Getty Image
The LA Clippers are in a bad place right now. The team has struggled in the first two months of the season and they have lost superstar Blake Griffin for the next couple of months with a knee injury. Frustrated fans are taking their anger out on the team and one fan seemed to piss ofF Austin Rivers during last night’s Clippers loss against the Jazz.
Watch as Rivers gets threatens to “slap the shit out of” a heckling Clippers fan sitting courtside if he didn’t “shut the fuck up”
Austin Rivers tells Clippers fan sitting front row to "shut the fuck up" threatens to "slap the shit"out of him pic.twitter.com/bAOxTTiuXl
— Gifdsports (@gifdsports) December 1, 2017
Austin Rivers discussed the situation with the fan in an interview with Clutch Points.
Via Clutch Points
e was being a fairweather ass fan,” Rivers said, according to ClutchPoints. “He was talking shit about the team, but he was cheering the first half. And then the second half he was talking about Steve Ballmer and Doc [Rivers] and DJ and saying demeaning stuff to my other teammates. ‘Austin and DJ, y’all need help.’ I don’t like that. I like fans who ride or die with you, and there’s a lot of good ones here that show up to the game. He was talking shit about the team, not even me.”
“I went up after the game and apologized to the guy because at the end of the day, I’m the professional, he’s not,” Rivers said. “We shook hands and said, ‘My bad.’”
Austin Rivers should now expect to get trolled to death for the remainder of the NBA season from Clippers fans if the team continues to struggle.