Kamiah Adams-Beal, the wife of Phoenix Suns guard Bradley Beal, has spoken out about an incident in which a fan was ejected from a recent game for booing her husband and leaving one of her children in tears
A fan crossed the line with comments that emotionally affected his family during the Suns’ 119-109 home win over the Washington Wizards last Saturday night, The Post reported
“Normally I ignore the nonsense, as I like to leave the circus to the clowns, but let’s clear this up. Being a fan is fine. A ‘Boo, you suck’ comes with sports. But disrespect is one thing. During the game, a ‘Suns fan’ spent the whole night booing my husband. I sent my kids away in the third period after several people asked me if we were OK and if I wanted to say something.”
However, the situation reached a “breaking point” in the last period and her children returned to their seats.
“The ‘fan’ yelled, ‘Trade this bum (expletives) for Jimmy Butler!’ My 6-year-old son, with tears in his eyes, asked why someone would say that about his dad,” she explained of the heartbreaking scene.
“At that point, security had to step in, or I was going to. Athletes are human. They have families. Be a fan, but be respectful. I hope this clears things up. I’m going back to enjoy my day with my family.”
Video of the fan being escorted toward the exit of the arena made its way to social media over the weekend, gaining more than 169,000 views for @MrAzSports’ account on X
The video showed the fan being escorted out of the building by an arena employee, and at one point he paused for what appeared to be an explanation of what was going on.
The text next to the video claimed that the fan was shouting “Jimmy Butler” and that was what caused him to be kicked out, although other accounts intervened that the fan had been saying much worse things.
Beal has been linked with a possible trade for the disgruntled Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler, who is said to want to end up in Phoenix.
“My wife was pretty cool about it, but my son is there. She won’t take any of that,” Beal said after the game. “It doesn’t matter if it was her, if it was my brothers, my mom, my dad, my best friend. It didn’t matter who it was, someone was going to respond. I’m not even on social media, so I don’t even know what he said. He probably said some wild shit, I’m sure.”
The only thing I see is my wife and my son crying in the front row and my wife turning around to yell at someone. That’s never good. Family comes before any of this basketball shit.
“I just wanted to make sure she was OK. Once security took care of it, we’ll be fine,” Beal said.
Butler was suspended indefinitely by the Heat last Monday for “a continued pattern of disregard for team rules, engaging in conduct detrimental to the team and willfully withholding services” after he walked out of practice after being told he would no longer be with the team.