I’m not sure that he’ll read it, but I’d like to send an open letter to the commissioner of the NBA, Adam Silver.
Dear Adam Silver,
I hereby request you make an immediate inquiry and set up a team to investigate the issuance of technical/flagrant fouls.
I am not a fan of violence but I am a big fan of creating rivalry and villains among competing teams. As a spectator, what I enjoy is seeing sparks between players evolve making us intrigued with how the next play will unravel.
A little argy bargy and immediately a technical foul is issued, a request as to why and maybe a little foul language and suddenly a player is ejected with their second technical foul.
When I was growing up, my father told me that if someone pushes you, you don’t let them get away with it.
It’s not a thug mentality or childish but simply just because someone pushes you to the ground, you don’t stay on the ground.
We love basketball for the dunks, the three pointers and the silky skills. But we also love the physicality.
I provide you with the Demare Carroll incident where he purposely shoved little Isaiah Thomas to the ground sending him sliding across the floor. Isaiah immediately stood up and went to ask Carroll why. What resulted was mere pushes and shoves which led to a technical foul.
You must send a message to the referees to ‘get their heads out of their asses’ and to let a little rumble happen. This will only fuel a better competition as both teams will be playing high on testosterone.
I don’t want to dive deeper into this issue but will simply mention Demarcus Cousins and leave it at that.
NaBUru38
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I completely disagree. Sports competitors are role models for young and old. They should be respectful to their rivals. It's ok to be angry, but it's not ok to push others.
Mushi
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I'm pretty sure I had jermaine oneal in my fantasy league that year...
joe
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This is the article, a long but really interesting read about that night http://www.espn.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/71226/malice-at-the-palace-a-decade-later
joe
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You guys may have already read the article it was i think on ESPN.com on the 10 year anniversary of the Malace at the Palace,so it was done a few years ago.It was a recap of the whole night with players,trainers,coaches etc all being interviewed about their emotions & their take on the whole thing that went down that night in Detroit. Its a lengthy but great article.Some of the quotes from Artest that night were classic stuff, like when he asked teammates in the locker room afterwards "do you think we'll get in trouble for this?". Definitely worth checking out.That night certainly changed the NBA going forward that's for sure.
Mushi
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Well it was over what 10,000 games ago so not sure it's that prevalent. Pretty sure they've already moderated the approach
OJP
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concur with that Joe; the one thing I would like to see them change is the rules around players leaving the bench during an altercation; I'm on the bench, something breaks out and I get out and walk out onto court, even if I dont get involved in the altercation, I'm automatically suspended. At least thats how I understand it; cost the Suns dearly when Robert Horry slammed Nash into the scorers table during WCF's and from memory, Diaw and Amare were suspended for the next game, Spurs win, go onto finals.
joe
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The Malace at the Palace was the final straw after that whole melee the league came.down on players involved like a ton of bricks.Basically a zero tolerance policy ever since.Not saying i like it but can see why they did it.
astro
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Yeah...nah...Remember that time Ben Wallace gave Ron Artest a little shove? Didn't exactly lead to a more competitive game, did it? After the Pistons-Pacers brawl, the NBA has a zero tolerance policy and that's fair enough. It was a terrible look for the game and damaged the NBA as a product. Can't allow it to come close to happening again...
Mushi
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Let’s just look at the logic here right if it needs to escalate to actual striking to get a tech you’re saying you are happy for each player to punch another player in the face and remain playing, hell you’d even be happy if after they clocked someone they then hurled abuse at the officals when they got the tech. There definitely needs to be some heads extracted form colon's jsut not sure you picked the right ones.
Tom
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The entire point of The Roar is for amateur writers to have a forum to express their opinions. The tagline of the website is "Your Sports Opinion". For the sake of what? Generating debate amongst sports fans. The authors on here are not journalists, and I can't imagine why you would think they are supposed to be. Relax.
Steve
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Again, another "column" on this site full of "I" this and that, "my" opinion is this and that, "I" want this, and "I'm" obsessed with that ... journalism 101 out the window. For the sake of what? Clicks?