Metta World Peace elbow to Harden

[Doctor MJ]

The "ban him from the NBA" people seem overly sensitive. That's the internet for you.

I would say that's true if it were someone other than Artest. Artest has a long history of this BS and I personally have had enough of it. Ban his ass and make the Lakers pay his salary anyway.

That's just stupid. Oh noes lets ban him for sh*t that happened 8 years ago.

8 years might seem like a long time, but from Stern's perspective, this just shows that if you keep having Artest around, you have to expect that stuff like this will keep happening, albeit relatively rarely. Maybe Artest retires without doing something like this again, but what motivates Stern to take the chance?

[Death Knight]

Artest must be a huge Jon Jones fan

bball players must be sissy's. That guy didn't flinch.

Ron must have watched Jon dominate with those elbows last night.

Iono man. Looks to me like he blocked the elbow.

[INKtastic]

why do people keep posting that Harden is fine and playing. He's not fine, he's not playing, he's in the locker room with concussion symptoms.

Artest should be out for the playoffs, and perhaps kicked out of the league for good.

[CROSS+]

you can truly see the difference in fans that have only seen david stern rule the nba.

Back in the days when players used to fight basically every day, the league was in very bad shape. Publicly it was perceived as a league full of coke-snorting thugs.

When Stern took over he transformed the league by holding players accountable for their actions on-court, making the league much more appealing to a broader audience.

Would you want to get elbowed in the head while playing basketball?

[Dr Positivity]

I honestly think it was unintentional, but still nobody but a psycho like Artest would be throwing around an elbow like that in celebration.

[CROSS+]

it was unintentional

trololo?

[sonicFLAME6]

Anyone saying this was unintentional is either blind or just plain mentally challenged.

[SVictor]

Again: Their arms are in contact before he starts to raise his arm to "celebrate" He was well aware Harden was to his left. Intentional. Period.

[LGND2552]

Realistically half season at most. It looked intentional, but he was caught up in the moment. I don't see a lifetime ban. There have been people who got into fist fights and only get suspended a game. Yes these fist fights involve shots to the head

[ZB9]

anyone who says that was unintentional must be trolling or needs to get their eyes checked

[Dr Positivity]

Actually you're right, they are touching

Still I don't know if it's intent to injure as much as MWP attempting a shove to the chest or something and just losing his sh*t

[Jan_Sobieski]

That was Artest stretching his arms out.

[Doctor MJ]

Artest must be a huge Jon Jones fan

bball players must be sissy's. That guy didn't flinch.

How bout this one LOL

Right, the thing is it's pretty hard to tell exactly how hard an elbow connects most of the time. Maybe the hit on Harden wasn't as bad as it looked, but players do get fractured skulls from elbows, and that's a huge freaking deal.

[rayofsunshine]

you can truly see the difference in fans that have only seen david stern rule the nba.

Back in the days when players used to fight basically every day, the league was in very bad shape. Publicly it was perceived as a league full of coke-snorting thugs.

When Stern took over he transformed the league by holding players accountable for their actions on-court, making the league much more appealing to a broader audience.

Would you want to get elbowed in the head while playing basketball?

If I was a 6'5 muscle bound athlete, I would dish it out and I would take it.

[Wone]

Realistically half season at most. It looked intentional, but he was caught up in the moment. I don't see a lifetime ban. There have been people who got into fist fights and only get suspended a game. Yes these fist fights involve shots to the head

fsit fight is a bit differnt. harden didn't get a chance to defend himself. with fist fights the participants obviously know what they're getting into.

[CROSS+]

I honestly think it was unintentional, but still nobody but a psycho like Artest would be throwing around an elbow like that in celebration.

Artest was bumping his chest, then bumped into Harden, then cocked back his elbow and swung through while being absolutely aware where Harden was. The only case you can make for Artest is not aiming specifically for the head. But still, you can't just swing your elbow in the vicinity of someones head and when you actually connect say "Oh, but I wasn't actually aiming for the head".

[Hoop Hunter]

Any person with a functioning brain and the gift of sight that says that was unintentional has serious problems, like MWP. They are flat out lying just to get a rise, or they are mentally challenged and can not comprehend reality.

[sportjames23]

Damn I cringe every replay. It's like watching when Snooki was punched in the face in the first season of Jersey Shore, except James Harden didn't deserve it lol

I shouldn't laugh, but damn.

I fell out when dude dropped Snooks. It was f*cked up, but still funny.

[rayofsunshine]

you can truly see the difference in fans that have only seen david stern rule the nba.

It's not even that. People just get outraged over everything these days.

very true!

Someone on twitter said Artest is giving world peace a bad name. lol

[styLesdavis]

Did you guys see Artest going into some Kind of Boxer-Mode as he was in front of Ibaka? If there were nobody between These two we would have had another brawl...