Oso planning to go pro
Kareem also played when there weren't so many dominant bigs to oppose him.
Stewart initially went after Lebron, was pulled away and said he was done, only to go after him again once people let go of him. Does he deserve more than Lebron? I think so due to the second act.
Lebron elbows Isaiah Stewart of the Pistons aggressively and intentionally in the face, splitting his eye open. Lebron walks away daps up his teammates after the ejection acting like he did nothing wrong and shocked that he was ejected.Stewart is understandably pissed. Tries to run towards the Lakers a few times, fighting through his teammates and officials. Never gets near Lebron, throws no punches, makes no contact with anyone of note, much less a Laker.Lebron gets a 1 game suspension. Stewart gets double that and will sit for 2. I love the NBA, its my favorite professional league, but what an absolute joke. I'm honestly shocked that they suspended Lebron at all given he's missing a game at MSG. I'm fine that they gave Stewart a suspension. He overreacted completely. But being punished more aggressively than the man who split his face open is just a joke.Lakers play the Pistons again on Sunday. Looking forward to a scheduled Lebron rest day.
https://twitter.com/SanjiSomething/status/1462584372813574149?t=HqrdcRFbPR1C0_-3osXOpA&s=19Agree with everything except he didn't elbow Stewart, he closed-fisted punched him in the face for the crime of boxing out on a FT. One game is a joke
A one-game suspension is within the guidelines. Any more than that would have been excessive.https://www.sportskeeda.com/basketball/news-how-many-flagrant-fouls-lead-suspension-nba"The NBA follows a 'penalty points' system to determine suspensions. A Flagrant 1 foul results in one penalty point, while a Flagrant 2 results in two penalty points. If a player accumulates more than five penalty points during the course of the regular season, they get suspended."
Okay assuming LeBron had 3 penalty points prior to that and 2 penalty points here would have put him at 5, if he had no penalty points prior to this then no suspension at all? As long as you avoid flagrants the rest of the year you get 2 free punches to the face (a.k.a. 4 penalty points)?So if Stewart had punched LeBron in the face and LeBron subsequently lost his sh!t, you think Beef Stew gets only one game for penalty points and LeBron gets 2 games for his reaction? No chance.
You can deal in hypotheticals all you want. The penalties as they were handed out were completely understandable.
So your position is that a player gets 2 free face punches per season (4 points) and the NBA is beholden to the flagrant foul points system when determining suspensions? Their hands are tied otherwise?
My position is that the suspensions were perfectly reasonable. You can change the argument all you want.
So if Stewart had punched LeBron in the face and LeBron subsequently lost his sh!t, you think Beef Stew gets only one game for penalty points and LeBron gets 2 games for his reaction? No chance.
After Jimmy decided he wanted to be tough and yell across the court at Jokic following the Jokic/Morris incident (minutes after it happened, when he could’ve easily gone after Jokic if he wasn’t just acting tough for the cameras right after it happened), Jimmy sits out against the Nuggets? Lol.
Heat and Bulls fined the exact same amount as the Bucks - a 2nd rounder - for tampering. But they also got players out of that so....
The Bucks didn't because Bogdanovic never signed the contract with the Kings.