Nick Calathes suspended 20 games for violation of league's anti-drug policy...

[SpursFan86]

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This sucks. While he's not a HUGE part of Memphis's rotation, he's one of their better bench players and does play a decent role for them. Memphis needs all the help they can get against OKC, and losing one of their main bench guys is the exact opposite of that.

Hopefully Memphis can at least rough them up for 5 or 6 games.

[SpurPadre]

OKC seems to always get someone looking out for them. Fuckers.

[Mouth is Bleeding]

That really sucks since his improvements have been pretty big for them occasionally getting SOMETHING going on offense on the perimeter. Of course Gasol coming back is the main reason they have the best record since January but Calathes becoming productive was one of those things that also helped.

It's used to mask PEDs and he is probably guilty but so is most of the league most likely. What great timing this is for the ThundeRefs.

Fuck OKC.

Up to Beno to step up now.

[Kawhi]

So the NBA can suspend this guy but not LeRoid or HGH Wade? That's bs

[heyheymymy]

pretty fuckin convenient for okc

[SupremeGuy]

pretty fuckin convenient for okcThis, tbh.

[SupremeGuy]

I doubt he would have been "caught" if they had slipped to the 8 seed.

[heyheymymy]

I doubt he would have been "caught" if they had slipped to the 8 seed.

exactly.

[Malik Hairston]

:lol Calathes is an awful player, tbh, he would have been eaten alive by OKC's backcourt..

Have we really reached the point of fearing the Thunder so much that we're outraged over a suspension of a bench scrub that would have had virtually no impact on the series?..

[313]

20 games for non PED use is p gay

[BatManu20]

OKC was going to win the series anyways. Hopefully Memphis can at least take em 6, but I think 5 is more likely.

[CGD]

:lol Calathes is an awful player, tbh, he would have been eaten alive by OKC's backcourt..

Have we really reached the point of fearing the Thunder so much that we're outraged over a suspension of a bench scrub that would have had virtually no impact on the series?..

This. Some of yall need to man up in here.

[superjames1992]

:lol Calathes is an awful player, tbh, he would have been eaten alive by OKC's backcourt..

Have we really reached the point of fearing the Thunder so much that we're outraged over a suspension of a bench scrub that would have had virtually no impact on the series?..
Sup, HarlemHeat37, tbh?

[superjames1992]

Any idea when LeRoid and HGWade are getting nailed, tbh?

[Malik Hairston]

Any idea when LeRoid and HGWade are getting nailed, tbh?

Virtually every player in the NBA is on PEDs, tbh..

The only players that get caught and suspended are the morons that mess up while masking it..

[SupremeGuy]

Sup, HarlemHeat37 (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=11597), tbh?My thoughts exactly, tbh. lol

[superjames1992]

Virtually every player in the NBA is on PEDs, tbh..

The only players that get caught and suspended are the morons that mess up while masking it..
Pretty much agree, tbh. :tu

[therealtruth]

:lol Calathes is an awful player, tbh, he would have been eaten alive by OKC's backcourt..

Have we really reached the point of fearing the Thunder so much that we're outraged over a suspension of a bench scrub that would have had virtually no impact on the series?..

[Sybok]

OKC seems to always get someone looking out for them. Fuckers.
Oh the irony from a fan of a team who avoided OKC last season because RW went down to injury.

[SpurPadre]

Oh the irony from a fan of a team who avoided OKC last season because RW went down to injury.

False equivalency. Go away.

[SpursFan86]

I didn't make this topic to go "Wow the NBA loves OKC so much that they intentionally suspended a Memphis player! How unfair!:depressed". I simply pointed out that Memphis was going to be losing one of its rotation players and it might hurt them a bit against OKC.

They weren't going to win anyways, but I want Memphis to give them as much trouble and grief as possible.

[cd021]

:lol Calathes is an awful player, tbh, he would have been eaten alive by OKC's backcourt..

Have we really reached the point of fearing the Thunder so much that we're outraged over a suspension of a bench scrub that would have had virtually no impact on the series?..

:lol very true if the NBA had some arterial motive they could have aimed a bit higher on Memphis' bench.

[thispego]

lmao "arterial motive" what's det?

[Sybok]

False equivalency. Go away.
Bullshit. The Spurs were the recipients of great fortune last year and now you're saying the Spurs always have bad fortune in these things? False equivalency my ass.

[Sybok]

lmao "arterial motive" what's det?

That's like a reason you'd tell people you own a condo in Breck.

[mudyez]

Nick Who? When I read it, I was like "Why is MLS stuff on the Spurs board?"

Then I googled a picture of him and now I'm like: "What, Dawson is playing NBA ball right now?"

[boutons_deux]

lmao "arterial motive" what's det?

for all intensive porpoises, I have no idea what that means

[Spurs 4 The Win]

Why the fuck is this guy taking tamoxifen, its a breast cancer drug........

[Malik Hairston]

Why the fuck is this guy taking tamoxifen, its a breast cancer drug........

PCT, my nigga..

[baseline bum]

:lol Calathes is an awful player, tbh, he would have been eaten alive by OKC's backcourt..

Have we really reached the point of fearing the Thunder so much that we're outraged over a suspension of a bench scrub that would have had virtually no impact on the series?..

It's not about fearing the Thunder so much as it is wanting them to have to fight through a difficult road that could wear them down some. You have to think Indiana took a bit out of Miami with that 7 game series while the Spurs rolled into the Finals rested and healthy off an easy sweep. When the Spurs and Thunder are pretty evenly matched, whichever team had more rest coming into the series could be just enough of an advantage. Think of the Lakers and Celtics in the 80s. Boston had brutal roads through their conference with Philly, Detroit, Milwaukee while LA could just plow through the soft west every year. You have LA and Boston switch conferences and maybe it's Bird 5, Magic 3.

[Malik Hairston]

It's not about fearing the Thunder so much as it is wanting them to have to fight through a difficult road that could wear them down some. You have to think Indiana took a bit out of Miami with that 7 game series while the Spurs rolled into the Finals rested and healthy off an easy sweep. When the Spurs and Thunder are pretty evenly matched, whichever team had more rest coming into the series could be just enough of an advantage. Think of the Lakers and Celtics in the 80s. Boston had brutal roads through their conference with Philly, Detroit, Milwaukee while LA could just plow through the soft west every year. You have LA and Boston switch conferences and maybe it's Bird 5, Magic 3.

Sure, but some scrub isn't going to alter the outcome of the series:lol..

If it was Mike Miller or Tony Allen, sure, we could cry about it..

[Mugen]

Beno's got this tbh.

[DD]

crofl arterial

[Malik Hairston]

:lol good thing Calathes is suspended, tbh, he could have never matched Beno's output tonight..

[Mugen]

Beno's got this tbh.

[exstatic]

:lol good thing Calathes is suspended, tbh, he could have never matched Beno's output tonight..

I know. NBA tries to rig, and gets their shit pushed. :lol

[jag]

:lol very true if the NBA had some arterial motive they could have aimed a bit higher on Memphis' bench.

That arterial motive tho