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hicks from the sticks play baseball and hockey and you can tell me they don't get into more fights than do nba players?
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hicks from the sticks play baseball and hockey and you can tell me they don't get into more fights than do nba players?
Terry and Stackhouse should have been hockey players. Do hockey palyers nut shot each other?
They shouldn't suspend anyone, look at those fans in the background, they are luvin' it, especially that lady smiling next to the guy with his mouth wide open pointing at all the action.
Do you know how much tickets are to the garden? Unlike the palace, the people at MSG were probably too scared to get their designer clothes dirty.
you are right...I can't and wouldn't try because I think its wrong there too.hicks from the sticks play baseball and hockey and you can tell me they don't get into more fights than do nba players?
Bad sportsmanship is ing crap. JR Smith probably had it coming, showing up the Knicks like that on their floor, but you gotta learn to deal with that. There's always going to be jackasses in the league doing crap like that. Randy Foye pulled that crap on the Clippers with like 5 seconds left in a bitter loss for them (when they blew a 15 point 4th quarter lead). Desmond Mason pulled that 360 at the end of game 2 of the Spurs 2002 series with Seattle.
Karl and Thomas can both go themselves, using their players as pawns to rub salt into each other's wounds. I wish their asses would get suspended without pay too.
Wow, a Spurs fan will take time out from any topic on hand to talk about my beloved Mavericks. Thanks, we love you too. At least my boyz don't resort to biting like a little 5 year old girl.
We Spurs fans are just jealous of our teams complete lack of dumbasses.
Karl provoked the Knicks in my book. By leaving 4 starters in with a 20-point lead and a little over a minute in the game, he was attempting to humiliate the Knicks. And the Nuggets were still running the break and going for high-flying dunks after Thomas had pulled most of his starters.
These are not only human beings we're talking about, but elite alpha-dog athletes with a lot of adrenaline and testosterone running through their veins. To expect them (the Knicks) to just stand there and be humiliated by the Nuggets is unrealistic. People have breaking points. They have pride. And when you push people far enough, they will lash out. It is human nature. And it ain't ever going to change.
Which is precisely why you do not do what the Nuggets did. You do not continue to run the score up when the game is won. You do not rub your victory in your opponents' faces. You do that and you are asking for a beat-down.
I understand all the people saying that violence is not the "proper" response, but in a situation like this, it's a highly probable one.
I think we all can agree that there is plenty of blame to go around.
right, go tell that to shaq, reggie, jordan, barkley, kobe and all those other dumbasses who have gotten into fights...fights happen in heated compe ion, haven't you ever gotten so pissed off in sports that you wanna rip the other guy's head off? i can understand both types of guys, people like duncan who do their stuff quietly and people like shaq who have to be in the spotlight
please, it's basketball, these are men playing a frickin' game...if they can't take the *humiliation* even though they are paid millions to be on the court and not fight, then them, especially the knicks who should be humiliated just by their game, their coach and all the loudmouth idiots on their team...what about the flagrant foul? you think the knicks needed to do that because it was the start of their comeback? just like the cowboys game tonight, hall was *humiliated* by t.o. and proceeded to act like a little , roughing up everyone in the way
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Anthony may face stiffest penalty in wake of brawl
By Chris Sheridan
ESPN.com
NEW YORK -- About a minute or two before the Knicks-Nuggets brawl erupted Saturday night in Madison Square Garden, New York coach Isiah Thomas mentioned to Denver star Carmelo Anthony that it wouldn't be a good idea to go anywhere near the paint, according to a member of the Denver Nuggets organization.
The message was unmistakable: A hard foul was coming. And when it came, the NBA had its first full-scale fight of the 2006-07 season.
As it tries to stay in the race in the Western Conference, Denver now has a huge question to ponder: How long will Anthony be suspended? That's in addition to that other question they've been dealing with for a week: Is Allen Iverson coming aboard?
My first guess was that Anthony would be suspended for four games, a prediction I related to Denver coach George Karl after he reviewed a tape of the fight.
"I'll take the over," he said.
Anthony is likely to be penalized the hardest because he threw the punch everyone is going to see over and over again, a roundhouse right that decked Knicks rookie Mardy Collins -- the player who initiated the fracas with an egregiously hard flagrant foul against J.R. Smith on a breakaway with 1:15 remaining.
The Knicks were angry the Nuggets still had their starters in the game in the final two minutes despite a double-digit lead, including a 119-100 advantage when Collins committed his foul.
"They were sticking it to us pretty good, really giving it to us. J.R. had one dunk where he reversed and spun in the air, and Mardy didn't want to see that happen again in front of our fans," Thomas said.
Smith immediately jumped up and challenged Collins, and the fracas escalated when Knicks guard Nate Robinson ran into the fray. About 15 seconds after the initial foul, as players from both teams were clustered along the baseline just a few feet from Garden owner James Dolan, Anthony threw what appeared to be a sucker punch at Collins, decking him.
Anthony backpedaled downcourt after the punch, with Jared Jeffries nearly coming out of his shirt as he tried to chase Anthony down, and various people tried to stop Jeffries. All 10 players who were on the court -- including all of Denver's starters except Nene -- were ejected.
"From what they did, keeping their guys on the court, I knew a foul was going to come. It was a good, clean, hard foul, and after that things went down from there," Robinson said. "I've never seen a team up 20 keep their starters in. They wanted to embarrass us, and it was a slap in the face to us as a team and a franchise."
Robinson is certain to draw a suspension for his part in escalating the brawl, and likewise Collins for the part his flagrant foul played. The league might come down hard on Thomas, too, if it finds him culpable for instigating the fracas by ordering a hard foul.
But the biggest penalty likely will go to Anthony, who began the night as the league's leading scorer and was just 75 seconds away from wrapping up a 2-3 road trip on a positive note.
Now, he might be out until Christmas, and he might even have Iverson as a teammate by the next time he plays, although Karl didn't sound too positive about that possible development, either.
"I spoke to [general manager] Mark [Warkentien] yesterday, and he said it seemed like it was dying down. I didn't even bother calling him today," Karl told me before heading out the locker room door for the flight back to Denver, facing an immediate future without Iverson or Anthony ... and sounding convinced things are going to stay that way for a while.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/column...ris&id=2699963
I remember when a young AJ got into a fight with Van Axel when he was with the Lakers. Does any one else remeber this?right, go tell that to shaq, reggie, jordan, barkley, kobe and all those other dumbasses who have gotten into fights...fights happen in heated compe ion, haven't you ever gotten so pissed off in sports that you wanna rip the other guy's head off? i can understand both types of guys, people like duncan who do their stuff quietly and people like shaq who have to be in the spotlight
Dang, it sucks that this fight didn't happen a bit earlier, Melo is on my opponents' team i n my fantasy HTH league and he's so close to surpassing me with one more day of play. Anyway, I guess this will help throughout the season though because 'Melo is really helping this guy's fantasy team and he's in first and I'm second, YAY! Sorry 'Melo, I like you but stupid move...you should've at least taken out that , Nate Robinson
because he will not be mishandled.I remember when a young AJ got into a fight with Van Axel when he was with the Lakers. Does any one else remeber this?
Knicks fans should have punched Dolan. Now that I could understand and sympathize with.
wgaf.
its about time someone outside of the bobcat kickin spurs ass showed some emotion.
Good for compe ion.
Melo's a wuss for hitting someone's whose back was held, and then running like a . And Nate Robinson is the man for not taking any . He took Smith down like he was nothing
for those complaining about the nuggets rubbin it in the knicks faces.....its the knicks damn itwtf gives a .
Melo will get pay back.
Damn, how many people were still in the garden when that happened? That's going to be a lot of snitches to kill...
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