NBA / Jan 6, 2009 / 8:30 am
Cornbread was Ron Artest before Ron Artest
I was just online looking for a clip of the new Taco Bell ad starring Darryl Dawkins and Vlade Divac when I came across this: From the 1981 Eastern Conference Finals, Celtics’ guard Cedric “Cornbread” Maxwell doesn’t just take out a fan in the stands, HE STAYS IN THE GAME after the melee. Amazing how you never hear about this, whereas nowadays he would have been suspended for the entire season and then gone down in history as a goon.
January 6th, 2009 at 8:39 am
boo says:
There was no ESPN in that day and age. We didn’t have anyone to shove that down our throat on a 24 hour basis with special analysis and extreme criticisim’s.
January 6th, 2009 at 8:41 am
P.C.Peace says:
“MAXWELL WAS WRONG…” … ?!!! WTF?!! He was right, just as Ron Artest was right getting all up in the fan’s face … i mean, ok, true, the fans pay money to see the players play, and the fans pay a huge chunk of salaries and bla bla bla, but that dont mean the fan owns the player. True Story.
January 6th, 2009 at 8:44 am
J 694 says:
I was waiting for Bird to jump in there with some Stephen Jackson style haymakers. Where was he?
January 6th, 2009 at 8:59 am
itaakademiks says:
did that announcer say “the fans pay their way in they have the right to say watever they want”? nigga trippppppppin
January 6th, 2009 at 9:10 am
yourdribbleizcookiez says:
hahahaha, Cedric was an og on the set i guess…. looks like an episode of keepin it real goes Wrong..
January 6th, 2009 at 9:15 am
DC says:
watch how bad robert parish travels right at the beginning of the clip when he catches the ball
January 6th, 2009 at 9:18 am
Me says:
that wasn’t no travel, it was a crab step.
January 6th, 2009 at 9:20 am
control says:
Artest=gangster.
Maxwell=short shorts wearing guy.
Getting beat up by a guy wearing short shorts ain’t news worthy, it’s just something to be buried under the rug.
January 6th, 2009 at 9:21 am
Ric Hardwood says:
Unfair to say Cornbread was wrong. Nowadays VC goes off because someone called him ‘Boy’, makes me wonder what that old dude called him… the fact that he stayed in the game was definitely cool tho’…
January 6th, 2009 at 9:26 am
Kudabeen says:
I saw that too DC…
post 5:
“Keeping it real goes wrong..” Too Funny.
Fan had to say something crazy…A man doesn’t start to walk away, then change his mind like that unless some ‘key’ word(s) was said…That guy didn’t know what to do…He just covered up…So funny.
Such a different league…Guys use to brawl and play physical/reckless…I like the product more now, but there is surely a lack of passion by comparison…It is getting better though…
January 6th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Kermit The Washington says:
Since when was dude’s nickname “cornbread”? LOL I never heard that…I always thought it was “Mad Max”. I guess the name “cornbread” was also buried under the rug…
But yeah, the league is MAD different now. But in this incident’s defense (?) is the fact that this didn’t turn into a straight MELEE, with fights breaking out all over the entire STADIUM like it was in Detroit. I actually couldn’t view the clip cause it’s blocked by my company’s content filter, but I’m assuming this fight started and ended in the same place.
January 6th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Ross says:
Was David Stern around then?
January 6th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Ric Hardwood says:
#11 Mad Max was Vernon Maxwell… and he Earned that name… lol
January 6th, 2009 at 9:57 am
Kermit The Washington says:
@ Ric…Oh YEAH!! I got them confused lol thanks for the clarification
January 6th, 2009 at 10:36 am
Kudabeen says:
Ross
He was around as a General Counselor…
In 1984 Stern was promoted as the League Commissioner..
January 6th, 2009 at 10:57 am
CitizenB says:
That dude in the plaid sportcoat dropped an “n-bomb”. Also, today’s coverage of these events is magnified by those who cover’s closet racism (you know ESPN isn’t much different than the dude in the plaid sportcoat, they just don’t say so).
January 6th, 2009 at 11:02 am
Celts Fan says:
exactly, someone probably said the wrong ish to Max. back in the 80s that’s definitely possible.
I remember Vernon Maxwell did the same thing in the early 90s too.
It helps the cause that back then you had only cable TV and newspapers. With HUGE TV content and the internet, it’s a different world nowadays for everyone in the public eye.
I guess the lesson is just make sure you don’t start a riot and you’re good…
January 6th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
weezy f says:
the fan threw something too
January 6th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
E$ says:
Fans can’t say anything they want, ask the guy that called Mutombo a monkey in Orl.
January 6th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
eddy says:
you guys said cedric maxwell is ron artest and the other day i was thinking jamal mashburn was paul pierce….
January 6th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Diego says:
Yeah, it does look like the fan threw something also.
And Vernon Maxwell did indeed also run up in the stands behind his bench a decade or so later to nail a fan. Hey Dime, can you locate that clip? Loved Vernon.
Finally, I also doubt any guy would even be too thrilled with the nickname Cornbread these days (which Cedric had when he played at Univ. of Charlotte, I believe), and even later in his career, you heard less of that nickname.