David West had heard this type heckling, a last resort from fans of opposing teams who understand their team has lost. Last week in Brooklyn — after the Pacers resoundingly beat the Nets, 103-86 — West responded to those hecklers with a reference to Billy King and the construction of a $190 million struggling team: “Blame the GM,” West wrote on Twitter.
“There were a couple guys that were kind of ripping us throughout the game. They sit pretty close,” West explained before the Pacers hosted the Nets on Saturday. “They were hollering at us. We hear that everywhere we go. That’s like the last option, when we’re about to win the game — like, ‘Y’all alright, but y’all ain’t gonna beat the Heat.’ It kind of gets on my nerves after a while. I was just kind of playing around with (the tweet) A lot of it was about us. There were a couple fans on the way out of the arena saying things about us, about where we were, about how we weren’t going to beat the Heat and all that type of stuff. Everybody has a problem with the way our team looks, the way we play. We were put together too, you know what I’m saying.”
