KG officially suspended..

[lurker]

[cobbler]

The players would adapt.

It's the same across the board in all sports. You can't throw knockdown pitches without warnings and ejections. You can't level a quarterback unless you tip toe in and announce your arrival. The bench clearing brawl in hockey is a relic of the past.

The $$$ being paid these players now compared to then is absurd and it's the owners and the leagues protecting their players and images.

And in a PC world where nobody can tell an off color joke without being labled a racist and nobody can laugh at themselves.... image is everything.

[DPG21920]

There is a difference in physical play and fighting. I don't want to watch a boxing match.

[TIMMYD!]

He deserves it for his pussy antics.

[benefactor]

There is a difference in physical play and fighting. I don't want to watch a boxing match.

Exactly. I am all for them letting more contact go on the court. Elbows to the head on the sideline during a dead ball? Not so much.

[gm5k]

LOL wow the more I think about it I'm gonna miss this guy when he's gone. he's so ridiculous. truly a caricature of himself.

[baseline bum]

There is a difference in physical play and fighting. I don't want to watch a boxing match.

I liked seeing Greg Kite get his ass kicked after clotheslining James Worthy and Bill Walton coming to bodyslam Ralph Sampson after Sampson started throwing punches at Jerry Sichting for having the nerve to try to deny him position on a break.

[Amarelooms]

KG is truly a POS sucker....too bad he actually won a ring. Idiot

[JamStone]

The league is stupid most of the time but this suspension was completely justified. Elbow to the face. If everything happened exactly the same except KG doesn't throw that second elbow, I don't think he gets suspended. Anyway. KG is such a ing punk .

[hitmanyr2k]

It's deserved. Dude was in the middle of a heated crowd throwing elbows. If he hits the wrong person it's the Pistons/Pacers brawl all over again If KG isn't suspended you probably have players looking for retaliation in Game 2 and things could get uglier.

[DazedAndConfused]

HarlemHeat is a RAPIST

[cobbler]

weak..

I find it quite hypocritical for someone who sits on his moral high horse and spews the racist and rapist comments on a daily basis to condone violence.

Ohhhh wait... I get it... A Laker wasn't involved!

[Ashy Larry]

Could anyone imagine the 84, 86, or 87 Finals under today's rules?

With Kareem, A.C. Green, Bob McAdoo and Mychal Thompson suspended, we'd have to turn to mighty Chuck Nevitt and Mike Smrek

[cobbler]

It's deserved. Dude was in the middle of a heated crowd throwing elbows. If he hits the wrong person it's the Pistons/Pacers brawl all over again If KG isn't suspended you probably have players looking for retaliation in Game 2 and things could get uglier.

Can you imagine if that elbow hit an assistant coach clean? Would have caused serious damage.

[HarlemHeat37]

That fact that Gobbler is comparing a minor elbow to rape and racism speaks volumes on his beliefs..not that we needed this thread to prove it, since he's made light of those subjects in every thread in which they've ever been brought up..

[LnGrrrR]

I expected a suspension due to the wild elbow. Can't say I'm against it really. Just have to hope the Celts can grab the W without him... I think they can.

[Bob Lanier]

I disapprove of suspensions as a general rule, but I can't really bring myself to care about this one. Boston.

[cobbler]

That fact that Gobbler is comparing a minor elbow to rape and racism speaks volumes on his beliefs..not that we needed this thread to prove it, since he's made light of those subjects in every thread in which they've ever been brought up..

So let me get this straight. You are saying it's ok to throw an elbow with INTENT to injure someone and that is somehow a lesser offense that squinting your eyes with intent to make a joke? Really? WOW! And you question my beliefs?


HarlemHeat is a HYPOCRITE!

[tomtom]

KG. Heat better take advantage of this

[JMarkJohns]

Yep.... ever since Alonzo used Van Gundy as a mop.

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

The fighting and hard fouls peaked when that guy (forgetting his name) basically ruined Rudy T's career with that sucker punch.

[JMarkJohns]

Kermit Washington... almost killed Tomjanovich.


The punch, which took Tomjanovich by surprise, fractured his face away from his skull about 1/4 of an inch and left Tomjanovich unconscious in a pool of blood in the middle of the arena. Players involved often say that right after Tomjanovich collapsed, the silence at the arena, filled with shocked fans, was "the loudest silence ever heard". Upon later inspection by the doctors at the scene, it was discovered that Rudy was actually leaking spinal fluid into his mouth, and that not only his basketball career, but his life, was in danger at that point.

[galvatron3000]

deservedly so...moving on

[mavsfan1000]

Good. Teaching that a lesson.

[duhoh]

That's bull . I hate the NBA's stupid no-tolerance rules on fighting. I can't think of a single playoff suspension I have agreed with since I started watching NBA basketball.

sure, but KG throwin too many bows!