New York. - The San Antonio Spurs' guard Tony Parker tells Washington Post that he might drop out of the summer Olympics next month due to the eye injury he incurred a few weeks ago in a fight between R&B star Chris Brown and Hip-Hop star Drake's entourage at a New York night club.
"I'm seeing a specialist in New York with the hope of being given the all-clear to play in the Olympic Games... Anything can happen, including me being out of the Olympics. The decision doesn't belong to me anymore. It's in the hands of the doctor and San Antonio," as reported by the Washington Post.
Parker says the altercation resulted in shards of glass hitting him in the left eye. He suffers from a scratch to his retina for which he underwent surgery.
Last week, Parker filed a $20 million suit against the New York City Club, W.i.P NYC Club in Soho, in the New York Supreme Court in Manhattan for the eye injury he incurred during this fight. He claims that the club was irresponsible and lax in its security which allowed the fight to take place and resulted in Parker's "corneal laceration of the left eye and other injuries," as reported by the New York Post. He is currently undergoing treatment for the injury.
The fight between Brown and Drake's crew took place earlier this month when Brown was stopped by Drake's entourage, angry words were exchanged which soon escalated into a full-fledged fight that involved throwing bottles around the club injuring at least eight people. Both Brown and Drake have had a romantic attachment to singer Rihanna, which is cited as the underlying cause of belligerence and animosity between the two.
Parker does not mention the either Brown or Drake in his petition. According Parker's lawyer David Jaroslawicz, "the defendants were reckless, careless and negligent in permitting Drake's entourage and Brown's entourage to be in the club the same time despite known tension between the two.... She (Rihanna) has been known, like Helen of Troy, to cause trouble," as reported on MTV.
