http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2748084<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Kobe Bryant was so stunned and angered by his one-game suspension, he took the extraordinary step Tuesday of asking NBA commissioner David Stern to convene an immediate appeal hearing. As of 3 p.m. ET, the NBA Players Association was still awaiting a response from the league office.Bryant was staying at the Lakers' team hotel just a few blocks from NBA headquarters in Manhattan, and he was on call to dash down Fifth Avenue to Stern's office if the request was granted. But barring the unlikeliest turn of events, Bryant was officially banned from Madison Square Garden for the Los Angeles Lakers' only visit of the season to play the Knicks."I've been waiting to play here, it's always been a fun place for me to play here, and I'm surprised. Shocked, by it, actually," Bryant said. "I unintentionally caught Manu Ginobili. What do you say, it's a basketball game. You unintentionally catch people with elbows every once in a while."The suspension, for elbowing the Ginobili while Bryant was attempting a jump shot late in the Lakers' game against the Spurs on Sunday, caught Bryant completely off-guard.</div>BULL f*cking sh*t!!!!! Wade does this all the time and has he ever gotten suspended? No. Gilbert Arenas? No.
well its good that he's tryin for an appeal hearing, that suspension was just dumb. how could people fall for that bein intentional (the elbow or punch watever).
