8:02 pm
Paul Pierce Fined $25,000 for Flashing Piru Blood Gang Sign
Paul Pierce was fined $25,000 by the NBA for allegedly flashing a Piru Blood gang sign at the Atlanta Hawks center Al Horford. During a game 3 playoff loss on Saturday, Al Horford hit a big shot, after which he trash talked Paul Pierce. Apparently, Paul Pierce didn’t like his yapping.
A timeout was called after the shot was made. As Al Horford walked to his bench, Paul Pierce moved toward center court, making sure Horford could see him, and flashed a hand signal in the air.
Los Angeles viewers immediately recognized it as LA’s Piru Blood gang sign.
Not sure how accurate this list is, but it does identify it as a Blood sign.
Here’s a ‘Blood’ on Bebo flashing it too.
Paul Pierce grew up in Oakland, California. No doubt he keeps roots in his Cali hood, but was he threatening Al Horford with some kind of off the court mishap? NBA Commissioner, David Stern didn’t go that far, but agreed it was strange enough to fine him, “I know it was unique. You can check the gesture and you can check what it’s usually compared to,” Stern said. “Our guys made the decision. I’m not into etymology of gestures.”
The Boston Celtics general manager, Danny Ainge, tried to diffuse the incident, but he may have made it worse by saying Paul Pierce is always flashing that hand signal.
“Every game what does he do?” Ainge said. “He does like, ‘Blood, sweat, and tears.’ That’s kind of his sign. Blood, sweat, and tears. That’s what he does every game. That’s what he does every single game during introductions.”
So he walked over to give Al Horford his personal affirmation signal?
I’ve been with Paul Pierce and the Celtics through the good times and the bad. If this is true, He, in my opinion, should be out for the series. There is no way a millionare should be throwing up gang signs.
blood sign? That’s funny, I’m pretty sure that sign has been used for decades to mean something along the lines of “a-ok!”
Lets be real, It is what it is, and Paul Pierce fucked up. That is a gang sign. That CLEARLY doesn’t mean A-ok.
That is crazy, what was he thinking? Clearly he wasn’t. Question is where was all that and where were his connections when “Made Men’s” people was stabbing him up back in the day at the Top Kat Lounge (I tink that was the name of it)?
To right - come on man? You don’t really think Pierce was saying “a-ok”? Who you think he is? Opie? He was throwin’ up blood and everyone knows it. He lost his cool . . .
What does it mean?
Grow up and leave that gang shit alone. You are a fuckin’ millionare. That was the dumbest thing you could have ever done. I would have rather seen you walk up to the guy and punch him in the face than to stoop that low. I am a fan of yours just like WOW and he is right you should have been gone for the series. Don’t become a Michael Vick or a Pacman Jones. You are above them. ACT LIKE THE PRO THAT YOU ARE.
It means next time you deke me and I fall to the floor fist me and give me a reach around .
Now that’s funny! lol!!!
Lets say he was tossing up Piru. Well hey all hw was saying is “ I am not going to fuck this up”. So basiclly he let him know where it was at. Like saying you know whats up so you know where you can bring it.... But By him tossing it up meant he was about his money and his first NBA Championship. PIRU. If you know what it means he did the RU thing Collect check Fuck a Bitch.
Please stop defending the tossing of a gang member sign by a millionaire. Millionaires have a duty to act like a millionaire. He was wrong that is it. PIRU has absolutely nothing to do with an NBA championship.
What does being a millionaire have to do with it? I agree he lost his cool and should not have done that but why does his bank account matter?
He is making tons of money and doesn’t have to be in a gang it is strictly retarded for him to ‘represent.’ Gangs are for stupid people who can’t be successful individuals. That is why they are called gangs.
I thought Paul Pierce grew up in Inglewood? He was born in Oakland, but raised in SoCal.
he was actually putting his 3’s up for Boston.
everyone here in The Bean does that…
even the Mayor!!
check it out…
http://www.bostonherald.com/track/inside_track/view.bg?articleid=1090907
To My Mother,
A millionaire has a responsibility to act like a millionaire. He stands to loose a lot more than the average person does. Would you want your Doctor throwing up gang signs before he examined you? I think not. Mike Vick didn’t want to act like a millionaire and you see what he lost. That is why his bank account matters.
ebony.eyes,
I hope that you are kidding. You really don’t believe that do you?
well if you never grew up around a gang then you would not know what a family it is. So if you dont understand the history of so called gangs, dont say they are not successful people. There Black people are called gangs to this day if they are just in large groups. The KKK is not considered a gang till this day. The Arian Nation not considered a gang. They are a Nation. So success has nothing to do with where you are from. Because there are good gang members Just as MR. Pierce banged on that young kid. Hey he just let him know… I am a millionaire, but dont cross me. Paul walked away because he was a millionaire but still let him know where is is from. And honestly he doesnt have to do shit cause it was not worth it. Yeah his millions. To that hey if it was that bad he got people that can do it out of respect and get him done. Thats PIRU. If you knew what Piru means. then you know why he walked away.
Whats the difference between a Gang and a Frat?
oh white people are from one and blacks are from another.
I AM A BLACK MAN AND I CAN’T LET THIS BECOME A RACE ISSUE. THEIR ARE ALOT OF RACE ISSUES IN THE WORLD AND THIS ISN’T ONE OF THEM. THERE ARE WHITE, BLACK, ASIAN ,SPANISH GANGS ALL OVER. THERE IS CLEARLY A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A FRAT AND A GANG AND IT IS VERY SAD THAT YOU DON’T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. WHILE I AGREE WITH YOU THAT NOBODY HAS EVER REFERRED TO THE RACIST KKK AS A GANG, AND THEY ARE, LETS NOT CALL PIRU A FRAT. WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO “LET SOMEONE KNOW WHERE YOU COME FROM?” HE SHOULD HAVE JUST WALKED AWAY. HE DIDN’T HAVE TO FLIP A GANG SIGN. THAT WAS VERY IMMATURE OF HIM AND HE IS VERY FORTUNATE THAT HE IS STILL AROUND TO PLAY IN THIS SERIES. THE ARIAN NATION IS CONSIDERED A GANG. I DON’T KNOW WHERE YOU GOT THE NOTION THAT THEY AREN’T A GANG. BY THE WAY, THIS IS COMING FROM ANOTHER PAUL PIERCE FAN AND A HUGE CELTIC FAN AS WELL. LEAVE THE GANG SHIT OUT OF ALL SPORTS NOT JUST THE NBA.
Seriously people, stop trying to make it what it isnt (Gang Sign).. And use your noodle(brain) and understand that it is a B for Boston. It’s just like how some people point with their middle finger, they’re not flipping you the bird, they just point with their middle finger instead of their index. Stop throwing fuel on the fire just because you want it to mean something else.
That is the dumbest thing I ever heard. “That is a B for Boston.” If you had a noodle (brain) you would have thought before you wrote that shit. Celtic fans that have sat in the seats at numerous games have never seen anyone do a B for Boston, Pierce included. He just fucked up admit it. He will make it right though, I know he will.
Who the fuck points with their middle finger?
Who cares? Everybody knows that NBA players are all a bunch of thugs anyway. Just because a guy is given millions of dollars and is on TV every night, it doesn’t make him any less of a thug.
I wonder if this was the sign that Larry Craig flashed underneath the bathroom stall?
A lot of common signs are co-opted by gangs. When George W. Bush gave an OK sign in Australia, it meant something salacious there - and a variant of it means “Blook Killer” in LA. BK also stands for Blood Killer even though for most of us it just makes you crave a whopper. “Hang loose” and that devil-horn sign that kids make at Ozzy concerts have both been co-opted by gangs.
But this one, I’m not aware of any meaning other than the Piru Blood sign.
But hey - the Bloods are against MS13 and MS13 has connections to Al Qaeda, so in a way it’s like wearing a flag pin.
Honestly? I think it’s something he saw in a rap video and wanted to look tough. I don’t think he gave it much thought. There was this Hall and Oates album with a bunch of symbols on the liner and it turns out most of them are also in the Necronomicon - but I doubt that if you played “Maneater” backwards it would say “I command you to spread the blood of the innocent” (I don’t know, my turntable’s broken - if someone knows otherwise please post).
I shudder to think that if a buddy and I stopped on our way through a poor neighborhood and patronized the local variety store to give something back to the community, and while my friend was on his way into the store I help up my hands to remind him “2 hotdogs and 2 pepsis” we could both have our heads blown off by someone who misinterpreted the gestures.
CELTS FAN, I AGREE WITH YOU BUT WITH THE MONEY THE HAVE THEY NEED TO GROW UP AND START ACTING LIKE MEN. THESE DAYS IN THE NBA WE HAVE GUYS LIKE ALLEN IVERSON THAT HAS OVER HALF HIS BODY, AS IT IS CALLED, “TATTED UP” WHICH BY THE TIME HE IS 55 YEARS OLD WILL LOOK REDICULOUS BUT MOST KIDS WANT TO BE THE SELFISH BALL HOG THAT HE IS. WE WONDER WHY THE NBA HAD TO TELL A BUNCH OF GROWN MEN HOW TO DRESS BEFORE A GAME. THAT IS BECAUSE, LIKE YOU SAID, THEY ARE A BUNCH OF THUGS. PIERCE WAS WRONG AND HE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER. HE CLEARLY ISN’T THE THUG THAT IVERSON IS.
kumi nation, 415 bay area blood
he was throwing up the b for boston and the three repersinting beantown so i think every one else is is over acting about it
Yeah right bean-town, he was throwing up a b forboston. That is why he got fined $25,000 because he was throwing up a b for Boston. Most of us are smart enough to know what he was doing.
are you kiding me?!?!
i do that in school
how did you do on your test? put that up okay!!
gayest thing ever
Did you see the look on his face. That clearly wasnt A okay. We all know wat it is so lets stop pretendin. U fucked up Pierce
to ebony.eyes:
thanks for setting these kids straight, Paul was “throwin them 3’s up”
It’s a sign of Boston respect
This $h!t is still crackin’ me up
To the people that are saying Paul wasn’t holding up a gang sign, are you either really dumb or protecting Paul? I hope that it is protecting Paul.
@ebony.eyes I saw that in the Boston Herald too. Some people need to see that picture of the Mayor doing it. If you do it with both hands and then put the two circles together the two circles form a B. Kendrick Perkins even said in a Boston Herald article that Paul Pierce does it all the time. Some people must not like Boston cause of all the Championships we have. For people who have never been to the Garden go to the Garden, look up at the rafters and count the banners, if you count right you’ll find that the Celtics have won 16 NBA titles. Thats more than any other team in the NBA.
yall are some faggots sayin grow up wit the gang shit. fuck yall let him claim his set. yall rich crakkas dont no shit about how he lived so dont judge the dude cuz yall are to rich and white to understand
u say its obvious he throwin up a gang sign an stop bein stupid, but it is a boston sign u dum fuck stop thinkin u smarter than other ppl wen it could b either one of the signs. i swear yall crakkas is dum always thinkin black ppl have to be throwin up gang signs if they put their hands up. if u still dont think its a boston sign look at the mayor like ebony eyes said an then suck balls wen u see how fuckin stupid u are
First of all you dumb fucker, I am black and with all your misspelled words in your post I can tell that I am much smarter then your ghetto ass. I have personally been to DOZENS of games in Boston and I have never seen anyone throw up that so-called B for Boston sign. Therefore It can only be a gang sign idiot. Get some spelling lessons you dumb ass before you call someone dumb asshole. Now who is the stupid ass now. Calling someone white when you don’t even know what the fuck your dumb, nonspelling ass is talking about. Damn you make black people look bad. Please don’t post again until you graduate from 5th grade dummy.
A I"M from houston and i moved to boston because my dads in the airforce and ass soon as i got here people were throwing up 3’s even the mayor was.. thats B-S pierce is a G with the rest of the big 3
THE mayor throwing em up http://www.bostonherald.com/track/inside_track/view.bg?articleid=1090907
There are a lot of different ways you can hold up 3 fingers without it looking like a PIRU gang sign. Paul is from Cali where the gang is located and we all know what he was throwing up. If the Mayor is holding up a gang sign it would be smart for him to just change the way he holds up his 3 fingers.
You are clearly “Malibu’s most wanted”
You ain’t got nothing to suck. You clearly are pretty stupid.
Now who ever said NBA players r all a bunch of thugs is totally mistaken. NBA players are not all thugs. Get dat right. Nd everybody is really over reactin about this. Even if he threw up a gang sign it is stupid to be fined 25,000 dollars. Nd i really dont think he threw up a gang sign.Nd im a girl who grew up around gangs 4 my life exspecially bloods nd then my boy friends in piru nd i really dont think he did that. But even if he did he who cares. Unless u r in a gang u really shouldnt be worried about this. Nd its not like he was disrespecting the man or anything. Im pretty sure the other man is not in a gang so it really shouldnt matter to him if he did or didnt throw up the sign. SO GROW UP ND GET OVER THE DAMN THING ND STOP OVER REACTIN ABOUT IT!!!!
Why don’t you grow up and get a boyfriend that is not in a gang. Make something out of yourself other than having a bunch of kids that the gang cant take care of.
THAT5 WHAT5 POPPIN MY NIGGA KEEP THAT B^ UP IN THE AIR AND LET THEM CRAB5 KNOW WHAT5 POPPIN KEEP IT 100 BLOOD
BLOODDOG, I give you credit at least you can admit what Pierce did instead of lying about it like all these other people. It is what it is BLOODDOG. Real men don’t hide and lie when they do things like this.
if u lived in boston then you would know it was b for boston people do it all the time just look for it
If you are from california like Paul Pierce is that is a PIRU gang sign. Look for it.
that aint B for boston or anything else. If it was he would of said it. Anyone notice that pierce didnt say what exactly it was?
pierce went to school wit my brother at inglewood high for those u dont know pierce is a blood known in LA firever if u from inglewood u will rep it all day and every day so chill yall non cali ppl
Know what NBA stands for. Need Better Attorneys. You can take the boy from the hood, but you can’t take the hood from the boy. He’s a banger and always will be. Boy personified!!!
That looks like a “shocker” sign to me
.2 in the pink 1 in the stink!!!!!!!!
Yeah Paul Pierce is a professional ball player, but you, just like him, just can’t ignore his past. IF he was a blood or is a blood, he’s a blood for life; so he can’t just walk away just because he’s making millions. Do you think that he’s the only player in the league from the streets or with street connections? It is what it is. AND YOU BEST BELIEVE THAT IF PAUL PIERCE WAS TRYING TO GET AT AL HARFORD, HE WOULDN’T HAVE THROWED UP THE B’S. IT’S A SIGN OF PEACE!!! (IF HE’S A BLOOD)
fuck all you bitch ass niggaz he be throwin up blood and i be throwin up blood none of you little fags no shit bout whats goin on so fuck you and leave the nigga alone he do what he want FUCK THE COPS and C’z down bitch ass niggaz
i feel u heff b’s up c’s down paul is real............ i got a pictrue of that nigga when he was in the 9th grade he still look da same but da shit is funny as hell
Leave that gang sign waving out of the NBA. Keep that shit on the streets where it belongs. Make your millions and leave them THUGS behind. Think of your family (wife and child) thats what more important to you. Most of those thugs can’t even speak real english. LET THEM GO PAUL…
i think its hilarious.
omg leave that gang shit outta the nba, eat a dick gary ya flaming homo fuck.
So sad, maybe some day you will grow up and leave the gang behind before it is too late. Yes, leave that gang shit out of the NBA. These guys are millionares and should act like it.
so what if he fucked up, paul pierce iz still my nigga and he iz putting boston and puiruz on tha map
yea thats right, 5 poppn 6 droppn and all yall crips can suck my big dick, boston mass iz in tha bulding
As Fred Sanford would say, “You big dummy!”