“I’m going to kill you, motherf*ckers. I’ll see you after the game."
At the end of warm-ups, Pryor threw a basketball into the student section, where it hit an elementary school student.
Although he was quite busy with a basketball game, he was kind enough to take the time to repeat this threat at the student section throughout the game.
As the starting lineups were called, all of the players shook the opposing coach’s hand—except Pryor. He pulled his hand away and turned his head as South Fayette coach Rich Bonnaure reached out to shake it.
On the court, Pryor scored 24 points and had 21 rebounds. He also used a variety of racial slurs against the player guarding him.
After the game, the teams lined up for the usual postgame handshakes. Pryor went down the line and said, “You f*cking suck” to all the South Fayette players.
He then went over to the South Fayette student section and continued his threat of bodily harm and invited them to meet him in the hallway after the game, until a Whitehall policeman told him to stop, and his teammates finally pulled him away.
It is disturbing behavior for such a highly-touted recruit.
Two South Fayette students were ejected from the game for swearing at the refs. Shouldn’t the players be held to the same standard of behavior, if not a higher one? I have attended dozens of high school basketball games, but I have never seen another player’s behavior even closely resemble that of Pryor’s that day.
Perhaps more disturbing than Pryor’s behavior was the fact that his coaches and the referees allowed it to continue.
As lifelong Penn State fans, my family and I were very disappointed by what we saw in Pryor that weekend.
Pryor is obviously an amazing athlete. Everything that has been said about his speed and strength has not been exaggerated. Yesterday, in the WPIAL championship game against Beaver Falls, Pryor came up with 39 points, 24 rebounds, 10 blocked shots, and 6 assists. The win came just two months after Pryor led Jeannette’s football team to a state championship.
His behavior, however, leaves much to be desired. We can only hope that it is not too late for Pryor to learn some humility and decorum in college.
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