Re: NBA "justice"

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>]

Go ahead keep getting your brains knocked around, I'll pass! A sucker punch
is just that. No matter who did or does it.

DanF

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kestutis Kveraga" <Kestutis.Kveraga@dartmouth.edu>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: NBA "justice"


> --- You wrote:
> Can we lobby to have Snoopy sent to the NBA to manage player discipline?
I
> returned to the list, after having been away for several weeks, just in
time to
> read his reasoned response to the outrageous behavior, but it's obvious no
one
> in the NBA saw it, or perhaps the resulting "discipline" would not have
been
> the gentle "slap on the wrist."  Shaq joins a long list of felons who play
NBA
> ball.  It is truly unfortunate that sportsmanship is no longer a value in
> professional sports.
> --- end of quote ---
>
> I don't understand why you people are so up in arms about this incident
(other
> than Shaq being a Laker, of course :>). You're making judgments like you
know
> what you're talking about. I get fouled hard a few times in a pickup game,
and
> I'm ready to punch someone out. Shaq has been subjected to this for many
years,
> ever since he entered the league, and probably in college, too. Listen to
NBA
> players - those who know what it's like to be on the NBA's
"must-be-stopped"
> list, like Paul Pierce - have to say to about it.
> Shaq had exhibited a saintly patience with "Hack-a-Shaq" defenders up to
this
> point. He had his hand broken by that goon Matt Geiger, for chrissakes.
What do
> you think, it doesn't hurt because he's big?
> As for his fine, the "slap on the wrist" actually cost him almost $800 000
> ($784 000 in pay and the $15 000 fine). If he's a felon for lashing out at
his
> abusers, then Bird and Parish (and many other Celtics) are felons, too,
for
> lashing out at Laimbeer and others. But I bet you didn't call for Bird's
or
> Parish's  arrests after they struck back.
> Some of you people need to get into a pickup game and get hit, hard, by
> multiple defenders, every time you get near the basket. Then you won't be
so
> self-righteous about it.
> Kestas