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NBA suspends Stoudemire, Diaw for leaving bench

Just in case you guys haven't had enough basketball diaries since the end of the mav's run.

PHOENIX -- The Suns lost two players for one game, and the Spurs lost one for two contests in the wake of a series of incidents in Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinal.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs2007/news/story?id=2871615

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Yep
by the book.

by Longhorn on May 15, 2007 9:31 PM CDT   0 recs

I'm tired of hearing 'experts' talk about how
this was a bad move by Stern.  The rule is very cut and dry, he didn't have a choice.  They did however and they chose to leave the bench and knew the consequences.
If you don't have fun it's your own damn fault.

by cgolden on May 16, 2007 8:19 AM CDT   0 recs

i agree
but they should have also suspended you know who for this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y39nRO5keRM

by willamos2 on May 16, 2007 10:32 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

I saw that
but it isn't the same thing.  I see grey area on that one, but not on what the other two did.  

And no I didn't see grey area b/c I'm a Spurs fan, or even a basketball fan for that matter.

If you don't have fun it's your own damn fault.

by cgolden on May 16, 2007 10:58 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

If Basketball Were More Like Good Hockey Was...
The building tension and blow up last night never would have happened.

The next play after Robert Horry elbowed Steve Nash out of bounds and onto his butt, the Suns would put Jake Tsakalidis in the game and the next time Tim Duncan got the ball in the low post, he'd tomahawk Tim Duncan like his career depended on it.

Done and done.

But we won't be seeing that in the NBA or in the new NHL...the National Figure Skating League...because the dumb suits who run these leagues and who aren't fans in any way, shape or form have deemed such behavior unsuitable.

by patrickindenton on May 16, 2007 10:23 AM CDT   0 recs

let me guess
you like wrestling
Forget Johnny Bench, we got Gerry "the Jet" Laird

by ab03 on May 16, 2007 10:59 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

No Wrestling Fan, Me
Nope. No wrestling for me.

What I do like are sports that don't have pearl clutching, Miss Manners style rules about rough play.

The NBA has a white glove phobia of rough play. The league sends the refs forth with vague powers to enforce rules that can't possibly be properly quantified, leaving the enforcement of said rules up to the discretion of the referees.

NBA refereeing is getting clowntastic. Each crew takes on an increasingly significant unique character on how they enforce the rules, which essentially means that the game is played differently from one night to the next depending on the referees.

At the same time, the National Figure Skating League has ruined hockey by trying to make almost all contact illegal. That's been about as successful as I imagine banning body punches would be in boxing.

Contact and the resulting aggro are part of sports. The NBA and NHL need to put on their big boy shoes and step up and realize that contact is part of the game and that players ought to be allowed to play instead of being smothered by rules.

In the NHL back before Gary Bettman took it to the spa for a tweezing and a manicure, there was a balance...a sort of mutually assured destruction. You knew that if you ran an opposing team's goalie or first line center that your goalie or first line center was going to get scalped.

The NBA used to be similar as well. Instead of getting an automatic suspension because you got out of your seat and took a few steps onto the court to yell at someone on the other team, you knew that "the guy" on your team was going to Mahorn or Oakley or Laimbeer the next guy who drove the lane from the opposing team.

by patrickindenton on May 16, 2007 12:48 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

I, too am a Spurs fan...
... and think Robert Horry made a bitch move. That being said, they can't pick and choose when to apply a rule, especially since it has been rigidly enforced for 15 years now, and against some real superstars, too. I don't like the suspensions at all but I understand why they had to do it.

by Melmart1 on May 16, 2007 11:54 AM CDT   0 recs

I guess I wrote that wrong
for the record I'm not a Spurs or even a basketball fan.
If you don't have fun it's your own damn fault.

by cgolden on May 16, 2007 12:03 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

horry's foul?
hard, but it wasn't really worth a 2 game suspension.  look at the replay.  nash flopped a little and he's...small.  had it been raja bell horry did that to, it wouldn't be as big a deal.
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by gossamer on May 16, 2007 11:57 AM CDT   0 recs

ya
but if it was shaq instead of nash it would have been a suspension.  Doesnt matter how big the guy is... the NBA obviously sides with the big names more than anything else.

by dubman on May 16, 2007 2:11 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Because
Horry got two because of the Suns suspensions.  I also think the refs have lost the ability to limit the physicality of the series.  Thus, the league felt it had to step in.

by Joe on May 17, 2007 9:21 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

LMAO
David Stern is pwning Dan Patrick on DP's radio show right now. It's beautiful radio. Awesome.

HAHA, love it. Go Stern! (Never ever thought i'd say that)

by Longhorn on May 16, 2007 12:28 PM CDT   0 recs

Bullshit I say!
Obviously david stern is siding with his favorite spurs again.  Diaw didnt do anything but stand up take a couple steps then turn and head back to the bench.  Stoudemire about the same.  Neither of them retaliated they just got screwed over cause some rule gets taken too literally.  I dont think im watching the NBA anymore.  Hell basketball at all.  A game determined by refs and leauge officials is not a game.

by dubman on May 16, 2007 2:10 PM CDT   0 recs

The NBA
is rigged.

Doesn't everyone know this by now?

"The Leader is good, the Leader is great! I surrender my will as of this date!"

by thedirkatron on May 17, 2007 12:11 AM CDT   0 recs

Its rigged
because it enforces the rules on the books?
"The challenge we face today is not how to win in Iraq; it is how to recover from a strategic mistake: invading Iraq in the first place,"--ret Lt. Gen. Odom

by DJCahill on May 17, 2007 3:32 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

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