Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel was seen sitting courtside for the Dallas Mavericks-Miami Heat game on Thursday night. This prompted TNT commentators Steve Kerr, Marv Albert and Mike Fratello to discuss whether or not it was an NCAA violation for him to be sitting there; as in whether or not the tickets were improper benefits given to him by someone else. Manziel must have heard about this because he took to Twitter to respond.
Bought myself a little birthday present tonight stop hating! #HEATvsMAVS
— Johnny Manziel (@JManziel2) December 21, 2012
No need to worry Aggies fans, your quarterback will be just fine. Some others also said that Manziel’s family was doing just fine financially, and his parents probably got him the tickets.
Johnny Manziel’s family is in the oil and real estate business. So, yeah … let’s not trip about him being courtside.
— Brian Floyd (@BrianMFloyd) December 21, 2012
How expensive were the seats exactly?
Courtside seat Manziel is sitting in tonight typically resells for about $400 on regular games, $600+ for games like Heat.
— darren rovell (@darrenrovell) December 21, 2012
Follow up on value of seat Manziel is sitting in tonight. One guy was selling his courtsides for $1,250 each tonight.
— darren rovell (@darrenrovell) December 21, 2012
It’s really too bad that we have gotten to the point where any time we see a collegiate athlete with something nice that we assume they must be breaking an NCAA rule. I always say, innocent until proven guilty, and Manziel hasn’t given anyone a reason to doubt him.
Johnny Football is a big fan of LeBron James:
[Video via: @cjzero] [Photo: @KingJames]
I’m a Bama fan and I think these commentators’ comments are utterly ridiculous. They should keep their mouths shut if they don’t know anything about how he came about the seat.
He’s a racist. That’s all that matters. Scum of the Earth.
Marv Albert is a racist? I did not know that.
Obviously the commentators just assume every college athlete is poor.
Morons….his pops has plenty of scratch.
Who cares? He’s Johnny Football. Rules are for losers.
Steve Kerr is a buffoon. He simply feels negleted. Another white boy is getting attention over him at a bball game.
Always gotta be a hater making a fool of himself.
I thought he had better taste.Taking his picture with that wannabe La Queen Jane,the self proclaimed so-called king(w/small K)By the way is Mansiel playing with the kings butt?Just asking,by the look of the picture.
i guess p diddy’s kid will have the problem?
Kerr is that kid when you were little tha t would go and tell on you if he didn’t get his way. Snitches get stitches Kerr, keep your hating mouth closed. Good for Marv to call him out for being a hater, funny stuff.
“Jealous ex players, that’s the kind of ish I don’t like”