Basically the league’s policy is: “our rules are unclear, but whoever the media decides to center around will be the focus of our punishment.”

Basically the league’s policy is: “our rules are unclear, but whoever the media decides to center around will be the focus of our punishment.”

Kurt: No one would doubt CP3?s will to win and competitiveness on the court, and he seeks every competitive advantage possible, but he’s never been accused of crossing lines.

CP3 did punch a guy in the balls while at Wake Forest.

ruruland:
Sounds like Kenyon said yes. Very exciting.

Is it reported anywhere?

The Honorable Cock Jowles: White people get arrested under NYC’s stop-and-frisk laws, but that doesn’t mean the laws are not racist.

I agree with this, but again, unnecessarily muddling this incident IMO.

Ray Allen supposedly never got along with Rondo especially as Rondo became a star, I think that had a lot to do with why he left.

Kurt: Jon, you make a good point that Kevin Love might be punished similarly. I was partially making a point about the larger media coverage and reaction to different types of incidents and that, even if unintentional, the reaction to such altercations is at least tinged by race. My point putting both Stern’s and the media reaction in that larger context, though I can understand how you’d disagree about this particular case.

White people get arrested under NYC’s stop-and-frisk laws, but that doesn’t mean the laws are not racist.

Massive: I couldn’t agree more about Ray Allen. I was also thinking earlier how it’s great he left the Heat because, other than Doc Rivers (who has no choice but to cover for his player), Allen was the only classy guy on the Celtics.

About Wade, I don’t think he flops anywhere as much as Pierce, right?

About KG being “nice” off the court: notice that all the legends are about him helping teammates and ex-teammates. Is there any record of him being friends with any non-teammates off the court?

Lots of “old school” people love KG’s competitiveness, but I think you can be a true competitor without being an asshole or a “fake punk,” like Oakley put it. Notice also the incident with Ray Allen and KG after he switched to Miami. KG just ignores him and acts like Allen is dead to him despite Allen’s attempt to be classy.

No one would doubt CP3′s will to win and competitiveness on the court, and he seeks every competitive advantage possible, but he’s never been accused of crossing lines. Also, he hosts friends from other teams when they come into his town without it diminishing his competitive fire when they play each other. As much as I find Kobe annoying you could never doubt his will to win while keeping his trash talking within accepted bounds.

You have a right to your opinion, but KG needs to stop crossing the line. He can say and do whatever he wants because he’s KG. You don’t remember him tripping Toney Douglas in Game 1? How about all of the elbows he throws on court? How about calling CV a cancer patient and all he had to do was say “I didn’t say that,” have his coach vouch for him, and have nobody discipline him for it? My point is that trouble seems to follow KG a lot more than it follows anybody he’s had a run in with. He deserves more than a bad rep. He deserves to be disciplined.