11:17  ,  February 2, 2021

NBA game suspended due to incident between LeBron James, fan

Defending champions Los Angeles Lakers beat the Atlanta Hawks 107-99 on the road in the regular season of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

But during the second quarter, the game was suspended after an incident between Lakers’ leader LeBron James and a woman sitting in the front row. Subsequently, this woman and her friends were asked to leave the arena, after which the game resumed.

It turned out later that this woman was the wife of an Atlanta businessman. She said the verbal altercation began after LeBron complained about her husband. After that, the woman harshly demanded him to shut up, but which did not go unanswered.

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