Shaq's suspension set

Actually it is 3 games.


O'Neal suspended three games without pay for fight

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ESPN.com news services


NEW YORK -- Shaquille O'Neal of the Los Angeles Lakers was suspended for three games without pay and fined $15,000 by the NBA on Monday for throwing a punch at Brad Miller of the Chicago Bulls.

Charles Oakley of the Bulls was suspended for two games and fined $10,000, and Miller got one game and $7,500 for the fight, which occurred with 2:44 remaining in the fourth quarter of the Bulls' 106-104 overtime victory Saturday.

Miller and Oakley were both charged with flagrant fouls, which carry an automatic one-game suspension. Oakley's foul gave him six flagrant-foul points for the season, one over the allowable total, resulting in an additional one-game suspension.


The penalties were announced by Stu Jackson, the NBA's senior vice president for basketball operations.











http://espn.go.com/nba/news/2002/0114/1311309.html

 

Miller got fined and suspended for getting punched in the back of the head.

 

Ridiculous. Shaq should've received no less than 10 games.

 

If you are being serious, I might have to agree.

Here's an interesting perspective on how he should be punished!

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/columns/20020114/onealsactionswerebrutala.html

 

bull**** , 10 games at least . If it was Samaki Walker you bet your ass it would have been 10 games .

 

MoesT and RM95, please give a more detailed explanation as to why y'all feel this way. I'm not saying that I disagree with y'all, but RM95, you give no criteria and use the word "should". MoesT, why do you think Samaki would get 10 games? Remember when Camby chased after some white center (I forgot who) and swung and hit Van Gundy (who stepped in)? He got 5 games and the Knicks were saying the NBA was being harsh bc it was Camby.

 

I'm completely serious. He could've killed Miller with that punch, and was trying to by choking him with his jersey.

Camby got 5, and at least he had blood to show for his snap...Shaq's just a huge p***y.

And to think I was starting to like him.

 

It was Danny Ferry.

 

This is ludicrous. Camby didn't even make contact with the guy. Shaq got on top of Miller and got into a melee that took several players to break up.

 

The league probably took into account the fact that Shaq was getting hammered really hard throughout the game, not just that one incident. I still believe that he should've gotten 5 games. If it'd been a player on the Rocket's team, it'd been 5 games for sure. The superstars do get preferential treatment though.

 

I agree with them and will give it my best explanation. Kenyon Martin is a much better player than Samaki Walker. Additionally, as last year's ROY and on a promising NY area team, he is a well-known basketball player as well. Yet, when he intentionally fouls T-Mac in what looks to be a very hard foul, but nothing near the type of swing Shaq tried to unload, he recived (corrected) 2 games suspension. Shaq takes a swing that could have ended Miller's career and recieves only one extra game.

Plain and simple: It's a farce. It's a disgrace to the Bulls, Miller and the rest of the league.

I like tough hard basketball too (although not as much as I prefer run and gun), but when did fistfights become okay again? Didn't Kermit Washington get kicked out of the league for doing the exact same thing (only landing the punch - is it really that different)?

 

This is PROOF that the "fix" is on for LA. An absolutely piss-weak punishment. He should've been suspended for at least 5 games/Camby.

Camby didn't bring the game "into disrepute" (an Aussie Rules penalty for when a player causes **** to hit the fan, and they can't throw anything bigger at them. Normally results from a brawl or ref handling, with a nasty suspension + fine) and cause an all-in fight. He didn't try to choke someone (spreewell level suspension anyone???).

THe fact that Shaq tried to do serious damage should get him suspended for longer (as Stu Jackson said as justification for the Camby suspension). Only the fact that Shaq punches like a girl saved Miller from the spinal unit/intensive care/morgue and shaq from courts and mega suspension.

An different perspective - MoT got suspended for 2 more games than "swing-that-arm-shaq" for puffing on a joint!

 

Martin was suspended 1 game for the Malone incident, and 2 games for McGrady.

McGrady got a free pass after being ejected for headbutting Martin.

 

I was shocked when I heard Shaq Fool's suspension was only 3 games. That's silly.

 

I was way off then?? Nonetheless, it still works. What KMart did wasnt even in the vicinity of what Shaq did, but Shaq only gets 1 more game.

 

There's a difference between attempted murder and murder.


3 games is a bit light but not extreme..Chris Childs/Kobe Bryant anyone? Just because he's bigger than everybody else doesn't mean that he should be suspended longer for whiffing.


Now if it was 5 games + some boxing lessons I might have to agree.

 

Attempted Murder?? What is that? They don't give a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry!

 

Shaq did more than whiff. In addition to that punch that could have killed Miller, he got on top of the guy and tried to do some serious damage to him. There was some serious malicious intent going on there.