For professional athletes, there are proper ways of dealing with hecklers, and there are improper ways of dealing with hecklers.
For a lesson on the latter, we turn to Michael Beasley. The Minnesota Timberwolves forward joined Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant in Washington Heights, NY, for a friendly contest on Thursday night, but it wasn't long before Beasley totally lost sight of the "friendly" pretense.
As you can see in the above video, a heckler on the baseline got Beasley's attention after a player on Durant's team made a free throw. Instead of ignoring him, Beasley totally lost control. After some pointing and yelling, he walked right over to the heckler and shoved him right in the face.
Naturally, this precipitated quite a reaction from the crowd, and the actual game was delayed for about 10 minutes, as both Beasley and the crowd cooled off.
Now, I'm no expert on the New York streetball scene, but I don't think it would be much of a stretch to say that it's pretty common for bystanders to jaw and heckle at players. It's nothing out of the ordinary for basketball in general, really, but the perpetrator in this particular ...
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