NBA looking into another elbow incident from Kobe

[d-nice]

This is getting ridiculous. This one is from the Philly game! Somebody does not want Kobe playing too much.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2795315

[$Eg2$]

Yeah I knew this was coming  David Stern and Stu Jackson Stu jackson is a dumb ass I have no idea why he still has a job .

[wcsoldier]

Kobe will be suspended for the next 3 games... mark my words

[Citizen-Y]

If anyone didn't think he was going to be put under the microscope has to be fooling themselves.  I'd hate to see a player of his talent suspended but he has to keep his hands to himself!  And elbows.

["THE" MoSav]

i dont agree with this, but yeah hes gonna have to try and keep those elbows in, or hes gonna keep getting fucked no homo

[wcsoldier]

^^^^ I can live with the fact he has been suspended the 2nd time.. but if the league wanna suspend players for these kinds of play , well just suspend every single player.. not just Kobe... how the fuck Lebron didn't get suspended   I know lots of people who have stopped watchin B-Ball coz it has gone soft and the refs are more and more morons and biased.. David Stern and Stu Jackson are just attention whores with this "clean representation" thing about the league...

[d-nice]

If these rules where into play a few years back, Karl Malone would have NEVER PLAYED! As much as he would lead with his knees, elbows and feet when he would drive to the basket.

[wcsoldier]

Updated: March 12, 2007, 3:13 PM ET
Bryant assessed flagrant foul for elbow in PhillyBy Marc Stein
ESPN.com


Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant is not at risk for another suspension after elbowing Philadelphia's Kyle Korver.

League sources told ESPN.com that the incident was reviewed to determine whether Bryant would be retroactively assessed a flagrant foul after his left elbow connected with Korver in L.A.'s 108-92 road defeat Friday night.

That review, sources said, was completed Monday and reclassified the hit as a Flagrant 1 foul, Bryant's first flagrant foul of the season.

In his first game back from a one-game suspension after landing an elbow to the face of Minnesota's Marko Jaric, Bryant extended his elbow as he tried to dribble away from Korver on the perimeter. No foul was called on the play.

The league does reserve the right to reclassify fouls or non-calls as flagrant fouls following a video review. But if this incident had been subject to a possible suspension,

NBA vice president of basketball operations Stu Jackson would have rendered a ruling before the Lakers' next game. Bryant was cleared to play in their 108-72 home loss to Dallas on Sunday night.

Yet he remains under close scrutiny, in the media and from the league office, after receiving a pair of one-game suspensions in 2007 for stray elbows.

In both of those cases -- first with San Antonio's Manu Ginobili, then with Jaric -- Bryant made contact by flailing his arms after a shot attempt. No foul was called by game officials on the Ginobili play; Bryant was whistled for an offensive foul after catching Jaric.

"As players, we know during a game when someone is trying to hurt you or be mean, and I never thought that was what was happening," Jaric told ESPN.com last week. "So I'm really surprised by [the suspension]. I haven't seen the replay, but if you ask me what I thought about the play when it happened, I don't think he did it intentionally, and I don't think players should be suspended for things that happen unintentionally. I think he was trying to draw a foul, and he swung his hand out to make it look dramatic, and he hit me by accident. He apologized right after."

Korver offered similar sentiments to the Philadelphia Daily News in response to Friday's incident, saying: "I didn't think it was that big a deal. I thought it was an offensive foul. After I saw it on replay, it looked a lot worse than I thought it was during the game. It all happens fast. It's no big deal. It's just part of the game."

Even though the Korver play has been deemed a flagrant foul, Bryant is not in immediate danger of being suspended based on accumulation of flagrant-foul points.

Players receive one point for a Flagrant 1 foul and two points for a Flagrant 2 two, with suspensions starting when a player's total exceeds five points. Yet in spite of his two suspensions, Bryant's total now sits at one point.

Following the Jaric incident, which occurred just over a month after Bryant's tangle with Ginobili, Jackson told ESPN.com: "We considered suspending [Bryant] for multiple games. ... If this happens again, most likely, there will be multiple games.

"Since I've been here, I've not seen this type of conduct exhibited by a player -- driving his arm backwards and making contact above the shoulder -- I have not seen that."

 

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

I can't decide which is more disgusting, the people behind all this (David Stern, Stu Jackson, etc.) or the haters who foolishly go along with it acting like it's acceptable...


I honestly dunno how David Stern is still alive...


Seriously though, does anyone else find it funny how every analyst is amazed that Stu Jackson actually played in the NBA? It's mind-boggling, EVERY SINGLE PERSON who has played basketball and has made an assessment on these suspensions has claimed that Stu Jackson is pretty much the biggest moron alive. When you get your shot blocked from behind, the natural reaction is to flail your arms back, create space and balance, feel behind you to see where your guy is, etc....It's just one of the most pathetic things I have come across in my life...

[GangstaBoogy]

They can't suspend him now - they already let him play yesterday. If it wasn't for the Lakers having a nationally televised game I'm sure he would've been suspended.

[ecrazy]

Kobe is a Menace To Non Black Players, I think he is the NBA's Black Panther Representative. he should be watched like a hawk, who knows who's next?! Do they play the bobcats any time soon? Watch out Adam Morrison!

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

Kobe is a Menace To Non Black Players, I think he is the NBA's Black Panther Representative. he should be watched like a hawk, who knows who's next?! Do they play the bobcats any time soon? Watch out Adam Morrison!

You're a menace to people with common sense...

[Bay Area Jat]

kobe is a dirty player

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

kobe is a dirty player

Do you really think that, or are you just saying that because you're a hater? Cuz honestly, I've only heard the biggest Kobe haters say shit like that...

[Bay Area Jat]

kobe is a dirty player

Do you really think that, or are you just saying that because you're a hater? Cuz honestly, I've only heard the biggest Kobe haters say shit like that...

lol cause im a hater