WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — Minnesota Timberwolves star Michael Beasley was videotaped as he shoved a fan during a summer league basketball game in Dyckman Park on Thursday night.
A YouTube video shows Beasley grabbing fan Garland Quince's face and shoving him backwards.
“He just mushed me. He mushed me in face,” Quince told the Daily News. “I was arguing about a Kevin Durant call and he just mushed me in the face.”
The 6-foot-10, 235-pound Timberwolves power forward interacted with the crowd throughout the game, at one point yelling out “We’re going to win!” when his team got an early lead.
Quince ramped up his heckling of NBA forward in the second half of the game between Beasley’s Team 914 and Team Nike, led by Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant.
After the altercation, security reportedly escorted Beasley away from Quince, and the game resumed.
Adris De Leon, a neighborhood player who goes by the handle of “2 Hard 2 Guard,” told the Associated Press that the Beasley was out of line for going after the fan.
“He did disrespect him a lot,” he said of the shoving incident, adding that that Beasley should have expected heckling.
Quince, who was not injured, told the News that would he wouldn't press charges, but called Beasley a bad sport.
