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madinmaryland

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Sun May 26, 2013, 11:42 AM May 2013

Pacers' radio broadcaster: Heat fans are 'losers' [View all]

Game 2 ended in disappointing fashion for the home crowd when Heat forward LeBron James uncharacteristically committed two turnovers in the final minute of the fourth quarter to help the Pacers seal a 97-93 win.

The sight of those two miscues was apparently too much for some in the American Airlines Arena crowd, who departed before the final buzzer. The early exit apparently delighted Indiana’s radio play-by-play broadcaster Mark Boyle, who ripped the Heat’s fans for not staying all the way through to the bitter end.

“We are literally sitting in the crowd here,” Boyle said, in an audio file of the broadcast posted on Miami sports site PageQSports.com. “These losers are leaving. They are flocking to the exits with their team down by three. This city does not only not deserve this team, they don’t deserve any team.”

Boyle, who has worked for the Pacers for more than two decades, posted a response on Twitter after receiving criticism over his comments about the Heat’s fans.

“It appears they don’t like me in Miami,” he wrote. “Ouch.”

Read more: http://nba.si.com/2013/05/25/pacers-radio-broadcaster-heat-fans-game-2-losers/?sct=hp_t2_a16&eref=sihp


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