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NBA Rules? Racist As F*ck!

How come this…

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Got Amare Stoudamire and Boris Diaw 1 game suspensions in a huge playoff game while the antagonist Robert Horry got 2 games.

But this…

Is simply part of the game and gets you a few minutes in the penalty box?

Hmmmmmm…

Is the Gotdamn Editor-In-Chief going to pull out the race card? You gotdamn right I am!

Look, the fact of the matter is that the NBA has been trying to “clean up” (read: whiten up) its image for quite some time now. The dress code alone was a reactionary precaution to the "thug" image the NBA didn't want to perceive (which is ultimately bullshit because many have no problem with suits, it should be up to the team to make those decisions IMHO). The fact also remains that the league is run by white men with a majority of black men running around in it so at the end of the day those corporate white guys don’t want a bunch of “thugs” messing up the game they love to make money off of.

Now I’m not saying Robert Horry shouldn’t have received a suspension because he very well should have for plowing poor Steve Nash (didn’t it look like he killed him?), but the league rules that say a player cannot leave the bench area are clearly retarded. Why you ask? Simple. It was put in place so situations like the infamous Pistons/Pacers brawl wouldn’t happen again. That scared the SHIT outta white people. I personally was appalled by the players behavior but I was also just as appalled by the fans behavior. The little fat guy who jumped on the court and got mauled by a sliding Jermaine O’Neal right cross is still hilarious to me today. I don’t know what the hell he was thinking. At any rate…

Now back to the essence of the argument. The fight scared the shit outta white people. So David Stern and the corporate suite conglomerate devised a plan to make sure that a fight of that magnitude would never happen again (which was already in place but reinforced even harder). The rule stipulates that any player who leaves the bench area during an on court altercation will be automatically suspended for one game. Now that should have made life pretty simple. You see two people fighting and you watch. That’s that. But there’s this thing called human emotion that most people (black & white) have. When one of your boys are about to get into an altercation you want to diffuse the situation before it happens but you can’t do that yelling “stop guys!” from the bench. Or you may just want to make sure that nothing happens which most people do when we all know shit is really not going to happen.

What Amare and Boris did was try to get a closer look at what happened to the decimated Steve Nash (who looked like he got hit with a Street Fighter II fireball). Right when Amare and Boris realized that the coaches were yelling “Nooooooo!” they turned their asses around. It’s human nature to see what’s going on. But the fact of the matter is that there was no fight so why the hell should there be a suspension? Tim Duncan walked his monkey ass onto the court from the bench after a hard foul but since there was no perceived altercation he wasn’t suspended. Bruce Bowen has been hammering the fuck outta the Suns (knees Nash in the groin and kicks at Amare’s ankles) but he gets nothing.  Hard fouls by Baron Davis and Jason Richardson went unscathed as well. But this deserves a suspension?

Black fights scare the shit outta white people.

White people fighting…

Black people fighting…

Now as sad as it is, the perception is that when white people fight (as they do in hockey) it’s not really dangerous. Some might say it’s actually funny. I’m not saying that there aren’t white people that can’t whip some ass, I’m merely making an observation based on people’s opinions (which can be downright wrong because I’ve seen some white people get in some barnburners that would make the UFC blush). But for some reason, when black folks throw down a whole new sense of danger opens up. When Ron Artest ran into those stands I swore the terror alert went from yellow to red instantly. But a fight in hockey is expected. Hell…people are pissed when one DOESN’T happen. Oh how I can guarantee that wouldn’t be the case if the NHL for some reason became predominantly black.

The worst thing about this whole situation is that it very well may cause the Phoenix Suns a crucial game on the road to the championship. What’s even worse is that this situation may very well be ignored if the Suns somehow managed to find a way to win this game and close out the series in six. The rule is one thing that needs to be argued. People who love the game and want to see a good series know this shit is bogus. But I love the game and I also love my people (well most of them) and there’s much more to this rule and many of the “whitening up” rules the NBA has enforced for the past few years. But it takes a situation such as this to recognize that there very well may be a problem with these stupid ass rules.

People fight. It’s a fact of life. It happens everywhere from the NBA and NHL down to Soccer moms and dads fighting each other. But only in the NBA can you get suspended (not fined which would have made a helluva lot more sense in this situation) for making someone else think that a fight may be on your mind. And as long as the NBA stays black with black players making up such a high percentage of the players, don’t expect these rules to change.    

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