Davis Entering Bizzaro World

Antonio Davis is at home in Illinois serving his suspension for entering the stands Wednesday night. Yesterday he angrily refused calls to apologize and appealed his suspension while reasserting his original story that an intoxicated fan attacked his wife, Kendra.

But details are emerging that Kendra may not be completely innocent. This is not the first time she has gotten into trouble during a game. In 2001 she got into an argument with Latrell Sprewell during a Raptors-Knicks playoff series. Furthermore, according to witnesses, she was the one who initiated the confrontation with Michael Axelrod after hearing someone use a vulgar word behind her. From that point it is unclear what happened next other than Antonio Davis came into the stands to protect his wife. Apparently, security was watching the whole thing which makes Gothamist wonder exactly what are they there for?

So, this incident gets stranger. On one hand you have a man who went into the stands to protect his wife, which most people understand. But, what if his wife was at fault? Does that change your view of the incident? Mike Lupica thinks Antonio Davis should just shut up and the whole thing may be resolved by the most American of ways; a lawsuit.

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By Peter Trinkle on January 21, 2006 12:44 PM

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homeopt

does that 22 year old preternaturally bald punk really think he deserves $1M ? Does he really need that much rogaine ?

King of Zing

I would never allow my wife come to watch me work, end of story.

Mr.Jones

correction: hands in his "face"

Mr.Jones

At first, I was assuming that we had another heckler jerk on our hands making life difficult for a player's wife.

But anyone who has actually seen the extended video clip of the 'entire' event can clearly see that it was the wife Kendra who was in the wrong, as she had her hands all up in the guy's face, and touched him several times, while all he did was sit there, talk back, and then call for security.

Let's say for the sake of argument, the guy initially said something super rude to the woman. As a player's wife, she could have called security over and had the situation handled. Instead, she decided to read the guy the riot act, and provoke him by putting her hands in his fact (basically daring him to touch her), and then even touching 'him' (albeit, not in a way that hurt him, but still very provocative given the situation).

I see the fan, and the player Davis as the victims here. The wife Kendra basically made all this happen, and now one guy's reputation is damaged, and another guy (Davis) lost $600,000 (because of game suspensions). I feel sorry for Davis, he has to live with that woman. He should personally ban her from coming to any more of his games, because she doesn't know how to handle the public.