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Kobe is his own worst enemy. I don't feel sorry for him at all.
It's pretty obvious the league has something against Kobe, my question is, What and why? Looking back at the suspension for the Gino slap, I think the league purposely suspended Kobe to prevent him from playing in NY. Kobe lost a lot of money and the NY fans were geared and ready to cheer him on.
Why is the league out to get Kobe?
1. Is it because the League wants Wade and Lebron to be the media darlings of the league and Kobe is messing that up?
2. Is it because of his past legal problems?
3. Is it because Kobe had a chance to get the MVP this season and the league wants Nash or Dirk to win it, so they had to bring him down.
Kobe is his own worst enemy. I don't feel sorry for him at all.
Because he keeps elbowing people in the face on purpose, he deserves it
He deserves the worst, because he DOES the worst.
Who decides intent? Can they read Kobe's mind?
Now if you watched the college games over the weekend there was a player who elbowed the out of another player. THAT WAS INTENT! No questions. Now if Kobe did something like that, of course he should be suspended but just for trying to draw contact and flailing your arms for dramatic effect? That's Basketball!
The question should be what does Kobe have against white guys?
Updated: March 12, 2007, 3:45 PM ET
Bryant assessed flagrant foul for elbow in PhillyBy Marc Stein
ESPN.com
Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant is not and was not at risk for another suspension after elbowing Philadelphia's Kyle Korver.
League sources told ESPN.com that the incident was reviewed strictly to determine whether Bryant would be retroactively assessed a flagrant foul after his left elbow connected with Korver in L.A.'s 108-92 road defeat Friday night.
That review, sources said, was completed Monday and reclassified the hit as a Flagrant 1 foul, Bryant's first flagrant foul of the season.
In his first game back from a one-game suspension after landing an elbow to the face of Minnesota's Marko Jaric, Bryant extended his elbow as he tried to dribble away from Korver on the perimeter. No foul was called on the play.
The league does reserve the right to reclassify fouls or non-calls as flagrant fouls following a video review. But if this incident had been subject to a possible suspension,
NBA vice president of basketball operations Stu Jackson would have rendered a ruling before the Lakers' next game. Bryant was cleared to play in their 108-72 home loss to Dallas on Sunday night.
Yet he remains under close scrutiny, in the media and from the league office, after receiving a pair of one-game suspensions in 2007 for stray elbows.
In both of those cases -- first with San Antonio's Manu Ginobili, then with Jaric -- Bryant made contact by flailing his arms after a shot attempt. No foul was called by game officials on the Ginobili play; Bryant was whistled for an offensive foul after catching Jaric.
"As players, we know during a game when someone is trying to hurt you or be mean, and I never thought that was what was happening," Jaric told ESPN.com last week. "So I'm really surprised by [the suspension]. I haven't seen the replay, but if you ask me what I thought about the play when it happened, I don't think he did it intentionally, and I don't think players should be suspended for things that happen unintentionally. I think he was trying to draw a foul, and he swung his hand out to make it look dramatic, and he hit me by accident. He apologized right after."
Korver offered similar sentiments to the Philadelphia Daily News in response to Friday's incident, saying: "I didn't think it was that big a deal. I thought it was an offensive foul. After I saw it on replay, it looked a lot worse than I thought it was during the game. It all happens fast. It's no big deal. It's just part of the game."
Even though the Korver play has been deemed a flagrant foul, Bryant is not in immediate danger of being suspended based on ac ulation of flagrant-foul points.
Players receive one point for a Flagrant 1 foul and two points for a Flagrant 2 two, with suspensions starting when a player's total exceeds five points. Yet in spite of his two suspensions, Bryant's total now sits at one point.
Following the Jaric incident, which occurred just over a month after Bryant's tangle with Ginobili, Jackson told ESPN.com: "We considered suspending [Bryant] for multiple games. ... If this happens again, most likely, there will be multiple games.
"Since I've been here, I've not seen this type of conduct exhibited by a player -- driving his arm backwards and making contact above the shoulder -- I have not seen that."
Marc Stein is the senior NBA writer for ESPN.com. To e-mail him, click here.
What about the black players he elbowed? Bibby, Wade, Bell just to name a few? This is ridiculous.
So he's elbowed six guys? You just answered your own question.
He keeps doing it over and over again. I wasn't pissed when it happened to Manu, only because I believed it was an accident. Turns out he does this crap all the time trying to draw contact, so him. He's going out and hurting people guarding him just so he can flop for a trip to the ft line. I hope he gets suspended every time he does it.
all the black players beat his ass......
Bell, Childs..... ETC ETC
I do think the league is after him though.....
Didn't Lebron clothesline Wade a couple months ago without so much as a fine?
No doubt he does it to draw a foul. Big deal, a lot of players do it.
His little flings are hardly an act to hurt someone. It was stated before that some players have reputations for throwing hard elbows. Drob, Malone, Shaq to name a few. Those are to hurt someone. Malone was famous for the knee to the groin in his career.
I didn't see any of those players beat his ass. Bibby cried like a little when he was elbowed.
I didn't see any of those players beat his ass. Bibby cried like a little when he was elbowed.
thats because kobe elbowed him and they called the foul on bibby..... wouldnt you be a little bit mad if you got elbowed in the face and then they call the foul on your face?
His are little slaps. Okay, I will stipulate that I can not but most of his fouls have been on last second shots when the game is on the line. If he can't get the shot off he has to try something.
I would love to give you a little slap right now.His are little slaps.
Sure I would but Bibby's foul was a do or die situation at the time and he did it to prevent Bibby from getting the ball.
You could but I slap back!
Not if I slapped you like Kobe.
KOBE!!! RACIST!
If you slapped me like Kobe, I would probably laugh at you.
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