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Kobe Suspended two games for Vicious elbow
wcsoldier:
I think , Kobe is right about the team being too soft at home, , too many uncontested lay-ups and dunks have been given. About Mike Miller, Kobe was pissed off coz this bitch walked away like nothin happened after the incident. We need a Rick-Fox type of player who can be the enforcer (who can be suspended games unlike the leader of the team)
wcsoldier:
--- Quote from: Now_Im_Blowed on December 30, 2005, 06:12:52 PM ---LMAO@this guy^^^
Anyways, this suspension is bullshit...WTF. Dwyane Wade did the same exact thing, intentionally elbowing Kobe for retaliation, but he didn't get shit...More proof of Kobe being one of the most hated players in the league...and LMAO@that Hollywood comment, Kobe sounds serious as fuck about this shit...I love it. Seriously though, I woulda' socked Mike Miller in the head if he woulda' "accidently" cut my eye open like that. I definitely understand Kobe's frustrations, getting pounded everytime he takes it in, and most of the time there being no whistle...Even that last Kobe lay-up for the game was a foul, so I can definitely see where the frustration is coming from...I wanna see Odom and Kwame step up in Kobe's absence...I would love for the Lakers to win their next four games, as I predicted before the Kobe suspension...Profit is Kobe's most reliable back-up though, so the Lakers are really gunna feel his absence in these next 2 games...PeACe
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There was a foul on the Mihm jumphook aswell. Phil said V. Wafer might start, I got a feelin he can be a good surprise
wcsoldier:
Kobe reaction ....
Kobe Bryant was suspended by the NBA without pay for two games for flagrantly fouling Memphis guard Mike Miller on Wednesday, an action that cost him $289,943 in lost salary and continued an already arduous week for Bryant and the Lakers.
Bryant, who disagreed with the league's decision, was called for the foul after elbowing Miller in the chin in the fourth quarter of the Lakers' 100-99 overtime loss. Referees called it a flagrant foul I, but the league upgraded it to a flagrant foul II, assessed for "unnecessary and excessive contact."
Bryant, the NBA's second-leading scorer, will serve the suspension for a home game Sunday against the Utah Jazz and a road game Tuesday in Utah.
"I'm very surprised," Bryant said Friday. "Shocked, actually. Very, very surprised. Angry and frustrated. I've been hit with a couple of flagrant fouls already this year, hit with a clothesline and no suspensions come of that. And I get two games for this."
Laker Coach Phil Jackson said Bryant's postgame comments probably contributed to the severity of the suspension.
Bryant said after the game that "any player that was going to come down the lane at that particular time, I was going to let them know that they just can't walk through here."
He reiterated those remarks Friday.
"What I said is no different than what everybody else says," Bryant said. "If somebody comes down the lane, you've got to hit them. You can't let them come down the lane, just finger-roll and get up easy baskets.
"Nothing to hurt anybody or anything like that, that's just basic NBA basketball."
Miller had thrown a pass just before the foul occurred.
Laker General Manager Mitch Kupchak also disagreed with the ruling.
"We understand that the league has a job to do in enforcing disciplinary action, but we disagree with and are disappointed with their ruling," Kupchak said in a statement.
Bryant can appeal the fine but not the suspension. He is not allowed to be in the arena for either game, and he spent most of Friday's practice watching from the sideline as the team prepared for Utah without him. The Lakers, currently 15-14, have lost three consecutive games by a combined nine points.
Miller and Bryant began tussling in the third quarter Wednesday, when a driving Miller elbowed Bryant and caused an inch-long gash near Bryant's left eye that required three stitches.
Bryant said Friday the league appeared to ignore that play.
"It seems that way," he said. "I got called for a foul on that? He threw his elbow out and cracked me in the face."
Bryant did express remorse for his flagrant foul ... sort of.
"I wish I could go back in time and take that foul back knowing what I know now, getting two games for it," he said. "No way in my mind did I think it was going to be a suspension or something like that. No way."
Take it back how?
"I'd just hit him a little softer," Bryant said.
Now_Im_Not_Banned:
--- Quote from: wcsoldier on December 31, 2005, 05:18:04 AM ---
--- Quote from: Now_Im_Blowed on December 30, 2005, 06:12:52 PM ---LMAO@this guy^^^
Anyways, this suspension is bullshit...WTF. Dwyane Wade did the same exact thing, intentionally elbowing Kobe for retaliation, but he didn't get shit...More proof of Kobe being one of the most hated players in the league...and LMAO@that Hollywood comment, Kobe sounds serious as fuck about this shit...I love it. Seriously though, I woulda' socked Mike Miller in the head if he woulda' "accidently" cut my eye open like that. I definitely understand Kobe's frustrations, getting pounded everytime he takes it in, and most of the time there being no whistle...Even that last Kobe lay-up for the game was a foul, so I can definitely see where the frustration is coming from...I wanna see Odom and Kwame step up in Kobe's absence...I would love for the Lakers to win their next four games, as I predicted before the Kobe suspension...Profit is Kobe's most reliable back-up though, so the Lakers are really gunna feel his absence in these next 2 games...PeACe
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There was a foul on the Mihm jumphook aswell. Phil said V. Wafer might start, I got a feelin he can be a good surprise
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Danksauce...Wafer is part of our future, should be interesting to watch him in his first start (hopefully he gets some real minutes).
Now_Im_Not_Banned:
--- Quote from: E-Crazy on December 31, 2005, 01:38:54 AM ---
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--- Quote from: Don Jacob on December 31, 2005, 01:21:22 AM ---some of the biggest pussies reside on this board, so calling kobe a pussy is stupid
people dogged kobe for NOT fighting chris child.....he displays good sportsmanship and he's a pussy
now you're saying because kobe threw an aggravative elbow he's still a pussy for fighting back?
okay i see the pussy mentallity....
these players must be pussies then:
charles barkley
karl malone
dennis rodman
scottie pippen
ron artest
ben wallace
jermaine o'neal
shaquille o'neal
michael jordan
larry bird
moses malone
alonzo mourning
allen iverson
stephon marbury
i can go on and on.....
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I never called kobe a pussy, he's just a bad sport, he should have tried to sock the dude at least, by elbowing him and playing dirty is disrespectful to the game.
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dude shut the fuck up, you need to get laid or something, you got too much seman in your system
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What Are You, Retarded? if someone hits you in the head are you going to walk away, then hit him in the balls when he is least expecting it? dude, YOU are a dumbass
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LOL, I think elbowing someone and hitting them in the nuts is a little different...
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