Need anymore proof?

[TheCount]

Need anymore proof that the NBA is a joke? Stuff like this is the reason my NBA fandom stopped in 2005.

Ron Artest should have been suspended indefinitely after what he did. This isn't the first, or the 5th time. The guy has been suspended more game than exists in an entire season. Then he pulls this **** and only gets 7 games?

NBA = Trash.

If I were James Harden, I would sue the every living **** out of the NBA. If I were other players, I would join the suit and make it class action accusing the NBA of not protecting the players from dog **** like Artest.

Artest's NBA career should be over.

Mrs. Harden, is that you? :laugh2:

Good lord, y'all are crying more than Harden ever would. Artest is a crazy mofo, no doubt but the idea that a crazy mofo is the reason the NBA is bad is laughable.

Look at what you're talking about right now. You made a new thread to discuss Ron Artest.

Not the top scorer duel between Durant and Kobe. Not the resurgent Knicks, or how good Carmelo has been as of late. Not the abysmal Bobcats. Not Steve Nash's probable last game as a Sun. Not the trickeration the Spurs have been playing with their vets all year, and that with no one paying attention they look like a title contender. Not Howard's back surgery and questions about whether he will be the same afterwards.

No, you want to discuss "The Elbow", crazy Ron Artest and how much the NBA sucks.

 

[Cowboys&LakersFan]

You're not allowed to talk about stuff that happen before you were born. (which is not true anyhow)

I don't think you of all people should tell me why I can't talk about. :laugh2:

 

[YosemiteSam]

no doubt but the idea that a crazy mofo is the reason the NBA is bad is laughable.

No, I said the NBA (front office) is a joke. This is just another instance of WHY it's a joke and complete crap. My complete and utter distaste for the NBA started in the 2002 Western Conference Finals when the NBA screwed the Kings over because the Lakers made for a better NBA Championship series. I finally gave up on the NBA mid-season 2005.

The funny thing is, while I'm obviously not a Laker fan, I don't hate the Lakers. I absolutely hated the Kings. (couldn't stand Chris Webber, Vlade Divac, or Doug Christie) Yet, it was in defense of the Kings that started my distaste for the NBA.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

Ron Artest wasn't suspended, Metta WorldPeace was. They are not the same person, Metta is an improved Ron.

7 games is enough.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

No, I said the NBA (front office) is a joke. This is just another instance of WHY it's a joke and complete crap. My complete and utter distaste for the NBA started in the 2002 Western Conference Finals when the NBA screwed the Kings over because the Lakers made for a better NBA Championship series. I finally gave up on the NBA mid-season 2005.

The funny thing is, while I'm obviously not a Laker fan, I don't hate the Lakers. I absolutely hated the Kings. (couldn't stand Chris Webber, Vlade Divac, or Doug Christie) Yet, it was in defense of the Kings that started my distaste for the NBA.

was it a joke when they set it up for Ewing to be a Knick?

 

[WV Cowboy]

Yeah, that was extremely dangerous... He could have really, really hurt Harden. Imagine if he got him squarely in the temple.

Hair stood up on my neck, and my knees almost buckled when I saw that replay for the first time, ... because I had the exact same thing happen to me in a pick-up tackle football game when I was 23. Except the guy didn't miss, he hit me squarely on the cheekbone.

When thrown like that, the back of the elbow hits like a sledgehammer.

We were playing tackle football, and I had put my R shoulder in the guys chest, which put my head beneath his R arm, when he drew back like RA did and clocked me just below my temple, on my R cheek bone, with his elbow.

I felt like I had been hit by a truck.

Broke bones in 5 places, .. up the orbitor bone around my eye (I still have a pin holding that in place), out along the cheek bone towards my ear, and the bone under my eye was literally shattered. They had to replace it and put a nylon subsitute back in during surgery.

A nerve was pinched that runs through the skull, paralyzed one side of my face. Thank Heavens it was not severed or it would have always been that way. 98% of my feeling came back in the weeks after surgery.

The ENT Dr. went in through my mouth, cutting my facial skin away from inside my mouth/gum and lifted it up to get to those bones. Major facial surgery.

I don't follow the NBA, don't have a favorite team or player so I am not biased in any way.

What RA did was very dangerous, malicious, and dirty. There is truly something wrong with that guy.

 

[TheCount]

No, I said the NBA (front office) is a joke.

You didn't say say the words "front office" once in your rant actually, but if you're complaining about Stern then maybe say Stern? You'll have to understand the confusion when you say "NBA = Trash" and "Need anymore proof that the NBA is a joke?".

If I have a problem with Goodell's cap ruling against the Cowboys (and boy do I), I don't say "NFL = Trash", I'd say "Goodell = Trash".