Ron Artest at 11
“I remember when I used to play back home in the neighborhood there were always games like that. I remember one time, one of my friends, he was playing basketball and they were winning the game. It was so competitive, they broke off a piece of leg from a table and they threw it and it went right through his heart and he died right on the court.
So I’m accustomed playing basketball really rough.”
-Ron Artest from A wild and crazy night: Kobe gets tough, Artest gets angry and the NBA has some decisions to make
“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.”
Player Dies in Stabbing at Basketball Game from a 1991 New York Times article
