Bryant suspended for elbowing Miller

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EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) -- Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant was suspended for two games without pay Friday for elbowing Mike Miller of the Memphis Grizzlies in the throat.

Bryant was called for a flagrant foul for elbowing Miller with 8:24 remaining in the fourth quarter in Wednesday night's 100-99 overtime loss to the Grizzlies. He is scheduled to serve his suspension Sunday, when the Lakers host Utah, and Tuesday, when Los Angeles plays at the Jazz.

"Very surprised. Shocked, actually. Very, very surprised," Bryant said after practice Friday. "Angry and frustrated. I've been hit with a couple of flagrant fouls already this year. I've been hit with a clothesline and no suspensions come of that. and I get two games for this?"

After the game, Bryant was unapologetic. He was cut over his left eye early in the third quarter when Miller elbowed him while driving to the basket. Bryant left the game briefly, and took three stitches to close the wound.

"Any player that was going to come down the lane at that point in time, I was going to let him know that he just can't walk through there," Bryant said after the game. "I think we as a team have to do a better job of establishing that. And me, as a leader of the ballclub, I've got to take the initiative to do that -- and hopefully, everybody will see that.

"This being our home court, people come here and think it's Hollywood and all sorts of stuff, so they think they'll come down (the lane) and look pretty and shoot jump shots and dunk the ball and finger-roll the ball and do all sorts of cute stuff. And we've got to stop that."


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It's about time Kobe was brought back to earth! He isn't God, no matter what he thinks. He should be glad he didn't get a more severe punishment.
 

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Is it to late to suspend him for raping the White Girl?
 

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He gets away with more elbows than anybody. That elbow should resulted in a bench clearing fight. Although Miller's black teammates probably would have fought on Kobe's side.
 

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He rapes white girls and he clobbers white guys!



Kobe Bryant doesn't care about white people.
 

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Anyone notice a pattern here?


Bryant gets another suspension for striking a player

NEW YORK (AP) -- Kobe Bryant was suspended one game by the NBA on Wednesday for striking a player in the face, his second penalty for that action in a little more than a month.

The most recent incident came with 58 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter of the Lakers' 117-107 double-overtime loss to Minnesota on Tuesday night, when Bryant struck the Timberwolves' Marko Jaric after taking a shot.

The play was similar to one that drew Bryant a suspension late in January, when he hit San Antonio's Manu Ginobili in the face after taking a shot. NBA executive vice president Stu Jackson determined that play to have been an unnatural basketball action and suspended Bryant from a game at New York.

Bryant, second in the NBA with 29.2 points per game, will miss the Lakers' game at Milwaukee on Wednesday night.
 
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Why does he only do that to white guys?

There are plenty of black players in the league that play him "tough". Bowen, Artest, Bell, etc
 

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Why does he only do that to white guys?


Because most white basketball players are easy marks. Kobe knows he can get away with just about anything on and off the court. I am waiting for Ginobli, Miller, Yaric or any white player to beat the snot out of that skinny little twerp. It'll probably be a cold day in hell.
 

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This writer must be reading Caste Football.


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Once more, Kobe Bryant has cost himself the leverage to wag his finger and bemoan the tactics of the Raja Bells and Bruce Bowens in the Western Conference playoffs. No one confuses Bryant's intentions now. He keeps swinging for faces and keeps connecting.


First, it was San Antonio's Manu Ginobili. This time, it was Minnesota's Marko Jaric. For every aspect of basketball that Bryant has perfected, he's failing at the art of concealing the cheap shot. Stu Jackson's office let Kobe off easy with a one-game suspension for popping Jaric on Tuesday night, especially with the memory still so fresh of Bryant's shot upside Ginobili's head in late January. This latest transgression was worth two games, easy. Maybe three.


Somehow, this has become a part of Bryant's arsenal. Another missed jump shot, and another wild, flail on his follow-through at a defender's face. Whatever the story he's spinning this season, there remains a lot of anger, a lot of unrest within the Los Angeles Lakers star, and these are the moments when it manifests. And isn't it curious how he keeps picking victims whom he doesn't fear will fight back?


"I don't think he would've done that to (Minnesota's) Ricky Davis," one Eastern Conference scout said Wednesday. "In part, Kobe probably thought that if anything went down, he'd beat Marko's ass. No question in his mind. With Ricky, he's probably got a little more respect for him as a player, and probably a little more concern. 'I might be able to beat his ass, too, but I'm not necessarily sure it's worth the trouble.'


"The respect factor, of who it is, plays a big role in it."


This scout happens to believe that Kobe learned this trick from his old teammate and nemesis, Shaquille O'Neal. No one in the sport finds more creative ways to get in his digs than Shaq, especially when it appears he's accidentally gotten tangled on his way to the ground.


"When he's getting fouled, Shaq is notorious for flailing and trying to inflict damage on the culprits involved," the scout said. "He's looking for a little payback. I can sympathize with him. Shaq's always got guys draped on him, beating on him, and they know they've got to hit him hard or there's going to be a three-point play.


"But whichever big stiff who Shaq didn't have respect for -- whose job it was to beat on him -- he loved to punish them. He would hit them in the mouth, jaw -- always do it on the offense end, not on defense. That way, he was able to conceal it a bit with his move."


As it's gone lately, Bryant hasn't had the ability to conceal those agitated swings and swipes. And when the playoffs arrive, when the West's real tough guys come calling, Lakers coach Phil Jackson and he will have a tougher time selling the sport's best player as a victim. The league suspended him for Wednesday night's game with the Bucks, but Kobe Bryant starts paying the price now.
 

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So Kobe's apparantly picking on white guys he thinks he can take in a fight. Has he been watching the UFC. Shaq is routinely at these UFC ppv's and he can tell Kobe firsthand how a white guy will take you down to the ground, pound you some and then submit you in front of thousands while you are screaming for mercy. Would love to see that happen to him.
 

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It's so hilarious, and so annoying, that there's anybody dumb or biased enough to try to convince the rest of us that this is just a "natural shooting motion" or that he was just "trying to draw a foul." It's a deliberate strike to the face. Period.

Bart said:
"The respect factor, of who it is, plays a big role in it."

And he clearly doesn't respect white players. Prick.

"But whichever big stiff who Shaq didn't have respect for -- whose job it was to beat on him -- he loved to punish them.

Good emphasis, Bart. We all know what he means by "big stiff." Big white stiff.
 
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I dont think Kobe wouldve tried this tactic against players like Tom Chambers, Dan Issel, Bill Lambier, Danny Ainge, Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, Kurt Rambis, Bill Walton, Jack Sigma, Dave Cowens, Doug Collins, Chris Mullins, etc.

He would get his ass beat by any of the above mentioned players.

He knows who he can pull this on.
 

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His goal must be to elbow every white player in the league. From SI.com:


An elbow thrown at the Sixers' Kyle Korver by the Lakers' Kobe Bryant in the final moments of the first half of Friday night's game is "being looked at" by league officials, an NBA source indicated.
-- Philadelphia Daily News
 

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Don Wassall said:
His goal must be to elbow every white player in the league.  From SI.com:


An elbow thrown at the Sixers' Kyle Korver by the Lakers' Kobe Bryant in the final moments of the first half of Friday night's game is "being looked at" by league officials, an NBA source indicated.-- Philadelphia Daily News

I was flipping through channels and caught a segment on the Jim Rome show. A guest commentator on the show brought up that he noticed that every recepient of Bryant's elbows were white guys. Jim Rome almost fell over and said something to the effect of: "You're not suggesting that these incidents had anything to race are you!?" In typical cowardly fashion the guy back down and said he was sure this had nothing to do with race - it was a coincedence - just something he noticed.

That makes it 4 for 4. 4 elbows to 4 different white guys. What are the odds? I'm sure it's just a coincidence - black people can't be racist.
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Kaptain Poop said:
A guest commentator on the show brought up that he noticed that every recepient of Bryant's elbows were white guys. Jim Rome almost fell over and said something to the effect of: "You're not suggesting that these incidents had anything to race are you!?"
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Now, why would anyone suspect something like that?Rome is a major league twit.
 

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Gentlemen, you are missing something here. Kobe Bryant, like so many others is full of hate, frustration, anger, and, yes, jealousy.

It does not matter how many millions he earns, or how many television appearances he makes, or how big a star he is in basketball, all of his worth is attributable to basketball and basketball ONLY. Outside of the sport he is mister nobody, and, to his own exasperation, he cannot believe it. He cannot believe that aside from black people, outside of the basketball, most people, and especially people of influence, could care less who he is. Of course he attributes this to racism.

He sees white players as a threat to black dominance in basketball and he is especially jealous of how white players, even foreign white players, can move away from the sport and be accepted in the real world, in white society.

His cries of being fouled all the time are like a drug dealer complaining someone stold his drugs!Edited by: Maple Leaf
 

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What was that quote from Scoop Jackson, "basketball is getting whiter and the brothers dont like it." Something to that effect. For so long its been "their" game, but now white players who can actuallyshoot, pass and defend (imagine that, what a strange style of play.) are making serious inroads into the game. Expect to see more cheap shot garbage from Kobe the Rapist and others, while the league and media make excusesand the white lemming fans brush it off. Also, more claims of "racism" as the league gets whiter.


BTW, I saw Stephen A. Smiff at KFC the other day. I told him I was sorry his show was cancelled, as it had given me a lot of laughs. He replied, but I couldn't understand whatever it was he said.Edited by: Roundabout
 

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I saw all 3 elbows just before the Spurs v Pistons game and I was so angry about it. The presenters even here in England are also too scared to bring up the race factor but it's clear he is targetting white players and you could tell the presenters knew something was fishy about it. I'd love to see how the media would react if Nowitzki were to clobber skinny little Kobe! Anyway my evening ended on a high note as the Spurs comfortably beat the ghetto boys of Detroit.
 

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I wouldn't be surprised if Kobe's next victim is black. Hewould then be touted as hard-nosed--but not racist.
 

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If Kobe ever elbows a black guy it will be 5-6 Earl Boykins of the Washington Wizards!
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I think Kobe elbowed Raja Bell of the Suns in the playoffs last year. Bell retaliated by taking a good shot at Kobe.
 

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I can't stand Phil Jackson and how he always complains his players are the brunt of some witch hunt. He always used to complain that Shaq was treated unfairly. Just the opposite; Shaq was the poorest officiated player in the league in Shaq's favor. Now he claims Kobe is being treated unfairly. Kobe is another player that is above the rules whether he's getting 99% of close calls going his way by the referees or above punishment from civil society.Edited by: ToughJ.Riggins
 
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