As a huge Georgia Tech fan, it comes as sombering news to me to hear that Will Bynum, one of the better players on Georgia Tech’s near National Title basketball team, ran over a civillian in Israel after an apparent spat at a nightclub. The details below:

Police believe that Bynum arrived at the G-Spot nightclub just before midnight on Friday to celebrate his 25th birthday. He was accompanied by his brother and was joined by a few friends, including his Maccabi Tel Aviv teammate and former Philadelphia 76ers star Vonteego Cummings. Police say there were also players from other teams at the nightclub, which is popular with professional athletes.

“During the course of the night,” the officer in charge of the investigation, Rafi Regev, said, “some sort of spat developed between Bynum and another group at the nightclub - members of the Hebrew Israelite Community in Dimona.

Bynum rejected the youths’ claim that the argument began when he made advances toward a woman from the Dimona group. Bynum said he was provoked into a scuffle when one of the group pushed him over. The scuffle quickly died down and the club’s security staff were not called in. When Bynum, his brother and Cummings left the club at around 5:30, however, he was greeted outside by five youths from Dimona, and within minutes fists and stones were flying. According to eyewitnesses, Bynum and his brother ran to his car, which was parked nearby, got in and drove toward the group. After hitting one member of the group, Bynum sped off.

I’ve attached a highlight of Bynum above, trying to remember better times. I don’t condone what he did, but it’s hard to not at least try and support some of your favorite players (as bad as it sounds, I’m still kind of partial to Vick).

I wish the man who was hit the best in his recovery. As for Bynum: Leave Israel and come back to Tech. We need you. Bad.