Golden State handled it pretty good. He's gonna miss games anyway, might as well call that time way "suspension". While withholding pay for violation of contract. I wonder if they'll pocket all the money, or consider it $7 mil extra so toward an in-season acquistion.
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He violated his contract so they found a way to not pay a guy who will be on the bench injured. Good move. By the time his contract is up he will have forgotten about this. You can be sure GS would not have done this if Ellis only had a year or two left on his contract.
Reminds me of the old joke: Riding a moped is like sleeping with an ugly woman -- it might be fun, but you sure hope your friends don't find out you did it.
Are you dating a larger woman who might read this forum? The reason I say this because one of my ex-gf was chubby and I remember having to tweak fat jokes by replacing "fat" with "ugly."
What ever happened with Kellen Winslow after his motorcycle accident? Did the Browns dock his pay or penalize him?
I am not dating a fat woman. In fact, my current gf is too skinny, if anything. That's just the way I heard that joke -- although now that I think of it, I did hear it from a fat woman. Hmm...
The charges were dropped on Rafer, so what would be be punished for? There were no witnesses to back up the claims of the victim even though they were at a night club.
The move is essentially saying, You chose to do something dangerous in breach of your contract, so you will be paying for the time lost to injury, not us.
Ellis might appeal the suspension http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/2008-10-12-notes-ellis-suspension-appeal_N.htm
