{"id":521226,"date":"2026-01-06T23:23:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/521226\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T23:23:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:23:31","slug":"former-michigan-state-basketball-player-paul-davis-apologizes-after-ejection-from-msu-usc-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/521226\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Michigan State basketball player Paul Davis apologizes after ejection from MSU-USC game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">EAST LANSING, Mich. (WILX) &#8211; Former Michigan State men\u2019s basketball player Paul Davis, attending the game as a fan, was asked to leave Monday night\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilx.com\/2026\/01\/06\/tom-izzo-gets-750th-win-no-12-michigan-state-mens-basketball-dominates-usc-80-51\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wilx.com\/2026\/01\/06\/tom-izzo-gets-750th-win-no-12-michigan-state-mens-basketball-dominates-usc-80-51\/\">Michigan State-USC<\/a> game at the Breslin Center after saying something to an official.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWhat he said, you should never say anywhere in the world&#8230; and that ticked me off,\u201d Spartans\u2019 head coach Tom Izzo said after the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Tuesday, Davis joined the Spartans at practice and apologized to the team, and Izzo brought Davis up to the press conference podium afterward to issue a public apology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cYesterday shouldn\u2019t have happened, but today needs to happen,\u201d Davis said. \u201cI\u2019m up here to take accountability, to own it. There\u2019s a lot of people that have known me, seen me here for the last 25 years, they know that\u2019s not me, but last night it was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">MSU hosts Northwestern on Thursday, and Davis said he will be back in attendance for that game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Stream News 10 on your favorite devices! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilx.com\/2025\/12\/18\/how-stream-wilx-tv-10-watch-listen-anywhere\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Here\u2019s how to download the WILX app on Roku, Fire TV or Apple TV.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Be the first to see the Mid-Michigan headlines you care about \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilx.com\/page\/download-our-app\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">download the News 10 mobile app<\/a> and subscribe to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilx.com\/newsletter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News 10 newsletter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@wilxtv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube page<\/a> to receive the latest local news and weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WILX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAST LANSING, Mich. (WILX) &#8211; Former Michigan State men\u2019s basketball player Paul Davis, attending the game as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[945,72183,7,4477,59793,268,142,2679,1739,11251,2612,3489,17,571],"class_list":["post-521226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-after","tag-apology","tag-basketball","tag-davis","tag-ejection","tag-from","tag-game","tag-local-news","tag-michigan","tag-msu","tag-paul","tag-spartans","tag-state","tag-usc"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115850733649524776","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}