Total BS. That's just a regular foul. The League wouldn't rescind everything from the decision of the refs. Now, the League must explain to fans how Rondo's foul on Miller wasn't a flagrant but Artest's foul on Gasol was? It's obviously double standard.
From the pictures it certainly doesn't look like he did, lol. Someone needs to post a video if it because the pictures show all the wrong steps in the sequence if so.
So, at least the world hasn't totally flipped its lid. Unfortunately, they can't exactly give us back the Ron Artest that they keep stealing from us just because he's Ron Artest.
He was clearly going for the ball on that play. Funny, Lakers fans telling us that we should "quit crying over a physical game" - Please. That was a regular, hard foul. That's it.
Man, that's a ridiculously close play to call. Certainly not a flagrant 2 and I'm 99% sure that's not a flagrant 1. It is a good hard foul though but artest ended up getting more of gasol than the ball in the end.
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I hate the NBA for making calls DURING the game that can effect the outcome such as EJECTIONS and they think they can just say "oh sorry we made a mistake and will take it back" while the game is OVER? This makes no mistakes and they already made TWO of these "mistakes" in only 3 games? You now know that it will be impossible to win this series, the NBA simply wont let us.
This is an effin' joke!!! We would have lost both games with Artest being thrown out but the stupid calls denied us an opportunity to see if we would have a chance to win. I'm seriously pissed. It's not fair at all.
Even Kobe said, after the game: that's just a regular foul, with a play on the ball. If you haven't seen his comments to ESPN (right after the game), it actually gave me the tiniest bit of respect for him. He was disgusted by the call.
I feel bad for Artest, who has been misofficiated twice in a row... What's worst, he was ejected twice from these mistakes... If the league did this to Artest again for a 3rd time, no doubt that the league is trying to protect the Lakers from potentially getting "hurt", which would reduce their income for the final championship with Lebron...
