Bryant suspended one game

[Bart]

I despise Kobe Bryant. He is a punk. Seems like just about every one of these punching incidents involves a retard attacking a white man.I'm serious. Kobe also uses his elbows as a weapon as does Kevin Garnett.


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Bryant, the superstar guard of the Los Angeles Lakers, was suspended one game without pay by the NBA and will miss Tuesday night's game against the Knicks at Madison Square Garden.


The suspension was announced by NBA executive vice president of basketball operations Stu Jackson, two days after Bryant's involvement in an incident in Sunday's home loss to San Antonio.


With 2.7 seconds left in the fourth quarter of a tie game, Bryant had his jump shot blocked by Spurs guard Manu Ginobili. As he landed and retrieved the ball, Bryant struck Ginobili in the face.


Ginobili required medical attention between the fourth quarter and overtime but returned to the game.

 

[bigunreal]

This is typical black behavior on the basketball court. Anyone who has ever played against blacks in pickup basketball games or high school games knows that a white player's stuff or rejection of a black player will almost instinctively result in the black player wanting to fight. It's one of the primary reasons, imho (along with referees at all levels calling fouls on whites for the same kind of "tough defense" all blacks get away with) that white American players in college and the NBA play the "arms straight up in the air" style of passive defense that no black ever employs. I just hope this incident doesn't cause Ginobli to start copying American white players, and lose the aggressiveness that has made him such a great player.

 

[Guest]

Did you ever see the play? He shot and went down the same way he does on all of his jumpshots. Ginoboli's head was right under Kobe's elbow. It was in no way Kobe's fault. Kobe even went over to see if he was OK. It was not intentional at all.<!--
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[Bart]

Did you ever see the play?<!--
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You are full of baloney! I saw it. After taking the shot Kobe's arm didn't follow the natural follow through. He thrust it to the side and caught Ginobli. Watch it at ESPN. At the top right ofthe page, click on the video entitled - Kobe suspension fair? Double thesize and you wil see it more clearly.


http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/indexEdited by: Bart

 

[jaxvid]

Yeah, and would the league even think about suspending him if there wasn't irrefutable evidence about his foul?

 

[bigunreal]

I saw a bit of coverage about this incident on ESPN today. What a joke- to a man, these lame, wannabe comedians were outraged that Kobe had been "punished" and were particularly upset that the New York fans wouldn't get to see the superstar in his only appearance against them. It's truly amazing to witness the total lack of principles and morality amongst these jock- sniffers when they are defending their beloved affletes. Think of the logic here; it isn't fair to punish New York fans by making the one player they want to see miss the game against them because of an infraction on the court. Taking this reasoning further, it wouldn't be
"fair" for the refs to call enough fouls on Kobe in any given game for him to foul out, on an opposing team's court, because then those fans would be denied the opportunity to see their idol play, and they paid good money to do so. What if Kobe had attacked Ginbobli with a machete after the play? Would an on-court murder of an opposing player (even if it was just a meaningless white boy) be grounds for suspension of a superstar? Should fans in other arenas be denied the right to see Kobe play, just because he murdered someone earlier in the season? Don King's America grows more frightening every day, and very few people even know it.

 

[White Shogun]

Suprisingly, Colin Cowherd of ESPN radio infamy sided with the suspension. He said that Kobe Bryant has the greatest 'body control' of any player in the NBA; he knew where his elbow was and where it was headed when he threw it.

Cowherd also mocked the New York fans and used nearly the same argument that bigunreal did in his refutation of the idea that the New York fans should be 'allowed' to see Kobe.

If the NBA had allowed such Kobe to play in New York and serve his suspension later, they would have essentially proven the conspiracy theorists right: that the league is made for the stars and big markets, and that's it.

 

[Bart]

Kobe has a history of this sort of thing. Sometimes a player gets hit unintentionally and at other times it is intentional. Note that Kobe was suspended for hittingMike in retalliation.Miller was not .


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EL SEGUNDO, Calif. - 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.


Kobe: "Somebody comes down the lane, you've got to hit him," he said Friday. "You can't let them come down the lane and just finger roll and get easy baskets. Nothing to hurt anybody like that. That's just basic NBA basketball."


Bryant also said he didn't believe the elbow from Miller was intentional.