Three demerits, and you’ll receive a citation. Five citations, and you’re looking at a violation. Four of those, and you’ll receive a verbal warning. Keep it up, and you’re looking at a written warning. Two of those, that will land you in a world of hurt

I’m just here so I won’t get fined.

Je suis juste la pour ne pas avoir d’amende.

“BALL DON’T LIE”

“did a good job of executing” all time Westbrook interview

Was that not the elbow lmao

I’d say the elbow to Naz Reid’s throat was a pretty big first domino

Pfff, who cares about some stupid star?

Depends on if the league has the balls. The NHL just fined the coach of the Veags Golden Knights 100,000 dollas and took their second round draft pick away for bypassing the media. They had already warned them. So who knows what the consequences could be.

Konnichiwa

Nô háblà

This is French after all

“Je suis juste là pour éviter une amende”

I’m just here so I don’t get warned

I’m thankful

Or the Marshawn in French

“Je suis juste là pour éviter une amende.”

I was thinking the same thing. But they still fined him.

Fine him?

Double warning.

Rules don’t really matter.

Yep. His keepers.

That and anything that impacts gambling. Because that’s where the money comes from.

Quite literally no, Wemby was ejected from that game, I hate the narrative that he got no punishment there

That’s a suspicious flair for a reply such as this

No penalty

He was ejected from the game

Edit: OP edited the comment and removed his Thunder flair lmfaoo

Refs are also paid to ref, doesn’t stop them from not doing their job

And people pay to watch properly reffed games.

May he without the elbow cast the first stone.

The fact that its radio silence and is taking time is not a bad thing, we’ll see if they sweep it under the rug when they publish their findings.

They’ll quietly make an announcement in, like, September, when interest in the NBA is at its lowest, that they found no evidence of wrongdoing and refuse to acknowledge the incident ever again

Should be concluded after the next 3 all star breaks right? Any day now…

What he say fuck me for?

-Shai “50 Cent” Gilgeous-Alexander

Can’t reach him, he’s too tall.

They turned him into a mythical creature on here that apparently had the NBA under his thumb.

Or that the fans care that Wemby ghosted the media one night… In fact it’s more intriguing and more for us to talk about than anything he could have actually said.

The nephews don’t remember what people thought about David Stern when he was still kicking

Because people live so deeply in the past at times. It’s actually lame, people also didn’t care THIS much in Stern’s era but people in broad strokes have become extremely petulant and insufferable. Wemby stormed out and got emotional, shouldn’t have done it but who fucking cares? Losing sight of the bigger picture that we should all be vocal about how bad the reffing is. Last year’s playoffs were some of the best because every game, almost, felt like some fair physicality and reasonable reffing and this year has been shit again

Stern had his negatives, no denying that, you could argue at points he had too much power, but without him the league might not even exist today. He helped clean up the whole image of the league by being no nonsense.

Its cracks me up. Stern stayed on 2-3 years too long too and the game modernized immediately after his leaving.

Stern was undoubtedly good for the game but its crazy levels of myth making.

There’s also very clearly protocol that Wemby has to be warned first. The league definitely wanted to fine him for skipping their biggest post-game media obligation to date. This tells me they werent allowed to.

Majority of this sub probably didn’t even see the NBA run by David Stern for more than 2-3 years.

He fined the Jazz and Pacers for tanking and that fixed everything

Yup but i wanted to pile on the silver is soft train

They also declined to participate in some of the commisioner’s pet initiatives, like mic’ing up during games.

That’s a lot in NHL money too. I can’t imagine any NHL coaches are making more than a couple mil a year so that’s a big chunk of change for them

it was repetitive behavior iirc and they refused to stop when asked

They were warned multiple times before and it was the whole team to be fair.

And they were already drawing the ire of the commissioner and rest of the league due to some other shenanigans (blocking interviews for their previous HC who was fired midseason)

You have every right to be petty and I love it.

He skipped media after that as well, waited until next game, then said (essentially) “we’re still talking about that?”

People will turn on Wemby for diva behavior/hypocrisy. He’s young and can turn it around, but he ought to

Against a star? Not in Adam Silvers league. Do we not recall him elbowing his opponent in the throat just a few weeks ago? No penalty.

Insofar as anyone here cares about facts, he was very much penalized for that. He was ejected and fined. The “no fine” line that certain people parrot is from there not being an extra fine on top of the default fine for a flagrant 2. But he was both ejected and fined, both of which are penalties

He was ejected

He did get ejected

>no penalty

Just an ejection.

He skipped once. It’s not that serious

We don’t need PR bullshit quotes

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but wemby is golden boy going up against the evil flopping OKC empire he can do no wrong