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Jason
Williams Verbally Attacks Fan
By Jim Buzinski
Outsports.com
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Back to Anti-Gay List Williams,
Sacramento Kings guard, was fined $15,000 in March for making ethnic
and gay slurs at a Golden State Warriors' fan during a Feb. 28
game.
 The player
said the fan, Michael Ching, called him a ``skinhead'' and ``racist,''
charges Ching denied. According to the Sacramento Bee, the third-year
point guard allegedly responded with the following: "Are you a
fag?" "Are you gay?" "Do you remember the Vietnam
War? I'll kill y'all just like that." Williams then pretended to
be aiming a rifle and emitting a "rat-a-tat-tat" sound,
according to witnesses. "Just like Pearl Harbor," he is said
to have added.
This was the second time this season Williams has been fined for
verbally lashing at fans. Kings' management said they won't tolerate
any more outbursts by Williams.
While Williams apologized for his specific anti-Asian remarks, he
couldn't bring himself to using the word ``gay.''
``I did not intend any disrespect to the Asian community or any other
community," Williams said in a written statement. "I was
wrong and I apologize."
In a weird coincidence, all three anti-gay outbursts occurred on the
28th of a month--Iverson (Jan. 28), Williams (Feb. 28) and Tavarez
(April 28).
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