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NBA suspends Metta World Peace 7 games
Sun Times ^ | 04/25/2012 | GREG BEACHAM

Posted on 04/25/2012 12:50:21 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

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I wish this thug would have received a full one year suspension.
1 posted on 04/25/2012 12:50:23 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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2 posted on 04/25/2012 12:56:12 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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A criminal Battery indictment would have been more appropriate.


3 posted on 04/25/2012 12:56:45 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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I wish this thug would have received a full one year suspension.

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Umm....

Mr. Commissioner:

After 10 previous career suspensions...

And now totally uncalled for ON-COURT VIOLENCE....
...That would get any reasonable person ARRESTED AND JAILED FOR AGGRAVATED BATTERY...

At what point does the NBA re-visit the league's "banned-from-the-game" paradigm??

4 posted on 04/25/2012 12:56:45 PM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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As a life long Lakers fan I want to say that Ron Artest has always been a total A-Hole thug. I'm ashamed to have him on the team and I wish they would just get rid of him.

He's a great physical player but doesn't have the maturity or temperament to control himself, so therefore he's an overall detriment to the team. I guess the Lakers are about to find that out the hard way.

5 posted on 04/25/2012 12:57:07 PM PDT by Bullish
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I think he was off his meds for day.

Seriously.


6 posted on 04/25/2012 12:57:19 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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< The Los Angeles Lakers troublemaker >

Is that a position?


7 posted on 04/25/2012 12:57:47 PM PDT by RitchieAprile
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It's a Laker thing


8 posted on 04/25/2012 12:59:40 PM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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Would this qualify as “workplace violence”?


9 posted on 04/25/2012 1:00:30 PM PDT by red-dawg
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Try and imagine if Whirled Peas were white and beat down a black man like that.

OMG - the race riots would be intense!

But - its another instance of black on black crime so...

No big deal.


10 posted on 04/25/2012 1:04:28 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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They kept it 7 games because they wanted the Lakers in the second round. LA is one of the top three markets, so it is all about the money.


11 posted on 04/25/2012 1:11:23 PM PDT by richardtavor
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That photo doesn’t show the story in my opinion. If you look at the video you see him pounding his chest - I’m the king of the hill, nothing can stop me, nothing can get in my way. That’s the way I would read it.

I don’t think the elbow to the head was deliberate per se, but rather he showed complete disregard for anything around him - he was in a frighteningly dangerous state.


12 posted on 04/25/2012 1:11:56 PM PDT by MrTed ("...at the name of Jesus, every knee will bow...", will it be before or after one's death?)
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Kermit Washington landing a cheap shot on Rudy Tomjanovich.


13 posted on 04/25/2012 1:18:30 PM PDT by dancusa (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. H.L Menkin)
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World Peace must think he is playing Hockey.


14 posted on 04/25/2012 1:18:56 PM PDT by Uncle Slayton
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Oklahoma City has a NBA team?


15 posted on 04/25/2012 1:25:49 PM PDT by GnL
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What a joke. David Stern is the worst commissioner in any league. He essentially ruined the Indiana Pacers for 5 years and took them out of clear contention for the NBA title when Artest started (or arguably provoked) the brawl at the Palace. A much more brutal act against Harden gets him a seat for the first round—not 67 games. Why? Because the Lakers matter for the media package. Small market teams don’t. You NEVER see this in the NFL, where small market teams routinely play for and win it all.

I’m so done with the NBA.


16 posted on 04/25/2012 1:28:18 PM PDT by Zebra
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Really, he pounded his chest multiple times with his right hand, never borught up his left until the elbow, never brought his left to his chest. It was deliberate. If you slow it down, you can see him shoot a stare at Harden.


17 posted on 04/25/2012 1:30:20 PM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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If the elbow wasn’t deliberate it’s only because Artest is so egotistical that he couldn’t be bothered to notice the guy walking up to and past him and TOUCHING him before he swung his elbow. It was either a willful level of ignorance or deliberate, and given the frequency of his suspensions deliberate seems likely.


18 posted on 04/25/2012 1:35:38 PM PDT by discostu (I did it 35 minutes ago)
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Ron Artest became Metta World Peace and then goes on to prove that he should have changed his name to Metta World War :)


19 posted on 04/25/2012 1:39:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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RE: Oklahoma City has a NBA team?

Absolutely, and a damn Good one too !!]

They might even WIN the championship this year ( they have the second best win-lose record this season ).


20 posted on 04/25/2012 1:44:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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