eyeatoma wrote:Luv those Knicks wrote:eyeatoma wrote:
I believe "intent to injure" implies malice and forethought. I believe that was more of a tantrum than what people on here are claiming.
There's no way to know what was going through his head regarding intent. He may have just been thinking, I'm going to grab this guy to stop him.
But a LOT of people have called this an over the top dirty play, even players from years ago when the league was more physical. It was a high injury risk play, absolutely reckless and a play that would have resulted in a flagrant 2 if any other player had done it.
I think it's clear what Embiids intention was when he kneed Isiah Hartenstein in the balls as well. He also is the #1 in the league in flagrant fouls per game, so when you talk about intent, I think it's obvious that Embiids intent is to foul often and hard and then, expect to get away with it because he wears a superstar tag.
He's injured players before. He's one of the league leaders in injuring players, so . . . it's not a stretch to say that his intent was to injur, or certainly, to hurt Mitch.
And Silver is letting him get away with it. The one ray of hope is that this is getting a lot of press. Embiid is worse than Draymond Green. It's time he started getting the Draymond Green treatment.
Lol! You lost me there. He hasn't injured players before. It's been incidental when he falls (Danny Green). Or stepped on Scottie Barnes foot when he was making a regular basketball play and Barnes just decided to put his foot at the same time he was doing a normal post move. That's not intent cmon. Draymond stomps on players chests, see the difference. If you can't differentiate between the two, then not much else I can say.
Very incidental stepping on Grant Williams' head too. Very incidental injuring 3 Raptors centers during the playoffs. Very incidental pulling Mitch's leg while he was on the floor.
Damn...I see what you were doing there, eyeatoma. Clever argument about how Embiid is dirty!