It’s not a good time to be in any way, shape or form affiliated with the New Jersey Nets. They lost again, this time to the Miami Heat, dropping their record to a pathetic 7-63. It’s so bad, that some fans have even reverted to that age-old tradition of wearing a paper bag to games, as a way of voicing their disgust and displeasure with this sorry-ass franchise.
Now, that’s all fine and good, providing you don’t piss anyone off in the process. And most of the time, the crusty upper-management types don’t have a problem with the throngs of bag-wearing fans.
Unless you’re Nets CEO Brett Yormark. If you’re Yormark, then yeah, you got a problem with it–a big problem.
Allegedly, Yormark got into a heated argument with a fan sitting in the second row, paper bag covering his face. Whether Yormark’s lashing out was actually because the fan chose to voice his displeasure with the putrid Nets via the grocery bag medium, or if he’s just fed up with his team’s nightly crapfest o’ basketball, either way, Yormark let the dude have it.
The fan is claiming that Yormark asked him why he was wearing the bag. His response was a benign, yet sarcastic, “Because the Nets are so good.” Apparently this was enough, according to the fan, to set Yormark off on a verbal barrage of venom and bile-spewing anger. You would think that most people in the Nets organization would have developed a thick-skin by now, seeing that the Nets are the laughing stock of the NBA.
You’d be wrong.
A spokesperson for Yormark did not have any comment at this time.
