7 games is an absolute joke. There's no doubt that the elbow was not part of any chest-thumping celebration but a deliberate swipe at the bearded one. If it had happened off-court MWP would've been charged w/ assault.
Silly. Sports is part of real life. If a hitter took a bat and beat another player over the head with it until they were dead, the player would be charged with murder. Extreme, I know. But once you establish that, it's only a matter of degree. 7 games is a joke.
Ok yea, thats way extreme. Artest threw an elbow in the heat of the moment. He didnt ram Harden's head into the ground and then grab a chair from the front row and beat him with it while choking him out with the net.
When I first saw this on the scroll, I thought it was a typo, like they left the zero off the end. 7 games for a deliberate blow to the head with a fierce elbow after an inadvertent contact play that happens every possession in the NBA? That is screwed up. But then again, these are the same yahoos that in 2007 suspended Stoudamire and Boris Diaw from the Spurs series for placing one foot on the court after Horry body checked Nash into the first row. They have an agenda, and the Lakers being competitive in the playoffs is part of it. Disgraceful. Hockey had it right with the suspension of Torres for 25 games after the hit on Hossa.
It will. I'm looking forward to this series. The Nuggets have been playing well lately and have always played the Lakers tough.
Javale McGee vs Andrew Bynum. That is worth the price of admission haha.
By the same token, the games he will get to play in after the first round are premium games as well. How does he get to play in the most meaningful games of the season for his team after his history and the obvious violent intent of that elbow? I can't believe there is nothing in his reinstatement conditions after the 1 year suspension for going into the stands that would force their hand to do more than this trivial suspension.
