David Dennis Jr.

Where were you when one of the craziest scenes to ever go down in the NBA happened on November 19th, 2004?

So this made a surprise.

So Davidson College, like Davidson, North Carolina, like there's a community on the other side of the tracks, like a very black community that, you know, folks there.

Like, it's people might not think about that at Davis. Right. So there's also this place called the Ada Jenkins Center, right? And there's a boys and girls club and it's there for the folks of the kids in the community. So I was doing some volunteering there and they were having a program and I went down and

DJed this program, right? Like I was DJing this like dance for these kids and like I was feeling

good, really good about these kids, really good about the future. I went home, went to my dorm.

Freshman year, Davidson went to my dorm to go to sleep, just turn on the TV to see what's going on.

And I'm watching Sports Center running through the high, I guess highlights.

I don't even know, like, of the malice at the palace.

Welcome to the broadcast, Steve Berthume, Steve Levy along the way.

It wasn't a brawl in Detroit Friday night.

It was a full-scale riot. And one of the ugliest incidents of player fan violence that we've ever seen in this country. I mean, this is pre-social

media, right? There was like basically Facebook had just started. There was MySpace, but there was no

Twitter, really. There was nothing that I could like pick up my phone and be like this was what like maybe one of those last big moments.

There was no tap in element at that stage of the culture.

I had to look this up, but I do remember specifically that it was a Friday.

And the reason I remembered it was a Friday is because at that point of my life in college,

I was a pretty serious sports writer.

I didn't, like, go out on Friday at Happy Hour.

I was typically at a game, whether it be a basketball game,

or in this case, it was a hockey game at Miami University.

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