Yormark: I Was Standing Up for Our Players

I looked this piece of trash up just for laughs and it turns out his facebook page says hes a Knicks fan. People sit courtside now a days aren’t always fans just people that got seats really cheap. I sat pretty much right where this kid was sitting against Toronto and I think me and my girlfriend were the only ones who actually knew any of the players on the team.

I’m glad Brett said something. If your going to go to a game and wear a bag over your head, than just stay home.

I am living in a parallel universe…or perhaps some special hell?

Yormark is a Big Nothing.
The guy had many solid people leave the organization because of his level.
Wow he took his kids out of the arena and came back to grandstand.
I am sure most players on the team don’t even like him.
As far as him being the best at what he does. This is a joke because he has his own publisists promoting him.
Thorn and Kiki tuned him out the day he arrived on the scene.
Now I don’t know the guy, but it seems like everybody cannot be wrong about the clown.
The guys ship is sinking, even his wife left him this year.
At the exciting groundbreaking, it was sick to watch him acknowledge that Jay-Z is his very good friend.
I almost thew up because Jay-Z is from Brooklyn and I am sure he sees right threw this clown.
A used car salesmen trying to act presidential.
It just does not work.
Especially in Brooklyn.

GO BROOKLYN NETS!

I bet he paid the “fan” to attend, this way he looks like a “good guy” to Proky and Nets fans.

Maybe he knows he’s next to get the boot, sooner then later, along with Thorn.

Proky needs to clean the slate and start out with new management.

Maybe Proky can somehow get rid of Ratner while he’s at it.

First off I have met Brett a couple of times. He is usually very very nice to people around the arena. No matter how busy he is on his blackberry or talking to big business types he will also take a minute to talk you or shoot the stuff about anything. Brett was walking with his family. The guy responded very rudely. Brett went back and told him off. If someone talked down to me in front of my family, no matter what position I was in, I would go back and say something to them. Especially these two knuckle heads who look like they were their probably more to cause trouble than watch a game courtside.

You may hate the guy for his marketing ploys, but you have to commend him for standing up for the REAL Nets fans that don’t wear bags to the games.

I mean i understand his frustration, but what if the whole arena started to boo what would he do then? run to the PA booth and tell everybody to be quiet, and stop hurting his teams feelings??? HONESTLY If a fan wants to wear a bag over his head, he paid hes not hurting anyone … i dont see the problem. Brett you need to increase your self control because that was totally unprofessional Mr. CEO

“A working class hero is someone to be”

This Nets season keeps getting more warped as we approach light speed.

Please tell me it’s almost over

…that people are on yormark’s side.

Yormark went up to them looking for an arguement and he got it. They paid their money, they can do whatever they want without getting out of hand. He started it.

Yormark has a problem with bags but sees nothing wrong if everyone in the arena turned there jersey inside out and wore a Wade side.

He’s a fool and looks like an idiot.

He’s lucky it wasn’t me he came up to. Then again, I’d never be seen in that arena.

lol your soo right with the reversible jersey thing,… it was an idiotic move by him. you would think he would know better

Its not a point of him yelling at the guy for wearing the bag. He didn’t go up to the guy and say “TAKE THAT BAG OFF YOUR HEAD!!!!” So stop saying “Oh next he will tell people to stop booing”. He asked the guy a question, the dude disrespected him by giving him a smart answer. If you asked someone a question and they gave you a smart answer you telling me you wouldn’t be a little peeved? Especially if they did it in front of your wife and kids? Cmon now the guy was just heated about the way the guy talked to him. We all get heated some times. It had nothing to do with the bag. More about just talking down to him as a person. If you guys say you wouldn’t do the same then I guess you just let people talk to you however they want….

I wouldn’t go to a single game this year if I were still in the area and I had season tickets for three seasons. I will never get over the “reversible jersey” promotion. What a slap in the face. It’s already bad enough that they sell opponents’ jerseys in the arena (I don’t see that in Orlando at Amway). But to flat out encourage opposing fans to come to games is outrageous. Not nearly as outrageous, however, as yelling at a fan for being ashamed of the team’s 7-1000000000 record. The only people that show up are the ones that take advantage of the FREE tickets (or in my little brother’s case, $50 a pop for a courtside seat.) I wouldn’t be able to GIVE my season tickets away this year. The fact that someone showed up and voiced his displeasure is music to my ears. Everyone knows that we aren’t angry at the players. It’s obvious that it isn’t their fault. They were put in a position to fail and by golly they did. We all should wear bags.

Again this isn’t about the bag obviously as the reports have it but people will just jump on any band wagon they see I guess when they hate a person.

You’re complaining that they guy talked down to the CEO? He gave a sarcastic answer. Who cares who it was in front of.

There is no room for Southern Hospitatlity in NJ, not this season.

Yormark should have kept walking, he didn’t have to open his mouth first.

You’re shocked a guy in NJ responded with a sarcastic answer?!?! come on

So because the guy is a CEO and we live in NJ its ok to talk down to people? Thanks for the advise. I plan on going into work tomorrow and telling my boss he sucks. Its ok though im from NJ so I can do that….cmon your better than that….

It’s disgusting there’s even an argument here. Had a player said something to the Paper Bag, he would be fined or suspended. The CEO of the team should be held in the same regard. This kid wasn’t the first to wear a paper bag over his head at the izod… It’s been done before and with good reason- it’s embarrassing to be a Nets fan this season! I’m made fun of by friends constantly for supporting this joke of a francise, but I still support them.

Also you say who cares who it was in front of. I don’t know about you but if someone tried to talk down to me in front of my girlfriend or my family. I wouldn’t just walk away saying “Ohhh these NJ fans they deserve to yell at me…” Thats just my opinion.

There is a huge difference between talking down to someone and giving a sarcastic answer to an obvious question.

Yormark was with his fam so he should have walked them out (some real fans they are, not even staying til the end) and then come back in and said something if he felt he REALLY needed to.

And off the subject for a second on Yormark. I find it funny that all of you who are Nets fans support the guy wearing the bag. I don’t care how bad our team is, what does that say when you support wearing the bag (even though I stated earlier the guy is a Knicks fan). Its amazing how little real fans are left. It’s ok though they will all come out of the word work like in 01-02….

That is exactly what Yormark did! The guy said it in front of his kids and wife. He walked them out. And came back and said he was a jerk for saying that in front of his kids. If you guys think that is wrong. By all means go ahead. But I feel it was just a guy, telling another guy how he felt. End of story.

Proky stood up and swore in Russian that my whole family was in danger unless I took off the bag.

If Brett cared so much about the team he would forfeit his salary for a real coach

Ok so because Yormark asked why he had a bag on his head its the wrong thing to do? If i was CEO i would do the same thing. I would be like “Why you wearing that bag, they are playing pretty hard tonight against the Heat”…and if the dude said…“Because their so good” I would have called him an A-Hole and kept on walking. Since I see I am heavily out numbered I will take ya’lls approach with this situation in my own life. Next time I ask a question and a get a smart answer back…I’ll be a wimp and say Ohh thats exactly the answer I was looking for thanks for making me feel lower than you…and walk away…Cause apparently thats how you all handle these situations. Laughable….

No one is saying wimp out. You are blowing what the guy said to yormark way out of proportion.

Everyone who knows sports knows why people get to “bag on the head” mode. Brett knows he’s gonna be in the paper if he acts out of character so this is all his fault.

You live in NJ Chris? You don’t have any smart allec friends? Get real, bro. The team is god awful and it was only a matter of time before Yormark fell victim to his disaster. He obvioulsy is not as in touch with the fans as he thought he was.

I call this a wake up call.

He should hook in with Continental Airlines and pass out free air-bags to fans attending the game. They would be most useful.

Thats how nets fans feel…Yormark is an idiot.

all nets fans are frustrated. The bag over the head is a great example of how us net fans feel. Im surprised Yormark didn’t get his kicked.

Don’t bring your kids to work. Hiding behind your family is not very smart or honorable. You know you will be a target, especially with how unpopular you are with Nets fans. But then again you probably think being 7-60 something is just dandy.

Rest of the way, we should borrow(not pay for) those reversible Jerseys and wear bags at every home game. who’s with me?

but if you already have a ticket then why not show up and frustrate Yormark more? :)

Yormark is a slimeball. He might be a good salesman but he’s turned our already unskilled franchise into a laughing stock. He is the perfect epitome of how disrespected we’ve become as a franchise. He’s lucky I wasn’t in the stands, for I would have done my best to insult him. Like, this idiot cares if someone wears a bag over his head when he’s giving out Heat jerseys to ticket holders? I hope the Russian has a sense of pride and fires this bum the day he takes over.

then yes, show up and wear a bag

a bag with no eye holes is even more effective

Check out the bottom right hand corner of that picture, where Yormark is pointing at the fan.
That partial, cut off image of that women’s face tells it all.

She is looking at Yormark with a bemused you gotta be kidding me look on her face.

I think Yormark must be losing it.

a couple of rows back.

Who has seats in that section, in that very neighborhood?

He’s a hint: his name rhymes with Shatner, but he is not as good a commander.

Yormark has been disrespecting Nets fans, especially those from NJ, with all his marketing b.s. and promoting Brooklyn while it was still years and years away. He deserves everything he gets, and I’m glad that fan didn’t just sit down quietly and continue watching the HORRIBLE product that was on the floor.

This has been ALL OVER the media today… My take on it is probably in the minority.

I feel like Yormark was not out of line at the game… I wish I could do the same to the craptacular fans that boo, and disrespect their own team they supposedly come to watch(the incident with “Twin” comes to mind)… I am a firm believer in the crowd being the 6th man. I envy fan bases like the Thunder, and you can really tell when watching a Thunder game that the players really do get fueled by the roar of the crowd. I know I would. Even when the Thunder were the worst team in the league a few years ago, if you watched the games, even when down by 15 they would never hear a boo, they would still get cheered. Granted I haven’t been to a game in Jersey since the year Kidd left, but its incredible to me that people will go to a game and think that boo’ing, or putting a bag over their heads, will actually make the team that’s out there magically go to the championship. Now in part, I understand that its because its a NY fan base, and NY’ers are just like that, but its just something that is inexcusable no matter where you are, what sport, or what team. I consider myself a “die-hard” Nets fan. I go to Boston Celtics games with my Nets gear on, I subscribe to League Pass all most exclusively for the Nets, I still watch every single game, and given all that, I just cant see myself going to a game to boo that team! If I didn’t like something, I wouldn’t be a part of it. I realize(its common sense) that these players and coaches are just doing what the are told, and honestly, protesting in any way wont do a damn thing…

The worst part about all this, is that when, not if, they get turned around, and maybe even win a title in a few years, I am going to look like just another bandwagon “fan.”

….didn’t stand up for LFrank when Kiki was stabbing him in the back and turning the entire organization against the young coach…Yormack was buying the snakeoil that Kiki was selling and now he is mad that Kiki conned everyone and actually made the team WORSE after LFrank left…Couldn’t have happened to a slicker salesman…..The cancer was Kiki, not LFrank.

That is why my mantra is:

FIRE KIKI!!!

Hollah!

I’m glad someone can see where I’m coming from. Whether you agree or not with Yormark blowing up on the person is one thing, but how can you people argue that going to a game with a paper bag on your head productive. And I applaud what you said about the “NY Area Sports Team”. Its like just cause some people can be A-Holes at a game means that just the way its supposed to be? People are so short sighted its amazing. If anything BOTH men in this situation were in the wrong. To put all the blame on Yormark amazes me. I can’t wait for this team to move to Brooklyn where not only where their be a winning product on the floor. But people in the burrough will treat the team with the love and respect it deserves.

I don’t care how low your opinion of Yormark is, if this happened at any other arena worldwide whoever pulled that would have had their asses handed to them. This DOES show how few loyal fans we have. I am 1000% Yormark on this one, i can’t believe some of you are even having a discussing about it.

You don’t pull stuff like that if you are a true fan. simple as that.

I don’t know why any of you are shocked at this piece of CRAP Yormark insulting a fellow Nets fan.

Yorkmark, and the Ratner regime, have taken a dump on this fanbase for years now. This year was the nail in the coffin. Worst record and team in the history of the NBA. They expect fans to grin and bare it?

That fan was justified to wear a bag on his head. This team is a JOKE. The team and front office should be embarrassed

Yormark is lucky that the guy he blasted even bothered to show up for this garbage, or didn’t roll up that paper bag and throw it in his dirty face.

It’s disgraceful to see people defending Yormark

is a straight up clown….. i’m a die hard nets fan….and i would totally put a bag over my head….. i dont care if this team had only 18 yr olds….. winning 7 games…. despicable… having no coach…dispicable…

tell Yomarket to put a bag on his head cuz he’s a CLOWN

can we send him paper bags to his office….. that would be soo cool

The reason that I will never defend Yormark on this is because he’s the one who INSTIGATED the whoe thing. Wearing a bag isn’t instigation. Yormark didn’t have to make a stupid comment or ask a stupid question regarding why the guy was wearing the bag. It’s obvious why he’s wearing it. Considering that he was with his family, it makes his questioning all the more idiotic. He should’ve gone out of his way to be friendly towards the fans and setting a good example in front of his kids. Instead, he invites the confrontation by making a comment. Inexcusable.

Now, had the fan been heckling him and taunting the players then that would’ve been different. That wasn’t the case.

FWIW, that pic is classic. The fan seems to be shifting the blame to his buddy and his buddy has no problem with it as he looks like he’s eager to whoop Yormark’s ass. Then, you even have some youngster in the front row whose facial expression seems to suggest that even he knows what a douche Yormark is.