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You aren't listening to yourself then.The only whine I'm hearing is from needy Spurs fans not getting enough love.
Seriously, why are you here?
When the Sun player was running up the court and Elson was complaining to the official? Other than that, you can't be more specific at all. Some protest. Rosa Parks would be proud.It's actually more satisfying to be able to win and watch other fans whine.
The only whine I'm hearing is from needy Spurs fans not getting enough love.
You aren't listening to yourself then.The only whine I'm hearing is from needy Spurs fans not getting enough love.
Seriously, why are you here?
Christie suspended two games for fight
ESPN.com news services
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NEW YORK -- Rick Fox was suspended for six games and Doug Christie got a two-game ban for their roles in a bench-clearing fight during a Lakers-Kings exhibition game.
In Monday's surprise ruling, the NBA did not suspend any members of the Kings for leaving the bench during the brawl
Let the rationalizations and excuses begin!
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Their reasoning for the nonsuspensions in that preseason game: the altercation was in the tunnel and not on the floor.
Were Horry, et.al., in the tunnel so that exception could be invoked to make up for the stupidity of Amare and Boris?
If they were all in the tunnel fighting, then they should have expected to not be suspeneded.
Be honest with yourself. The ruling was an interpretation.
Be honest with yourself. The players weren't fighting in the tunnel.
I thought the term was altercation.
Do you say players were altercating?
Fox was fighting. I don't know if Doug was fighting or his wife was fighting for him.
I guess they weren't "altercating". Yeah that's the ticket. Horse .
That was a fight. Fights are altercations. Altercations are not necessarily fights. I know big words are tough for you, just like the concept that rules should apply to your team.
If you use "altercating" in a sentence, that's your issue.
The rule was subject to interpretation. You can agree or disagree that the interpretation was favorable or unfavorable. I could care less. The bottom line is as follows:
The manlove fest with LBJ's post game conference is nothing more that an indirect attack on Suns fans whom they perceive as having no right to complain about the league's interpretation of a rule that made San Antonio's path to the NBA Championship the easiest in NBA history and in effect creating the asterisk that, no matter what a Spurs fan will tell you, cheapens their accomplishment and ultimately lessens their enjoyment of a fourth* championship.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...53C1A9649C8B63
PLUS: PRO BASKETBALL; Fox's Suspension Is For Six Games
Published: October 29, 2002
Rick Fox was suspended for six games, Doug Christie was banished for two, and every member of the Sacramento Kings who left the bench during a fight with the Los Angeles Lakers got off scot-free.
In a surprising ruling yesterday by the N.B.A. vice president Stu Jackson, the Sacramento Kings were not punished as much as they might have expected for their part in a bench-clearing brawl during the first quarter of an exhibition game at Los Angeles last Friday.
Jackson ruled that because the players left the bench to join a fracas in a hallway underneath the stands, rather than on the court, they would not receive the customary one-game suspension for that offense. He noted that when the fight first broke out on the court, none of the Kings players left the bench.
Fox and Christie will miss their season openers tonight. Fox is not eligible to return until the Lakers' game at Washington on Nov. 8. ''Six seemed excessive,'' Lakers Coach Phil Jackson said, ''but they wanted to send a message that this is action they can't have happen.''
But it was a nice try.
The rule applies to bench players coming onto the court. There is no precedent for any player coming onto the court during an altercation having no suspension handed down on him.
I think you guys should just try to get that rule re-examined this offseason.
Oh wait.
All subject to interpretation.
I guess this finally helps me explain why the Suns fan wouldn't quit about the suspensions. Get over your team, they are not that important, people praise James for his class because he took the high road, not because it had something to do with the Suns.
The Spurs would have beaten the Suns regardless, anybody who say the games knew that the Spurs were controlling he tempo throughout the series except Game 2 and 4th quarter Game 4. The Spurs were 2-2 when two teams were full strength, and 2-0 when either one or the other team had players suspended.
Nobody remembers the Suns anymore, it is all but a footnote, asterisk if you will.
Get this in your head, the Suns are not so important that other teams obsess over them like you obsess over the Spurs, the Spurs do not revolve around the Suns, the league doesn't revolve around the Suns, they are but another 2nd round loser.
Yeah, the tunnel incident was, because there was no rule for mandatory suspensions on altercations away from the court.
He was lying just like Amare was about checking into the game.The manlove fest with LBJ's post game conference is nothing more that an indirect attack on blah, blah, blah
I don't like either lie. Just whine like Nash does. I repsect that more, relatively speaking.
And it still makes me laugh that you keep calling the ruling "arbitrary." A by-the-book ruling is, by definition, not arbitrary.
To steal a phrase from a previous Suns fan in this forum:
The power of the Asterisk is strong in this one!
The interpretation was arbitrary, in my opinion.
Could the interpretation have been avoided had Amare and Boris stayed on or next to the bench?
Yes or no.
Does 2+2=5 in your opinion as well?
The lying was sickening.
Sometimes I arbitrarily drive on the correct side of the road, and sometimes I arbitrarily pronounce words correctly.
I built a DVD cabinet the other day and I arbitrarily followed the directions on how to construct it.
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