2 games for being a repeat offender, 5 games for missing Miles

NBA peace prize 

He definitely gave Bridges a couple blows to the head when he had him in a headlock.

For sure got some hammer fists in on him it looked like.

hollywood level fight choreography

Melo got 15 for 1 punch, JR and Nate Robinson got 10 and none of them came off the bench to fight. Jermaine O’Neal got 25 initially and appealed down to 15 because of the chaos, Stern was 100% harder on fights than Silver has been

this fight was unironically how i realized grant williams is still in the nba

A littlebigliz reference in r/NBA? Magical

double upvote

get ready to learn 4 kon

Kalk will do just fine and its like our own fanbase forgets that Salaün has been great this year when given opportunity so we dont have much to worry about really.

Our schedule the rest of the way is a bit easier so I dont see us dropping four straight games so everyone is worrying over nothing I think

Yea imagine losing to Washington..

They just beat Houston pretty convincingly last week. There’s not reason to think it would have been a loss regardless.

This is copium lol. Yall were literally the hottest team in the league and absolutely would have had great chances against the league’s best teams. Tbh I feel like Melo/Miller/Kon still gives you a chance, the bigs just have to play really well

Please beat us

I keep seeing this complete certainty that we’d lose these games and it makes no sense. Using your logic, the hornets would have never won the last 9 games because they were playing teams they “should” lose to.

Dunno how hornets fans go on that win streak and immediately go “ah no big deal if we lose ⁴⁄₅ to close out before the all star break, we were always gonna lose those.”

Steve Nash ring🥀 :(

Yeah even if they suspended him I feel like it would be appealed and overturned

I assume they saw him leave the bench to calm down Diabate and not escalate the fight. 

Though I have seen players leave the bench not fighting anyone and still get suspended. NBA and their inconsistency.

Yeah but in the past it’s an automatic suspension no matter what. It doesn’t matter if you come out hold throwing peace signs and singing Joy To The World, it’s an auto one game suspension for leaving the bench.

Any spices in beef stew?

Dawg a literal child rapist is the president, everything is relative lol. And hes the most popular man in the South and Midwest.

And yet people are convinced it’s somehow localized to America as if the king of England hasn’t been actively protecting his pedophile brother for literal decades lmao. We are cooked as a species

Idk if there’s anything worse in the nba currently. Dude broke his ex wife’s neck in front of their kids and then on a separate occasion through billiards balls through her car window or windshield with their young children in the car.

Edit: mixed up my domestic violence NBA players. KPJ broke his girlfriends neck. Miles bridges is the one that beat his wife in front of their kids. Bridges choked his wife so hard he tore muscles in her neck, broke her wrist, her nose, fractured her eardrum, gave her such a bad concussion she lost consciousness.

Yes, but they should hold bridges more accountable, especially considering the fact that he’s on probation for a violent offense.

That doesn’t mean what he did should be tolerated

I think a significant amount of people it wasn’t back in their day, because they were much younger when Stern was still commissioner. They just don’t like Silver and know Stern was a hardass.

They all answer to the owners anyway. They won’t elect a new commissioner that constantly pushes back on the owners.

A lot of people think the commissioner is the end all be all when that isn’t the case.

David Stern would’ve NEVER suspended Ja Morant 25 fuckin games for waving a gun around on video, even if be was a repeat offender.

Stern liked Malone, they had a lot in common

It’s the stopping that from ever even coming close to happening again part that leads the large suspensions in the first place. I wouldn’t have been surprised to see 5-10 games for almost everyone except Duren who seemed like he had the wisdom to try and de-escalate.

“Big suspension” meaning 5 games or so. Not 20-25

I talked WAY too much shit for Duren and Stew to be out for our next matchup. I’m gonna catch it bad in the comments if we lose lol

MIchael Jordan raked Reggie Miller’s eyes and then punched him in the face–and he didn’t even get a common foul.

Stern ended up suspending him for a game only after media outrage.

Hand down, man down.

That only seems so long cuz they’re off for a week because of ASB and February is short

Probably because of Rudy

I saw Diabate head butt Duren. They were face to face and he smashed his forehead into Durens. Pushing that face away seems reasonable. Sure T him up for that. Diabate then lost control and started swinging … idk

Look at the headbutt frame again. Who was leaning forward and who was standing literally straight up at the moment of the headbutt?

The person leaning into the headbutt is clearly at fault.

Diabate hard fouled, got in Duran’s face, headbutted him, and then freaked out when Duran pushed him off.

That is 100% Diabate. What planet do you live on where you would let some guy step to you like that without pushing him back. Diabate was out of control.

I think it was mutual, they both head butted each other, Moussa was in Duren’s face so he palmed his face, then Moussa went nuclear and Duren walked away

The real question is why did they ever feel it was appropriate to suspend a first team all-NBA player in a pivotal playoff game for… stepping into the court.

Are we reading the same link? Not staying in the “immediate vicinity” of the bench = one-game suspension. While it’s true stepping on the court doesn’t automatically equal a suspension, I’m not sure how you can watch Melo run all the way across the court and into the altercation and think that’s in the immediate vicinity of the bench.