Report: Celtics Fan Banned for Calling Warriors’ DeMarcus Cousins N-Word.
A Boston Celtics fan has been banned from attending games at TD Garden through the end of the 2019-20 season for directing a racial slur at Golden State Warriors center DeMarcus Cousins.
Per Yahoo Sports’ Chris Haynes, a fan called Cousins the N-word during the Warriors’ Jan. 26 game in Boston and was subsequently banned from Celtics games for the remainder of this season and all of next season.
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The situation with Cousins has been made public two weeks after a second high-profile fan incident involving Oklahoma City Thunder star Russell Westbrook.
Two Utah Jazz fans were issued lifetime bans from Vivint Smart Home Arena for directing racist language at Westbrook. The first incident occurred during last year’s postseason when a fan called the former NBA MVP “boy” prior to Game 4 of a Western Conference first-round series, per Eric Woodyard of the Deseret News.
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