That's right, there's no in between. that's right, there can only be one person in the wrong and it was clearly the fan so the end. both smart and the fan can be a douche. i'll estimate an idiot fan has hurled racist slurs at black athletes oh maybe 27 million times in history. amazingly very few have gone into the stands to assault the idiot fan. so yeah, what smart did was stupid, regardless of what the guy said. Smart had already fallen in the front row when the fan started talking, this wasn't a Ron Artest running into the stands situation. If more of those athletes were 6" from the fan saying the racial slur, they'd have done what Marcus Smart did or worse. Why is the burden of self control on the 19-year old and not the 50-year old bigot? I mean, sure, it would have been helpful for his team if he didn't shove the guy, but his reaction wasn't ridiculous or out of line and I wouldn't consider it douche-like. (Again, all this only if the fan used a racial slur. If he's using garden variety trash talk, Smart's reaction was horrible.) can't the burden of self control be on both? are you trying to make it sound like I'm trying to defend the racist hill person or what?i don't get your angle here.