Artest to be suspended for Game #2

[greyforest]

dammit that's my vid cap, take it off right now, cause we are not supposed to link that stuff here

its not a "vid cap", its just an animated .gif

there are plenty of people here with animated .gif sigs from the NBA, i think they are just fine. they are not like .mpg or .avi


that being said i'd like to see an animated .gif of the bow that gino gave artest as well, and compare them. its pretty obvious that artest's is intentional, but i want to see gino's.

[NASpurs]

Who's ailene voisin and why did you post a pic of howard stern?

by the way senorspur, malone got a one game suspension for hitting David.

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39121

Read the first post and the name of the columnist who wrote the article

[NASpurs]

its not a "vid cap", its just an animated .gif

there are plenty of people here with animated .gif sigs from the NBA, i think they are just fine. they are not like .mpg or .avi

No Kori said we can't post stuff like that here. She deletes posts that have them because the NBA is in hunt down mode when they find something like that.

[SpursWoman]

I posted it here 12 hours ago (the gif), but it was taken down

12 hours ago I was asleep and didn't see it. And I wasn't interested enough in that other forum to read the whole thread. So, I'm sorry you feel somehow slighted.

[Trainwreck2100]

its not a "vid cap", its just an animated .gif

there are plenty of people here with animated .gif sigs from the NBA, i think they are just fine. they are not like .mpg or .avi


that being said i'd like to see an animated .gif of the bow that gino gave artest as well, and compare them. its pretty obvious that artest's is intentional, but i want to see gino's.

I don't care what the it's called, when it was first posted here the mod took it down

[MoSpur]

You Spursies are such Homers...You see everything through Silver & Black lenses...Even Coach Pop knows that this suspension is ridiculous, Artest gets s ches & “HE” gets a suspension? HOW FAIR IS THAT?

BTW- Ailene Voisin is one of the finest sports writers in America...She is objective & yes she is HOT!

You have to be joking. From that picture she looks nothing close to hot. Oh yeah. The suspension was not too much. It was just right. The dude has to learn his lesson, which I doubt he will.

[greyforest]

No Kori said we can't post stuff like that here. She deletes posts that have them because the NBA is in hunt down mode when they find something like that.

guess they gotta go through everyones sigs and remove everyone's animated .gifs

like the bowen flying karate kick, the wallace dunk with the cheesy lightning-bolt effect added, etc

pretty ridiculous though. pictures are ok but animated .gifs arent? can we just post a series of pictures, frame by frame?

[SenorSpur]

Ron got hit with an unintentional elbow, Ron then went after Manu this is retalitation and revenge. How fair is that? Ive seen people get worse injuries unintentionally but doesnt mean suspension will follow. The point is he did it on purpse and the NBA did what they had to. Cant blame the Spurs for the NBA's action. Besides have you seen the Kings site they are looking through purple and gold as well.

Well said.

Also, you didn't hear of Manu calling up Stu Jackson to lobby for the suspension (a la Ray Allen) and you didn't hear of Peter Holt sending replay tapes to or contacting the NBA office to " and moan" (a la Cubano).

This is the NBA's action only - not the Spurs.

[HAHA-That'sYourTeam??]

if it was karl malone this would never happen. i think this is all about reputation. thats bull . but i think the game tomorrow will be that much more compe ive trust me.

Karl Malone should have been suspended many times as well. I agree that Artest deserves the suspension - he's a nut who has been told enough times to "behave" and yet doesn't do it. And don't give me this crap about Manu's elbow. It was a loose ball and Artest went in face first, that happens - but let the refs handle it. Retaliation will get you in trouble in any sport. What I don't like is that the NBA treats repeat offenders differently. Karl Malone used to elbow people in the head and go for lay-ups with his knee driving into people's chest, but the NBA never did a damn thing about it. The NBA needs to now be consistent - if you crack a guy on the nugget or take out his legs or rack him in the nuts then be prepared to be fined and suspended, even in the playoffs. This is a multi-billion dollar business here, not a street corner in Harlem.

But with that said I think the NBA should decide what to do with Artest for the future and make that public. What about the next time he does it? Another suspension? Lifetime Ban? It's a good question because you can't just let a guy go around nailing people in the head INTENTIONALLY. That's the difference. People get hurt on accident all the time, but you can't try to hurt people on purpose. I say send his ass to Sing Sing Prison. See how tough he really is.

[infinite styles]

Forearms and elbow throwing to another players head will always get you ousted in the NBA. Kobe's been suspended, Malone, Kevin willis against PHO during the 1st round of the playoffs. Artest is just the latest. His was just overshadowed by the 34 point ass kicking that they recieved.

[NASpurs]

guess they gotta go through everyones sigs and remove everyone's animated .gifs

like the bowen flying karate kick.

pretty ridiculous though. pictures are ok but animated .gifs arent? can we just post a series of pictures, frame by frame?

Lots of sites have gotten warnings and have actually been closed down due to that. So yeah this site isn't taking any chance.

[gameFACE]

Yeah that gif on page 5 clearly shows it was intentional. Manu flopped, sure. But the blow was far from accidental. I agreed with the general concensus in that he shouldn't be suspended only fined. But when I saw the gif and considering his history it makes sense.

If this were the regular season I would be concerned about the Spurs facing an undermanned team coming off a high but they'll do fine. Game 3 will be interesting.

[SenorSpur]

Yeah that gif on page 5 clearly shows it was intentional. Manu flopped, sure. But the blow was far from accidental. I agreed with the general concensus in that he shouldn't be suspended only fined. But when I saw the gif and considering his history it makes sense.

If this were the regular season I would be concerned about the Spurs facing an undermanned team coming off a high but they'll do fine. Game 3 will be interesting.

Can we limit this thread to the topic at hand?

[NASpurs]

Yeah that gif on page 5 clearly shows it was intentional. Manu flopped, sure. But the blow was far from accidental.

We all know Manu is a flopper. But do you really believe he flopped there? Go play a game against Ron and see how huge of a man he is and let him forearm you in the head while you're trying to cut... let's see if your head doesn't whip back.

[greyforest]

Lots of sites have gotten warnings and have actually been closed down due to that. So yeah this site isn't taking any chance.

well its either all or none

there are plenty of animated .gifs around with nba content, they all need to go. lots of people have them, , look on page four at user "Cherry" - their sig has two animated gifs.

.gifs are in a grey area i'd say. they need to define the line for what is acceptable.

if a still picture is ok, then a series of pictures is ok. an animated .gif is nothing more than a series of pictures that animate in a loop. these usually contain about 20 frames.

going further would be full video, with sound (such as .mpg, .avi, things you find on google video, youtube, etc). this is obviously not allowed. but see how there are varying levels?

-pictures
-series of pictures
-animated series of pictures
-video w/ sound

it seems as though if pictures are allowed, then its ridiculous to not be able to post a series of pictures frame-by-frame, or an animated .gif of said series of pictures.

[sa_butta]

We all know Manu is a flopper. But do you really believe he flopped there? Go play a game against Ron and see how huge of a man he is and let him forearm you in the head while you're trying to cut... let's see if your head doesn't whip back.

Manu didnt even see it coming as mentioned before he didnt even have time to flop, he was coming around a screen.

[pache100]

Second, I can't believe any Spurs fans would feel sorry for this guy.

I don't feel sorry for him. Never said I did. And I'm done having my words twisted and reordered to suit other posters.

[Trainwreck2100]

Knevermind

[BigVee]

We all know Manu is a flopper. But do you really believe he flopped there? Go play a game against Ron and see how huge of a man he is and let him forearm you in the head while you're trying to cut... let's see if your head doesn't whip back.

No . How many of you who are quick to say he flopped have ever been going quickly to an offensive spot and been surprised by the forearm of a guy 6'7'' and 260lbs, with the intention of ing you up? Thought so.

[Mixability]

I can hear the Sac excuses now....

We would've won the series if Ron played GM 2......

Just fine him, don't go overboard.

[ChumpDumper]

My first reaction was the suspension seemed a little excessive, but it looks like by the rules he should've been ejected on the spot. In that case since ejecting him from a blowout loss wouldn't have been much of a punishment, throwing him out of the next game seems like a fair punishment.

I just think the refs didn't see the whole thing at the time, so they didn't eject him. When they reviewed it, they saw that Ron should have missed game time, so the league made it game 2.

[angel_luv]

Wow. I was not expecting this.

It never occured to me that Artest might be suspended.

When Gino said in postgame that Artest did not hit him hard- that it was just in the game contact, I considered the matter settled.

Wow.

[SA210]

Ron Artest shouldn't even be in the league, period.

[NASpurs]

Wow. I was not expecting this.

It never occured to me that Artest might be suspended.

When Gino said in postgame that Artest did not hit him hard- that it was just in the game contact, I considered the matter settled.

Wow.

Not surprising as Manu isn't Ray Allen. Manu takes his hits and doesn't complain.

[CosmicCowboy]

funny...looking at the gif it looks like Duncan whacked Manu with his left elbow a half second after Artest did...