Deandre Ayton suspended 25 games

[TeamTragic]

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lol good lord....speechless

I cannot even.....this **** clown

[jcsunsfan]

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Holy sweet baby Jesus in the cradle. Someone make this kid shut the f up. Right up there with the 2nd contract comment in stupidity.
Boy, we screwed the pooch on that draft. (regardless what happens when he comes back today)

was that such a bad move though? if this is true then it means he accepted that he made a mistake and didn't want to generate a circus around that mistake. we all know that it would have been highly unlikely that an appeal would have made any difference anyway.

He knew a appeal would not be approved even if he felt he had a good case. He just shut up and served his sentence. I do not see anything wrong with the comment.

[jcsunsfan]

This is how I see it. Thanks.

But it`s easier jumping on Ayton`s throat again.

Indeed, the overreactions of some on everything Ayton says doesn't speak of them being any more mature than him and he's probably much younger. Not getting over the fact Ayton is on the Suns and not Luka is also pointing in this direction.

And who the f is talking about circus? If you made an honest mistake, you appeal, say that you have no comment until the decision comes out and you shut up and that's it. Where is the circus in this? Who said he has to say anything or talk to the media or whatever?

God, I hope we'll be talking tomorrow how good he played, and not about the rest of this ****. Not sure I can take much more of it without causing brain damage to myself.

Good grief. Exactly. You are damaging yourself. Man you are just reading way too much into all of this.

[lilfishi22]

The way I see it, he had no case. If he had gone ahead, it's possible a more thorough investigation may have unraveled more things which he may not have wanted to get out so he took the 25 games penalty. That's the only distraction I can see.

If he had a case at all, it would've been less of a distraction to fight it and come back into the fold 5, 10, 15 games earlier.

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The way I see it, he had no case. If he had gone ahead, it's possible a more thorough investigation may have unraveled more things which he may not have wanted to get out so he took the 25 games penalty. That's the only distraction I can see.

If he had a case at all, it would've been less of a distraction to fight it and come back into the fold 5, 10, 15 games earlier.

Yeah I’m thinking it’s the first part you mentioned. Since diuretic is mainly used to cover something up, he didn’t want whatever he used it to cover up being released publicly somehow. Probably something that could further kill his reputation and the team’s.

Otherwise yeah it would’ve been a no brainer for him to challenge and get even like 5-10 games reduced. He lost a significant amount of $$ during this suspension so I’m sure he knew that.