out prison. Basketball history speaks for itself just go back and see how much trouble Ron as caused by playing dirty. Great players like Kolbe play dirty because they have to in order to get respect from player like Ron. It is up to the referees to tame the sport keeping player from playing dirty.

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HA ha rep h-town artest lol a true g and not a punk like kobe!

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FYI, Niagara Falls is a long way from New York City.

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nice to hear from willieburr. Let's stick to basketball, not a bunch of criminals playing ball. They are all probably in prison by now. Ron should be very grateful to the NBA for keeping him out prison. Basketball history speaks for itself just go back and see how much trouble Ron as caused by playing dirty. Great players like Kolbe play dirty because they have to in order to get respect from player like Ron. It is up to the referees to tame the sport keeping player from playing dirty.

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SOme players are used of playing dirty, well can't they just play fair and stick to the game rules

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Ron should be very grateful to the NBA for keeping him out prison. Basketball history speaks for itself just go back and see how much trouble Ron as caused by playing dirty. Great players like Kolbe play dirty because they have to in order to get respect from player like Ron. It is up to the referees to tame the sport keeping player from playing dirty.

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Its wrong. The word sports has a meaning to it.

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Let's stick to basketball, not a bunch of criminals playing ball. They are all probably in prison by now. Ron should be very grateful to the NBA for keeping him out prison. Basketball history speaks for itself just go back and see how much trouble Ron as caused by playing dirty.

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Let's stick to basketball, not a bunch of criminals playing ball. They are all probably in prison by now. Ron should be very grateful to the NBA for keeping him out prison. Basketball history speaks for itself just go back and see how much trouble Ron as caused by playing dirty. Great players like Kolbe play dirty because they have to in order to get respect from player like Ron. It is up to the referees to tame the sport keeping player from playing dirty.

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The story notes that the player was stabbed by a 16-year-old. And Artest would have been 12 years old the night he witnessed this.

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Now a days some players are behaing very badly in the public so they deserve to be arrest.

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I remember one time, it was um…one of my friends, you know, he was playing basketball, they was winning the game, they were so competitive

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Ron should be thankful to NBA. But everyone should understand the meaning of fair game and sports.It should be played in right way.Dirtiness should be avoided from basketball then only it will be more enjoyable.

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Basketball history speaks for itself just go back and see how much trouble Ron as caused by playing dirty. Great players like Kolbe play dirty because they have to in order to get respect from player like Ron. It is up to the referees to tame the sport keeping player from playing dirty

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They are all probably in prison by now. Ron should be very grateful to the NBA for keeping him out prison. Basketball history speaks for itself just go back and see how much trouble Ron as caused by playing dirty. Great players like Kolbe play dirty because they have to in order to get respect from player like Ron.

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Let's stick to basketball, not a bunch of criminals playing ball. They are all probably in prison by now. Ron should be very grateful to the NBA for keeping him out prison. Basketball history speaks for itself just go back and see how much trouble Ron as caused by playing dirty. Great players like Kolbe play dirty because they have to in order to get respect from player like Ron. It is up to the referees to tame the sport keeping player from playing dirty.

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Ron should be very grateful to the NBA for keeping him out prison. Basketball history speaks for itself just go back and see how much trouble Ron as caused by playing dirty. Great players like Kolbe play dirty because they have to in order to get respect from player like Ron. It is up to the referees to tame the sport keeping player from playing dirty.

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Sure he’s dealing in stereotypes, and sure, Cubs fans have improved their acumen in recent years, but by and large the let’s-drink-in-the-sun-and-maybe-watch-baseball-too atmosphere still permeates Wrigley. It’s part of what makes the experience so much fun. It’s also what makes it occasionally annoying. And this is coming from a Cubs fan.

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basketball player from Queens was fatally stabbed with a broken-off table leg today after a fight broke out during a basketball tournament, its really bad

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Great players like Kolbe play dirty because they have to in order to get respect from player like Ron. It is up to the referees to tame the sport keeping player from playing dirty.

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