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Good. Dirk's a girl.
Dirk Nowitzki has been suspended for one game by the NBA for the punch he threw at Utah's Matt Harpring on Friday night.
Nowitzki will miss today's 2:30 p.m. game against the Los Angeles Clippers.
The league informed the team early today of the punishment.
The incident happened with 9:48 left in the game. After a scrum under the basket, Nowitzki, who had grown tired of the physical nature of the Utah defense, flung his right arm at Harpring. The refs called a flagrant foul, penalty 2, and ejected Nowitzki after reviewing the tape and deeming that the punch he threw was with a closed fist.
Good. Dirk's a girl.
stupid stern at it again.
Suspend Cryilenko for 5 games then and make him use his once a year pass on Rosie O'donnell
the "kobe arm flung rule" in effect once again.
What does AK have to do with Dirk throwing a fist at Matt Harpring?
Ak47's flop on dirk would have been enough to get ticked at the refs and take it out on one of the opposing players.
The funny thing is ive read that some Jazz fans think its good for the game
I don't think Dirk intended to hit Matt in the face, but he should know better than to try and get any kind of cheap shot in there in the first place. You're not on one of the chosen teams, fool. They won't just turn the other cheek and ignore it.
lol shut the up.
/He deserves it based on prior suspensions BUT ...KG 's taunting is more deliberate ...I dont think Dirk meant to connect I thought everyone thinks he is soft?
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3795991
Nowitzki suspended one game
By Marc Stein
ESPN.com
(Archive)
Updated: December 28, 2008, 1:14 PM ET
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Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki has received a one-game suspension for striking Utah's Matt Harpring in the face with a backhanded swipe Friday night.
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The league announced the suspension three hours before the Mavericks' 12:30 p.m. PT Sunday tipoff against the Los Angeles Clippers at the Staples Center. The Mavericks were not informed of Nowitzki's enforced absence until Sunday morning.
The league office began reviewing Nowitzki's flagrant foul/penalty 2 on Harpring on Saturday. The foul resulted in Nowitzki's ejection early in the fourth quarter of Dallas' 97-88 defeat on Friday night.
After a similar incident involving Boston's Kevin Garnett and Milwaukee Andrew Bogut in November, resulting in a one-game suspension for Garnett, NBA executive vice president of basketball operations Stu Jackson told ESPN.com that league rules make a suspension automatic "when a player swings or punches with a fist or open hand, regardless if it makes contact or not."
With that in mind, the Mavericks were bracing for a suspension, but were hopeful that a ruling would come Saturday, as opposed to the morning of a lunchtime game.
Nowitzki was ejected for swinging his arm in response to under-the-basket contact from Harpring. Video replays confirmed that although it was a backhanded swipe, Nowitzki made a closed-fist connection with Harpring's face on his follow-through.
It's the second successive season that Nowitzki has been suspended after an incident in Utah. A rough takedown in March of Jazz forward Andrei Kirilenko -- for which Nowitzki was not ejected -- also resulted in a one-game suspension.
The one-game suspension this season will cost Nowitzki 1/110th of his $18,077,904 salary, which comes to $164,344.58.
Nowitzki did not speak to the media Friday after the game and declined comment when reached Saturday. But team officials confirmed that their star player was interviewed Saturday by league officials for his account, since every flagrant foul/penalty 2 is reviewed by Jackson's office.
Mavs coach Rick Carlisle told reporters in Salt Lake City on Friday: "It appeared to me to be accidental, but they said his fist was closed, so it was an automatic flagrant two. They went to the video. I said it wasn't intentional. They said it didn't matter. ... I don't think the intent was to strike Harpring in the face. Dirk doesn't have any pattern of that type of stuff. It was a microcosm of the night, really."
Complaints about Utah's physical play, especially at home, are nothing new.
Harpring, however, insisted that Nowitzki "just turned around and threw a nice little punch."
Said Utah forward Kyrylo Fesenko, whose offensive rebound over Nowitzki preceded Nowitzki's tangle with Harpring: "I get the rebound. I maybe push him in the back a little. Then probably Matt pushed him a little. I don't think it was something really brutal. It happens all the time."
Marc Stein is a senior NBA writer for ESPN.com.
I'd like to smack Matt Harpring too.
the jazz. Kryilinko and Harpring.
So a has a hissy fit...BFD.
Last edited by de Soto; 12-28-2008 at 03:43 PM.
wow what a piece of flopper
Piece of , all of utah jazz are dirty mormons.
The suspension is BS, but so is that video. Whiny fans can put any play into slow motion and then cry that the other team committed a foul.
Dirk shouldn't have been suspended or probably even ejected for that - but he still got outfought for a board and threw a hissy fit.
sons even though I agree with Dirk's side on this situation, he still deserves the suspension for his past hissy fits and flopping. Kryilinko stole that move from Dirk himself
Kirilenko has always been the king of the most ridiculous flops. He's on another level.
The suspension is BS but a good time for JHo to pick up his production in front of the Clippers so they can swap him for Kaman.
I missed that game but WTF would Dirk throw a punch at Harpring of all people???? hahahaha
If Dirk's a girl, Kirilenko is a pussy doing flops
Yeah The Jazz are ghey.
i can understand the call on dirk, there are rules and you should be consistent. didnt look intentional but there was cause for concern.
but by the same token, arent they supposed to have cracked down on flopping? Isnt AKs flop a crystal clear case of a player deceiving the official intentionally? then when they do enforce it, we'll be thinking why now and not then...
stu jackson is a complete idiot
Yeah the Jazz the suck.
The Jazz are made up of a bunch of soft gots.
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