<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>NEW YORK, April 24, 2006 ? Ron Artest of the Sacramento Kings has been suspended one game without pay for making forearm contact to the head of Manu Ginobili of the San Antonio Spurs, it was announced today by Stu Jackson, NBA Senior Vice President Basketball Operations. The incident occurred with 9:07 remaining in the third period of the Spurs? 122-88 win over the visiting Kings at AT&T Center on April 22. Artest will miss Game 2 of the series, which will be played at the AT&T Center on Tuesday, April 25.</div>www.nba.com
Him and Haslem both doing stupid things, while the Heat might not need Haslem as much the Kings do, this is stupid for soemone who is the supposed leader of the Kings.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>It will punish his team too, so theyll stop him from doing it</div>nothing will make Artest stop acting like an idiot, he's a headcase and will always be one.
There's a thread on this in the Playoff forum. And like I said there, Artest did nothing wrong. If anyone should be suspended it should be Manu Ginobli who caused Artest to get stitches because of his hit on him. Artest was just being physical and that's the only way you can beat the Spurs. Bowen gets away with more cheap shots than anybody. You have to beat them at their own game. He didn't even hit him that hard. It's unfair because it ruins any chance the Kings had at winning or taking the series anywhere and Stern is stupid for doing this.
Yeah for anyone else it is just a flagrant foul but for Artest it is a suspension. Talking about having a short leash.
This suspension is a load of <Censored>, when it happened nobody on the court seemed to notice nor did the player he hit. It was a dumb thing to do but come on, if Kobe did this you know damn right he wouldn't get suspended.
