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Amare Stoudemire should be suspended

by The Cavalier on May 16, 2007 · 64 comments

We’re going to discuss this Suns/Spurs business one more time, now that we’ve heard from the offending (and offended) parties.

This is a non-joke zone, because we actually have an opinion here, and it’s probably not the popular one, based on what we’ve read elsewhere. (Please read carefully before you yell at us.)

After watching all the stuff a bunch of times and reading the explanations from the league, the rebuttels from the press, the angst from the team owners/players, and the justified accusations of hyprocracy from the fans, our opinion is formed.

Here’s Suns owner Robert Sarver, who’s upset and such.

The league goofed Tuesday by suspending Amaré Stoudemire and Boris Diaw for tonight’s Game 5 of the Western Conference semifinals. The league erred by relying on the language of the law instead of the spirit of it.

“I feel we’ve been unjustly penalized for the fact that we just played a good, clean hard game,” Suns owner Robert Sarver said. “I feel if any team should have been penalized in this series, it should be the Spurs, and I feel bad about it.

“I feel like I’ve just been punched in the gut.”

Okay, first of all, we completely agree with this – it sucks that the Spurs are essentially rewarded for their guy causing the whole thing.

THAT SAID (and this is a big THAT SAID), the reason we italicized the thingy up there in blue is because the spirit of the law was followed.

It doesn’t matter if Stoudemire and Diaw weren’t coming to fight or getting ready to throw punches. If any of you have ever been in a fight situation, then you know that having extra hands standing by to support you fires things up just a little more.

All of a sudden three guys “got your back” and you can get a little more shovey, a little more pushy, a little more mouthy, and you’re that much closer to a fight breaking out.

It escalates things, and that’s what the “spirit of the law” is for. It’s supposed to prevent the fight from happening in the first place, not punish people for getting in a fight. It worked – those guys scurried back to the bench, and it stopped things from escalating further and getting out of hand.

The NBA did the right thing in this situation – argue all you want about how it makes the series worse (and it does), it’s not fair to the Suns because they didn’t start it (and they didn’t), and that the rule needs to be revisited (it might), but there’s no doubt that Amare and Boris running out there (and Amare was running aggressively) was going to push things to another level.

(We still think the Suns can win tonight, btw. In fact, we think they will.)

UPDATE: Pounding the Rock, an excellent Spurs blog you may or may not peruse, is not happy with all of this either, as the labels of “thugs and villians” are not exactly pleasing. Their suggestion? San Antonio should sit Tim Duncan tonight, which we feel is something they’d maybe regret tomorrow. We like the spirit, though.

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1 The Cavalier May 16, 2007 at 8:34 pm

LeBron 2-5.
Hughes 2-14???

2 The Cavalier May 16, 2007 at 8:39 pm

Who wants it less – the Cavs or Lasers? Should be a fantastic Eastern Finals.

3 Blurrz May 16, 2007 at 8:46 pm

Now that I know there will be a Game 6, I still have no one to go with.

Becky, are you still interested? I don’t need to get laid, but I would prefer not to waste $110.

4 The SP May 16, 2007 at 8:51 pm

The Cavs will always want it less. Cavs in 7.

5 TVBrain May 16, 2007 at 9:03 pm

If they don’t care, why should we?

6 The Cavalier May 16, 2007 at 9:05 pm

Exactly.

7 Blurrz May 16, 2007 at 9:29 pm

Becky? For the love of god, I need someone to go to the game with!

8 The Cavalier May 16, 2007 at 9:33 pm

I have a feeling she’s out tonight!

9 becky May 16, 2007 at 10:09 pm

Blurrz-
I’m listening….

10 Blurrz May 17, 2007 at 8:13 am

Becky,

Please see the LeBron post.

11 Shogun May 23, 2007 at 5:50 pm

The NBA: “I love this game, but not anymore”

With the wonderful handling of the officiating in the NBA in general I believe its time for the fans to take action. For those who watched the Suns / Spurs series I must say that it had the worst officiating in the history of professional sports. At least in the opinion of myself and many others. I could give a laundry list of examples but this isn’t a gripe email. The fact is that to win a championship in the NBA you must not possess skill, speed, or ability. You must possess thugs to hammer better players to the ground. You must beat the crap out of your opponents, and you must use third string players to hammer superstars in front of their bench. This is what makes a champion in the NBA. Sad but True.

The rules are enforced to favor the teams that approach this style of full contact basket ball. I’m not watching basket ball, I’m watching the old Arnold Schwarzenegger movie The Running Man, except the good guy looses.

I personally am going to boycott the NBA until further notice. This is no longer a game of skill that centers around putting the ball in the basket. It is a boxing match that centers around the strategy of how to most effectively hit and assault the other team. My personal message to David Stern… “I love this game, but not anymore”

Boycott the NBA. National “Boxing” Association

12 AmareStoudemireluva April 21, 2008 at 7:08 pm

I think the Suns main and best players are Amare Stoudemire & Steve Nash. Let me correct myself, i don’t THINK they’re the best I KNOW theyre the best! Steve Nash is what- 32 years old? He should be slowing down…. but he’s not! Good for him! And Stoudemire is 26 years old!! He’s got a lot of years to come!! YAY!! And second of all, Shogun, why don’t you like the NBA?! And do you still like the game of basketball?! it’s a GREAT sport, dont forget that!

13 AmareStoudemireluva April 21, 2008 at 7:12 pm

I LOVE BASKETBALL!!!!!!

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