Monday, April 24, 2006 Artest suspended one game for hitting Ginobili Associated Press NEW YORK -- Ron Artest of the Sacramento Kings was suspended one game without pay for hitting Manu Ginobili of the San Antonio Spurs in the head with his forearm. The suspension was announced Monday by the league. Artest will miss Game 2 of the Western Conference series on Tuesday. The contact occurred in the third period of the Spurs' 122-88 win Saturday night against the visiting Kings. Artest was hit in the mouth by Ginobili's elbow on the game's opening possession. The cut inside his upper lip required three stitches.
shocking, I tell you. Ron Artest misbehaving? Is the honeymoon over? Is it cold in Nome Alaska? Did the sun come up today? Ron + playoff pressure = disaster
NEW YORK, April 24, 2006 – Ron Artest of the Sacramento Kings has been suspended one game without pay for making forearm contact to the head of Manu Ginobili of the San Antonio Spurs, it was announced today by Stu Jackson, NBA Senior Vice President Basketball Operations. The incident occurred with 9:07 remaining in the third period of the Spurs’ 122-88 win over the visiting Kings at AT&T Center on April 22. Artest will miss Game 2 of the series, which will be played at the AT&T Center on Tuesday, April 25. http://www.nba.com/news/artest_060424.html
That looks awfully familiar to this Pacer fan. It was blatant and intentional. He looks at him, knows what he's gonna do, puts up his elbow, then looks away before initializing contact. typical mo-Ron
this is just the league giving artest a hassle. I swear u cant give no hard fouls or nothing now aday. Might as well call it the WNBA now.
can we get a video clip of this? knowing ginobili's propencity for flopping i wouldnt be suprised to see an intentional hit from him, in which case he got what he deserved.
Its kind of flop-funny that Ginobili gets bumped by the elbow, pauses and then flies down. Damn Euro floppers!!
It looks clearly pre-meditated and Artest probably deserves the suspension. But the only thing that I can think of is that Ginobli's floppery acting drives me up the wall.
But what about 2 years ago in the playoffs when Anthony Peeler gave an intentional forearm/elbow to the face of KG? He got suspended for 2 games. Man, Kings got off lucky on this one... Maybe Manu wanted to get under Ron's skin with the opening shot and his flops, and get him tossed. I doubt he's that smart, but if so, it worked like a charm.
Agreed. Artest's act was clearly intentional and should be punished. But the hit wasn't as hard as Ginobili made it to be.
i just hate how this guy flops, that's just years of playing and watching footbal (the real one ). I know what i'm talking about, i live in Belgium.
