Metta World Peace elbow to Harden

carlosey · Post #1401 » by **carlosey** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:24 pm

The problem right now is that leagues from sports with far more physical brutal contact like NHL and NFL are starting to get heat from the media types realizing the long term effects of such violence causing head trauma on players. This could lead to the NBA having enough backing to make an example out of Artest which is the right thing to do. This kind of behaviour has no place on the court. Artest screwed up big right here and its going to cost him considering his extended history of violent behaviour.

druggas · Post #1402 » by **druggas** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:26 pm

What, Lebron and Kobe didn't get drug into this thread?

inquisitive · Post #1403 » by **inquisitive** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:26 pm

carlosey wrote:The problem right now is that leagues from sports with far more physical brutal contact like NHL and NFL are starting to get heat from the media types realizing the long term effects of such violence causing head trauma on players. This could lead to the NBA having enough backing to make an example out of Artest which is the right thing to do. This kind of behaviour has no place on the court. Artest screwed up big right here and its going to cost him considering his extended history of violent behaviour.

good point. concussions are the talk of sports nowdays...this could weigh in heavily when Stern makes a decision on Ron.

Vball_tl16 · Post #1404 » by **Vball_tl16** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:28 pm

druggas wrote:What, Lebron and Kobe didn't get drug into this thread?

it did for a moment with "what if perkins did that to kobe"

Stills12 · Post #1405 » by **Stills12** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:31 pm

LApwnd wrote:considering that Det incident and the league hate for Lakers, I would not be shocked at all if he is suspended for all of this yr and some of next.

Lakers v Kings playoffs series
Most championships since Jordan retired

and league hates Lakers :lol:

LApwnd · Post #1406 » by **LApwnd** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:33 pm

Still Desi wrote:
LApwnd wrote:considering that Det incident and the league hate for Lakers, I would not be shocked at all if he is suspended for all of this yr and some of next.

Lakers v Kings playoffs series
Most championships since Jordan retired

and league hates Lakers

NBA reasons homey and Lakers winning championship got nothing to do with the league like or dislike of LA.

Post #1407 » by **INKtastic** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:35 pm

JellosJigglin wrote:
inquisitive wrote:some local radio dj is saying that artest's career could be over from his sources in NYC...interesting.

lol @ nyc

the league offices are in NYC, I would imaging that's where the "sources in NYC" are

USA · Post #1408 » by **USA** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:39 pm

He should get 5 games. There is no place in the game for that, intentional or not. I don't think it was premeditated. I do think he meant to swing his elbow without thinking of where he might hit him or what the consequences might be.

Wooderson · Post #1409 » by **Wooderson** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:39 pm

Larry Sanders got a 2 game suspension for his part in a meaningless scuffle. Artest deserves a mucher longer suspension than that before even taking his past action into consideration.

Thundestruck · Post #1410 » by **Thundestruck** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:39 pm

I love the Harden was asking for it responses. The Thunder were trying to inbound the ball. Artest is running around like a crazy person but somehow it is Harden's fault.

Vball_tl16 · Post #1411 » by **Vball_tl16** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:40 pm

Max should be last game and first round of playoffs..

Stills12 · Post #1412 » by **Stills12** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:44 pm

LApwnd wrote:
Still Desi wrote:
LApwnd wrote:considering that Det incident and the league hate for Lakers, I would not be shocked at all if he is suspended for all of this yr and some of next.

Lakers v Kings playoffs series
Most championships since Jordan retired

and league hates Lakers

NBA reasons homey

Im fairly certain 5 championships and 6 conference titles since 2000 are greater than Stern rejecting that meh offer from Lakers.

Butterss · Post #1413 » by **Butterss** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:44 pm

Vball_tl16 wrote:Minimum should be last game and first round of playoffs..

Fixed that for you.

LApwnd · Post #1414 » by **LApwnd** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:44 pm

Thundestruck wrote:I love the Harden was asking for it responses. The Thunder were trying to inbound the ball. Artest is running around like a crazy person but somehow it is Harden's fault.

you see a crazy person celebrating with elbows out and you run into him, why? Its like seeing a drunk driver headed towards you, you could make a turn onto another street and avoid it but instead drive directly at him. Harden did NOT deserve it but he could've avoided as well, the ball was not going to be inbounded to him dont use that rational, he did the same thing with Chandler last year and lucked out that Chandler elbow didn't connect.

TheXFactor · Post #1415 » by **TheXFactor** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:46 pm

I don't think Harden will be jumping in front of Peace anymore when celebrating.

desertlakerfan · Post #1416 » by **desertlakerfan** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:47 pm

If a elbow lands to the head its a foul regardless of it's intention, no one is saying that Metta isn't to blame here.

However just as Metta's king kong celebration wasn't a natural basketball act(not many celebrations are), neither was Harden running up to bump Metta mid celebration on a inbound pass play.

The only explanation for Harden running up on Metta at that point was to try and flop to draw a cheap foul like he did against Dallas last year with Chanlder. Unfortunately for him he bit off more than he could chew trying to draw a foul against World Peace.

LApwnd · Post #1417 » by **LApwnd** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:48 pm

Still Desi wrote:Im fairly certain 5 championships and 6 conference titles since 2000 are greater than Stern rejecting that meh offer from Lakers.

right so Lakers been winning those championship cause league allowed them to

Thundestruck · Post #1418 » by **Thundestruck** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:49 pm

Thats great, I guess because Artest is a known crazy person no one is allowed to make contact with him. Can we go ahead and make that a rule, no touching Artest because no one knows what he will do.

Post #1419 » by **INKtastic** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:49 pm

LApwnd wrote:
Thundestruck wrote:I love the Harden was asking for it responses. The Thunder were trying to inbound the ball. Artest is running around like a crazy person but somehow it is Harden's fault.

you see a crazy person celebrating with elbows out and you run into him, why? Its like seeing a drunk driver headed towards you, you could make a turn onto another street and avoid it but instead drive directly at him. Harden did NOT deserve it but he could've avoided as well, the ball was not going to be inbounded to him dont use that rational, he did the same thing with Chandler last year and lucked out that Chandler elbow didn't connect.

Artest only had his elbows out once in that celebration...

LApwnd · Post #1420 » by **LApwnd** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:51 pm

INKtastic wrote:
LApwnd wrote:
Thundestruck wrote:I love the Harden was asking for it responses. The Thunder were trying to inbound the ball. Artest is running around like a crazy person but somehow it is Harden's fault.

you see a crazy person celebrating with elbows out and you run into him, why? Its like seeing a drunk driver headed towards you, you could make a turn onto another street and avoid it but instead drive directly at him. Harden did NOT deserve it but he could've avoided as well, the ball was not going to be inbounded to him dont use that rational, he did the same thing with Chandler last year and lucked out that Chandler elbow didn't connect.

Artest only had his elbows out once in that celebration...

ok, so you deliberately run into someone doing that?