Alston, Nash and Barnes earns suspentions for Scuffle

[urunobili]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...s112316S84.DTL

The NBA has suspended Steve Nash and Matt Barnes of Phoenix and Rafer Alston of Houston for their roles in a fight.
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Alston and Barnes were suspended for two games without pay and Nash for one. The league also fined Shaquille O'Neal $35,000 and Tracy McGrady $25,000 on Friday for their actions during the Rockets' 94-82 win in Phoenix on Wednesday.

Barnes knocked back Alston with his shoulder late in the third quarter, and Alston charged him. Nash ran in and was pushed back by McGrady, who was shoved down by O'Neal.

Nash was cited for "escalating the altercation." He and Barnes will miss Friday's game at Sacramento, and Barnes will sit Sunday against Detroit. Alston will miss games Friday against San Antonio and Saturday against New Orleans.


Alston Won't play tonight...

[Hemotivo]

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=109716

[urunobili]

didn't see that one but oh well... since Alston is not playing i thought it could be on the Spurs section... please proceed to delete if not appropriate...

[z0sa]

Its appropriate I believe, as no Alston is going to help the spurs at least a bit.

[urunobili]

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=109716

also... not all Spurs fan go to that forum...

[Hemotivo]

Its appropriate I believe, as no Alston is going to help the spurs at least a bit.

brooks and barry will play more

[timvp]

also... not all Spurs fan go to that forum...

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=109661

[timaios]

brooks and barry will play more

Barry may not be available for tonight's return to the AT&T Center, though. A sprained right thumb, suffered in the Rockets' Wednesday night victory over the Phoenix Suns, may keep him on the sidelines. X-rays taken Wednesday were negative, but Barry said the thumb was swollen and sore on Thursday.

[Indazone]

meah, the way Alston has been playing lately it's better that Brooks is the PG

[Hemotivo]

meah, the way Alston has been playing lately it's better that Brooks is the PG

[dbestpro]

Dang! Our best hope was if Alston played. Now we are going to lose by 30 instead of 20.

[mojorizen7]

Barnes deserved one game not two.
Alston deserved one game.
Nash's suspension is a ing joke.
T-Mac deserved a game if Nash got a game.
Shaq deserved a game if Nash got a game.
Stern needs to go.
Suspensions in November don't mean .
Thats all.

[byrdman31]

sucks for nash, he got pushed down and he got the suspension. shaq pushes everyone and gets a fine.....

[urunobili]

sucks for nash, he got pushed down and he got the suspension. shaq pushes everyone and gets a fine.....

the NBA set the tone giving him one game for making the situation worse than what it was...

IMO both Shaq and T-Mac deserved a suspension as well...

[Thompson]

Barnes deserved one game not two.
Alston deserved one game.
Nash's suspension is a ing joke.
T-Mac deserved a game if Nash got a game.
Shaq deserved a game if Nash got a game.
Stern needs to go.
Suspensions in November don't mean .
Thats all.

Barnes started the whole thing, Alston was reacting to what he did.

T-Mac and Yao were trying to calm the combatants down when Nash decided to try to look tough and charged in, escalating the situation. Nash turned an almost harmless shoving incident that was over into a near brawl. Also, Nash was off-balance and probably flopped a bit to try to get rid of T-Mac (like he tried to do with Horry, even though that flop backfired).

Alston probably deserved fewer games than Barnes, but other than that they handled the situation pretty well.

[urunobili]

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=109661

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