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Anonymous
>>125913 >they were clearly attempting to provoke one
Lets go to the video Videotape, watch the last replay of the Horry foul:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hYC95MziMJk
You could make an argument that Stoudemire came onto the court with the intentions to fight, or at least get some shoving in like everyone else, but Diaw isn't doing shit. He's just slowly walking up to see WTF is going on and if Steve Nash still has a head. NY Times:
With the already contentious series tied at two victories apiece, the National Basketball Association took a hard line Tuesday that ended up punishing the Suns far more than the Spurs entering Game 5 on Wednesday night in Phoenix.
After Horrys flagrant foul with 18.2 seconds to play in the Suns 104-98 victory here Monday, Nash and his teammate Raja Bell confronted Horry in a seemingly mild scuffle, without any punches thrown. Suns forwards Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw came off the bench but did not enter the fray.
Horry, a 36-year-old role player, was ejected and suspended for two games, but the league suspended Stoudemire, a first-team all-N.B.A. forward, and Diaw, his backup, for Game 5.
That not only left the already undersized Suns with a gaping hole in their frontcourt, but it also provoked outrage in Phoenix that the league was ignoring common sense in order to protect its rules.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/sports/basketball/16suns.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
The argument Sunsfags are making (I hope) is that Diaw's suspension was largely pedantic, and that if they used common sense instead of lawyering it up, then Diaw gets to play.
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