<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."I haven't seen a precedence for this. There's unintentional elbows that take place in a game all the time," Bryant told reporters at Madison Square Garden following the Lakers' shootaround. "I'm blown away by it. It makes no sense."The NBA news release announcing the suspension said Bryant was being penalized for "striking" Ginobili, but there was no further explanation given in regards to whether league vice president Stu Jackson felt the contact was intentional.Players association officials said it was highly unusual, if not unprecedented, for a player to be suspended for inadvertent contact."We're asking for an immediate hearing, and given Kobe's availability in New York, he's offered to meet with the commissioner or appropriate league officials to review the tape and explain what happened," union spokesman Dan Wasserman said. "Kobe can be at the league office on literally 10 to 15 minutes notice."</div>http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2748084Stern... :thumbsdown:
So Posey gets suspended 1 game for trying to break Loul Deng's wrist, yet Chapu and now Kobe get suspended 1 game for inadvertant elbows?? Man, the Bulls should think this over and consider a Posey-esque foul on Wade, knowing that they'll only be suspended one game
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jon_Vilma @ Jan 30 2007, 02:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Maybe he shouldn't rape innocent women. :whistling:</div>Im a Kobe hater, and I still would replace "innocent women" with "slutty whores." And I kinda think the hit was an accident, what kinda Kobe hater am I?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Capt. Comeback @ Jan 30 2007, 06:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Basketball is gay enough, and that commisioner makes it gayer.</div>:yeahthat:What kind of a league is this where guys who hit players with intent to injure (see James Posey) get the same punishment as guys who elbow someone with no intention to injure
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (DevinHester23 @ Jan 30 2007, 05:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>So Posey gets suspended 1 game for trying to break Loul Deng's wrist, yet Chapu and now Kobe get suspended 1 game for inadvertant elbows?? Man, the Bulls should think this over and consider a Posey-esque foul on Wade, knowing that they'll only be suspended one game</div>Don't ever talk sports again. You're the most biased spammer ever. :glare:
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Brooksie5 @ Jan 31 2007, 05:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (DevinHester23 @ Jan 30 2007, 05:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>So Posey gets suspended 1 game for trying to break Loul Deng's wrist, yet Chapu and now Kobe get suspended 1 game for inadvertant elbows?? Man, the Bulls should think this over and consider a Posey-esque foul on Wade, knowing that they'll only be suspended one game</div>Don't ever talk sports again. You're the most biased spammer ever. :glare:</div>That last comment was a shot at the NBA. :nuttkick: :bigfinger:
