True definition of a thug

It’s hard to ever really figure out what Ron Artest is actually thinking on a basketball court. Luckily for us, he explains in full detail what was going through his head during last Sunday’s Lakers and Rockets game, which was nicely accented by Artest’s launching of Trevor Ariza’s stray PE pair of Hyperizes. Coincidentally, today also marks the 5th Year Anniversary of the infamous Auburn Hills Palace Brawl.

Here’s Ron Ron’s account of the shoe toss, as only he could explain it:

“Well what happened was…obviously I didn’t know his shoe would come off, that’s the first thing conservative reporters. I didn’t know his shoe was gonna come off. I don’t speak to his feet so I don’t know what his feet are thinking, I don’t know what his toes are thinking, I don’t know what he’s thinking. Then his shoe comes off and I’m like, ‘Okay, a shoe is not supposed to be on the basketball court without somebody standing inside of it.’ So I said, ‘Alright, I’m just gonna buy me some time.’ I really didn’t know whose shoe it was, but I said it has to be one of the player’s shoe. As soon as I toss it off the court, not throw into the stands which some people said, it’ll buy me some time. What happens is I come back down, Trevor is trying to put his shoe on and I politely hit a three in his face.”