Metta should have been given a choice. Suspended for the playoffs or forced to be on Dancing with the Stars...
Artest Suspended
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He needs to be thankful that he is playing for the NBA's chosen team, the lakers. If he were still in Indianapolis, he would be done for the rest of the year, and part of next year...Don't even get me started on if he were still with the Rockets or Kings.
He deserved a 25 game suspension. With his past, that isn't enough punishment.
The idiot who hit Chicago BlackHawk Marion Hossa, Raffi Torres of the Coyotes, with his past, deserved to be banned for one full season.
And to think that Torres didn't receive a game time penalty, but Quenneville was fined $10,000 for complaining about the refs after the game, and the refs needed instant replay to call a foul on Metta World War (Peace).
Count it up. 5 mistakes in two incidents.
No one got it right.
That's a ludicrous argument. Players bump into each other all the time during the transition under the basket. It's going to happen when you get ten large human beings in a limited area. What doesn't always happen is some psychpath a-hole deciding to try and kill someone with an elbow to the head. All James Harden was doing was moving to the outlet area for the pass.
I'm usually somewhat forgiving when it comes to stuff like this, but this guy has established himself solidly as a detriment to the game, and should go. No question in my mind.
Harden wasn't just moving to get the outlet pass. He was moving to bump Artest. He does this regularly, just trying to antagonize guys a little. He did it to Pau earlier in the game. He just picked the wrong guy to do it too, but I'm sure he won't make that mistake again. Harden didn't deserve to get a cheap shot like that, and Artest should be suspended but saying he should be kicked out of the league is ridiculous.
If he played for the Kings, and the elbow doesn't happen during the Sunday afternoon national broadcast, the incident probably gets 1/10th of the attention and he probably only gets five games, but keep up the conspiracy theories.
You don't get ready to to take the inbound pass by crossing your arms in front of your body and sliding into the path of a moving player. It looked to me like Harden was trying draw a cheap foul. If it had been truly incidental contact, Artest's suspension would have probably been longer.
That said, it was an idiotic retaliation by Artest.
Wow, I'm shocked at home many people in this thread are completing going overboard on this incident. The rest of the year? Kicked out of the league? Are these the same posters who wanted Leonard Johnson kicked off the team for the late hit at UNLV?
It was a nasty elbow that deserved a suspension in the 5-10 game area. No more or less. Elbows happen in basketball. He's not the first to throw one, and Harden isn't the first to catch one. Karl Malone threw elbows all the time and even knocked David Robinson out cold and I don't remember hearing anyone say he should have been kicked out for the year. It's a physical sport, **** happens.
It was a nasty elbow that deserved a suspension in the 5-10 game area. No more or less. Elbows happen in basketball. He's not the first to throw one, and Harden isn't the first to catch one. Karl Malone threw elbows all the time and even knocked David Robinson out cold and I don't remember hearing anyone say he should have been kicked out for the year. It's a physical sport, **** happens.
And how many games would that be? In theory, he could miss the rest of the year and 1 or 2 games next year.
You don't watch or pay attention to the NBA do you?
Watch this. And than guess how many games he was suspended for while playing for a crappy team.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uSZ-Wjgv1c&feature=relmfu]Jason Smith's Flagrant Foul on Blake Griffin (ENTIRE PLAY) - YouTube[/ame]
The one correct thing in that statement is that it was a nasty elbow that deserved a suspension. Elbows happen, but typically within the flow of the game. This was nowhere near a basketball play. It was a violent act by a person with a well documented violent history. Enough is enough. Boot the guy before he does any more damage.
boot him? come on now. I don't like Artest at all but the suspension is fine and anything more would be over the top.
No doubt he meant to throw the elbow, I just think he meant to throw it in the body to get Harden off him and connected to the head. Regardless it shouldn't happen and deserves a suspension. Normal player would get 3 games but he's not a normal player and gets 7 games.
Should Rodman have been kicked out of the league for all he did? Kicking a photographer in the nuts?
