I can't believe they suspended Terry

[The.Menace]

DALLAS -- The Mavericks-Spurs series took another wild turn Thursday, with Dallas guard Jason Terry getting suspended from Game 6 for punching former teammate Michael Finley while chasing a loose ball in the closing seconds of Game 5.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs2006/news/story?id=2450020

I can't believe that - come on. the NBA sucks, David Stern sucks. we have this wonderful series and now....they suspend terry. I don't believe this. Why don't you suspend Manu and Finley too for sittin on Terry's head? - or even better, let these guys play ball and sort things out! :fury:

 

[The.Menace]

Mark Cuban, the Mavericks' owner, made the following comments in response to Terry's suspension in an e-mail sent to ESPN on Thursday.

"It's not right, and I told the league so.

"It's certainly not consistent with what the league has done in the past.

"Jason responds to a guy hipchecking him in the head while he is on his back and can't protect himself and he gets suspended. You can't throw a punch while you are on your back and someone is laying on you.

"If Jason had tried to get him off with an open hand, or an elbow, we wouldnt be talking about this at all. Look at [Manu] Ginobli in the replays, he is staring at everything that happens and doesn't respond at all, but all the while you can see the grimace on Jason's face.

"The league also said they didn't know if the [Michael] Finley piledriver with his hip to Jason's head while Ginobli was lying on him was intentional or not. So they couldn't do anything about it.

"Unbelievable. When it's all [said] and done, this series could end up being talked about for all the wrong reasons."

from the same page - I totally agree with Cuban. This is not even funny no more, this is sad.

 

[absolut_dreII]

If Barbosa gets suspended for headlocking Kobe, then Terry should get suspended for throwing a punch.

 

[DEA]

If Barbosa gets suspended for headlocking Kobe, then Terry should get suspended for throwing a punch.

It was Raja Bell not Barbosa.