<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">NEW YORK -- Los Angeles Lakers guard Gary Payton and Golden State Warriors guard Speedy Claxton were fined by the NBA on Friday for fighting. Payton was fined $15,000 and Claxton $7,500 for an altercation midway through the third period of Wednesday's game. After Claxton was called for a foul while trying to make a steal, Payton elbowed him in the chest. Claxton angrily shoved away Payton's arm, and Payton wrapped his arms around Claxton while driving him into the scorers' table. Coaches, teammates and officials intervened, with referee Tony Brothers tackling Payton to the floor. Payton was ejected. The Lakers beat the Warriors 100-99.</div> Link Saw QRich3 post it in the Lakers forum, thought I'd add it over here. I don't think it was fair to fine Claxton, but GP definetley deserved it for his wild actions.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Purple N Gold:</div><div class="quote_post">Link Saw QRich3 post it in the Lakers forum, thought I'd add it over here. I don't think it was fair to fine Claxton, but GP definetley deserved it for his wild actions.</div> I think the fines are somewhat fair. At least they charged GP more because he started it. Claxton sounds to me like he was just defending himself so that is not fair for him to get fined.
I don't understand why Claxton got fined. I would be pissed off if I were him. He just got robbed of $7,500.
Yeah,Speedy was just defending himself when he got elbowed.That was just really bad thing GP did.Driving him into the scorers' table?Thats so harsh.Speedy shouldn't have been fined.It's totally Unfair.
Defending himself or not, he didn't even do anything. All Speedy did was give Gary a little shove back, and he gets thrown out for that. I couldn't believe it when they were thrown out, and its rediculous that Speedy has to pay a fine. Players push and shove eachother around all the time, they usually get T's and thats it. Both of them being thrown out is rediculous and it pisses me off, if anyone was going to get ejected it should have been only Gary. I am a Laker fan, but I hate seeing players getting kicked out of games for no reason, even if he were playing for the kings. Speedy got robbed!!
Yeah it was unfortunate because Speedy has been responsible for a lot of the warriors wins. And he got ejected too which the article neglected to mention.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting gina:</div><div class="quote_post">Speedy gets fined for being the victim...how ridiculous. Honestly, I think GP should apologize.</div> You said it. Claxton had 18 points by the time they ejected him. He probably could have gone on to score at least 30.
