it does seem pretty juvenile. But the Ewing's are a bunch of namedroppers who love the limelight.

Theres truth to Bruce's comments but best kept off social media.

Bruce and the H&A chick should just get a room.....again

7 points?

No one is touching him.

There are College players out there who could come back rated a 3 and be much much more productive than him:

Damon Heuir: 15.5ppg at SUU. Just finished his senior year

Joel Naburgs: 10 ppg at Stetson


Or they could use Bruce's salary and Henry's salary to try to lure back Delly!

Worth 7 Point, shot at 35% last season (37% for career), never played in a team with a winning record in his professional career, 2 coaches letting him go and continues to show no class.

NBL teams please line up to sign this guy.

A huge fall from grace for a guy once tabbed an NBA prospect in his freshman season I agree with macdub Sydney could get more from a rookie

The hate on here is real. Guys jump on a bandwagon trash talk. Motto of the forum right now 'Kick whilst down'. If only some could support hoops with the same amount of gusto that they use to down others on here.

Lets have an amnesty week of positivity.

He started it.

Rather have Kevin Braswell
Oh yeah to the Tigers GM thanks for Corletto
Love NZ Breakers!

Giving some douche from H&A shit should be applauded. Not to mention he's probably just done 100 times more to promote the league with those tweets than BA has in past few years. Who cares if he wants to have a bit of back and forward on twitter, every other pro league has athletes on social media making a stir every now and then but they don't get their hands held as much as our players seem to.

Any publicity is good publicity lol

Ricey,

There's a line though isn't there?

Abusing those who help to promote your team isn't the smartest. Forgetting about his contractual obligations?

I for one can live with NBL publicity from the likes of Homicide, J.Hodge (even though he took it too far) and other imports. Their trash talk is exciting.

But when your Aaron Bruce and struggling to get a gig as it is and you offend those who help to pay your living, its just stupidity.

why not join the tigers?

The hate on here is real.

also wishes every king on twitter good luck for games except Bruce.

Players are in the public spotlight. Of course they are going to get some criticism.

Bruce isn't the first and he won't be the last.

The other players in the league are often subject to similar criticism, but don't bite the line (probably because they are a bit more mature).

I'm pretty sure Ewing has his reasons for any harsh feelings he has towards Bruce.

All abuse and criticism?

Oh yes, not getting a good luck tweet from a person pre-game is one of the most degrading things a human could ever confront.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights clearly prohibits such torture.

People are taking the moral high ground on this!!!! I'm sure that he wouldn't randomly attack. Must be more to it. Hmmm, someone on here must love Home and Away.

Are you guys trying to match the immaturity of the twitter war in this thread?

Personally, I couldn't give two shits what Aaron Bruce tweets normally. This is just entertaining.

Can't we all just agree they're both douchebags and enjoy this while it lasts? #lovedonthate

Am I bad for saying I actually like Bruce for his hoops?
Would love him back here, can run the point beautifully..and surely the new coach could pull this so called attitude into line....

:highfive: Arron Bruce, too bad the Riverboys are gonna get him now haha, I wouldn't head over to Yabbie Creek alone

The funniest part is the PR guy publically tweeting to him to delete tweets and referencing his contract status.

How unprofessional is THAT?

Abuse and criticism? He was responding to a nice tweet about Bogut. And yes, it's a public spectacle and reviews/criticism happen. Ever watched At The Movies!?

very unprofessional but damn funny

The "PR guy" is a dipstick who has done more to harm the Kings reputation than anything Bruce has tweeted. He annoyed so many Kings fans with his deletions of posts on the Kings official Facebook site (not abusive, bad language or anything but just stuff he didn't like) that 2 unofficial fan groups started up to have a place where fans could post their thoughts. He's an A-grade douche who knows nothing about basketball & his media releases often have fans & others involved in Kings promotion tearing their eyes out they are so badly written.

I don't get how the PR guy was being unprofessional?

I'm quite sure they are looking at terminating his contract as of right now. This will cost Bruce two months salary.

@Pete

Spot on.

Because you don't reprimand players and ask them to do things like that in public forum. You use the correct channels.

He tried to DM him first, at least but couldn't because Bruce wasn't following or had unfollowed/blocked him.

Not so fussed about the PR guy and I doubt the Kings are too fussed, but this is hardly a great career move for a player. Bet Heal's thinking "I was still a bit torn on the decision, but it looks like we made the right move not keeping this guy."

So uhh, is anyone going to ice up Bruce for this season now?

I would have at least made a phone call...

Nah a phone call would be too hard. Sending a twitter message is far easier

I've never been a fan of Bruce. His game never lived up to his supposed potential or to his attitude. I gather he's had off court issues as well and I was surprised the Kings kept him on as long as they did. Still, I can understand why he or any player would resent the D-Grade "celebrities" who sit on the bench and strut around on game day like they should be the focus of attention. It's part of the Kings culture I've never understood the way they suck up to these d-listers and treat them like royalty.

That Wells character is pure PR person (or spin merchant) through and through. He is well intentioned I'm sure but has got offside with some of the non mainstream media people like bloggers and amateur photographers who generate more publicity than the stuff he generates. He did make himself look a bit of a fool on Facebook the way he attacked anybody who posted anything negative about Moose or the Kings generally and then got many fans offside by deleting posts he didn't like. He even made a post or 2 on Ozhoops attacking people who criticized Moose and called for him to be sacked but got out of there quickly. I don't think he's posted here, not with a recognisable name anyway like he made the mistake of doing on Ozhoops.

Sydney should be glad for the D Listers they have. It all creates the illusion of success and being the cool thing to do.

As for Bruce... He was once a decent guard. Looked like the next steve nash as many people said, but it really went nowhere... Missed out on NBA... Was average at best in NBL... and his best seems to have past him. Not a player I would bother picking up, should probably look to another career

my tweet wasn't even about that......


When it happened I didn't realize he was out of contract, either way it's a pretty strange thing to pick a public fight about.

People who talk positive about the NBL need to be encouraged, regardless of whether their on Home and Away or Gardening Australian.
God knows the league needs all the positive help it can get.

Where's the love..........

I liked Aaron Bruce a little more after reading his tweets.

Agree Mystro.

Sydney is painfully chock-full with these name-dropping Z-list boot-scum and it's good to see someone tell them how it is.

While I certainly don't understand the publics fascination with celebrity per se, I also cannot fathom how others despise those "celebrities" with such passion.

As I understand it the couple in question are Kings fans and like using social media to talk about the team - and they have a truck load if followers due to their perceived celebrity status with the general public. How is this anything but good for the kings and sport in general? And why Mick do you despise them with such passion? (Not meaning to single you out - you're just the most recent post I've seen)

Wow #416992, you went massively out on a limb with that post, possibly the most controversial thing I have ever seen here. When you go to an Italian restaurant do you go all out and ask for the parmesan?

I have no idea who these people are I'm just making a (sweeping) generalisation about the z-list, constant name-dropping celebrity culture that exists in many circles in Sydney.

If that was the issue, why didn't he say that. Bruce called them out for name-dropping, when they weren't. You can't defend Bruce by introducing a whole bunch of other things they do which annoy people.

Agree it was weird that he said in reaction to that innocuous post, which makes one assume there is history there.

So yeah it is shitty of Bruce to not pick his battles a little better.

But these kinds of fringe celebrity trash don't need anyone's sympathy either...

Mick, why not? They're just people with jobs. Why the differentiation?

Maybe that was comment 97 of the year posted by Ewing with all the players at the Kings thinking not this idiot again...

PR man on twitter is a joke though. Surely you would send a text.

Actually the change to bring in Heal instead of Moose was a good one. Although I still see the largest capital city in Australia with poor attendance. Maybe the Kings should focus on getting rid of their 'lack of PR' manager. There is currently no place in the NBL for marketing managers at the club level. The clubs need multi-talented managerial staff. Any GM who needs a marketing officer probably needs to go.

You can't blame guys, still under contract next season, for not publicly backing AB's dislike of D and M on their bench etc. Bruce would have one more paypacket due from the Kings? Probably should have waited a few weeks altho he may not feel warm and fuzzy towards them either.

These D list celebrities do not make it look cool to go to games, and the reason being, nobody knows who they are. Maybe some parents who watch the show will, but that's it. They had the people from The Shire there, the most hated show, oh yeah sooooo cool to go to a kings game now.

Whether you like them or not doesn't determine their popularity.

Bruce would fit in nicely in Cairns...
Probably the only team he could go to after acting like an idiot (in some peoples opinion) and still be loved by the "orange army"