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Jalen Brunson might not have been the only person who dealt with the vitriol of a Spurs fan.
A man potentially involved in an incident with Brunson late in Wednesday’s Knicks win in NBA Finals Game 1 against the Spurs, allegedly “harassed” one of the viral female Spurs fans during a previous game at Frost Bank Center.
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The NBA is investigating the incident, which reportedly involved two fans using profanity and making “flopping” remarks toward Brunson.
But a woman, who goes by @bluebeari3 or Blue, posted a video on X showing a man possibly involved in the Brunson incident insulting her at a previous Spurs game. She alleges he “harassed and assaulted me and my friend.”
New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson has words with a San Antonio Spurs fan at the end of NBA Finals Game 1. Jason Szenes for The New York Post
The incident occurred during Game 6 of the Western Conference finals, according to James B., who identified himself as the manager for Blue and fellow viral fan Julie J. Swan.
In the video she posted, a man is seen leaning over a railing and talking to Blue and another woman with her.
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As Blue shifted to bring the man into view, he turned his attention to her and told her that “it’s absolutely disgraceful that you sit like that” and gestured with his finger toward her.
Blue asked the man not to touch her, and then he proceeded to tell her, “Everyone in the stadium agrees.”
“He came up to us at halftime and he was very suddenly in our face and we thought it was like a joke,” Swan told The Post in a phone interview on Thursday. “We thought we were on ‘Punk’d’ or something because he proceeds to tell us that we are disgusting, what we’re doing is disgusting and that the whole stadium hates us. He was just repeating that very, very aggressively, and then Blue starts recording him, and then he grabs her.
“She tells him ‘don’t touch me,’ and kind of shoves him off a bit,” Swan added. “He backs off a little. It was just very jarring and it happened all at once.”
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In subsequent social media posts, Blue alleges the man approached her and…
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