A middle school basketball player gets body-slammed so hard he tears ligaments in his knee and ends up on crutches. The kid who slammed him down on the court faced no consequences at school…absolutely none.
The family of the injured player files criminal charges.
The case is dismissed.
And the other family walks out of the courtroom laughing.
Forget the ruling for a moment. There is something deeply wrong when a child is seriously injured—and the people responsible can still find something funny about it.
That isn’t sportsmanship. It isn’t accountability. And it certainly isn’t something to laugh about.
We all know injuries happen in sports, but that isn’t what happened here. The kid in this video literally picked up his opponent and slammed him to the ground.
What rule allows that in basketball?