By Les Tan/Red Sports
Miller (in blue) had a torrid time in Singapore with some of the Slinger fans and walked straight off to the changing room at the final buzzer to cool off. (Photo 4 © Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports)
In the first semi-final playoff game between the Singapore Slingers and the visiting Satria Muda BritAma, a fan’s court-side taunt has led to Satria Muda’s centre Nakiea Miller exploding online in frustration.
After drawing a foul, a fan sitting right at court side taunted Miller with words like “boo hoo” and “don’t cry”. Miller reacted, saying “I’m going to get you after the game”, which led to the reply, “Come find me at Geylang with all the chicks,” triggering laughter from some fans.
Parts of Geylang are known to Singapore locals as a red light area.
Miller eventually fouled out of the game and his team went down to a 68-87 defeat.
The American import then posted the following on the ABL facebook page on February 1st:
“There are some people that just come to the game and enjoy the game. Than there’s fans like what happen in Detriot and Indiana few years back. Some Slingers fans that i did nothin wrong too just yelling at me like the lost they mind, but i cant respond, that aint me. respect me and i respect u. You guys telling ur si…des making sound like im some bad person! It take 2 to argue and im (sic) on the court u pay to watch a show and thats what i do!!! Everyone can holla at me on twitter @kiablood43!!!” (sic)
Miller’s teammate, Alex Hartman, also weighed in on the page and wrote about Slinger fans:
“…your fans are great, load and very roudy group, thats great. They also are rude with the worst mouths in the league. No other fans yell profanities or attack players as you guys. Once again I dont mind… but an Indonesian crowd has never stouped that low. And we have the best fans.” (sic)
The Slingers are flying into Jakarta this afternoon and the stage is now set for what could be an explosive game on Wednesday night, February 3rd, in Game 2 of the semi-final playoffs.
Satria Muda need to win to take the series into the a third game. If they win, the final game will be back in Singapore on Sunday, February 7th.
Alex Hartman has come out in support of his teammate online. (Photo 2 © Lai Jun Wei/Red Sports)
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