Originally posted by: Nick5324
Originally posted by: dethman
suspensions handed out today for the brawl two nights ago.
carmelo anthony out 15, jr smith 10, nate robinson 10, mardy collins 6, jared jeffries 4.
both teams fined half a million dollars.
isiah makes it out unscathed. that ass.
If Anthony deserves 15 games, so does Nate Robinson and JR Smith. I still think that if Nate Robinson wasn't on the floor, JR Smith and Mardy Collins would have given each other the evil eye, maybe said something to each other, and then "waited" to be separated by other players or a ref. Robinson ran in there and made a bad situation worse, and then lots of guys decided to act like fools also.
As for Isiah Thomas, it's hard to say what he meant by "don't go to the basket". It is possible he was getting at the Nuggets big lead and that there was no need to run up the score/rub it in their face. After the game he tries to justify the hard foul by saying the Nuggets are wrong to leave their stars in with a big lead. Even if that is true, it doesn't justify an intentional, hard foul. Likely, he feels that since the hard foul was justified, the fight was entirely the fault of the Nuggets players. Thomas needs to worry about getting a competitive team on the floor, then he doesn't have to worry about 'getting upset' when other teams dominate them at home.