Booker didn't get into any serious altercations during the regular season last year did he? All I remember was the near-fight with Griffin in the pre-season.
Does anyone here seriously expect Booker to lose it in the playoffs? I think he is much more measured than he is being given credit for.
Who knows. Perhaps he wanted to convince the league that he and the Jazz are not to be messed with, but the unintended consequence is that some fans assume he is a "reckless" angry dude.
NBA should in my mind suspend that fake tough guy for basically challenging Booker's manhood. There would've been no altercation had said fake laker tough guy doesn't walk ten feet to initiate contact in the first place.
I do feel the NBA should look at suspending the instigator who asks to be bitchslapped. It's one thing if Booker walks up to said player and hits him. It's another when an idiot player sticks his nose in someone else's fight and escalates it when the whole thing is over.
With that said the punishment for Booker is fair.
Yeah plus he instigated the whole situation, correct me if I'm wrong but in a normal court of law the person who initiated the contact is usually at fault most of the time.
You're right.
"Players and coaches will now be docked $2,000 for each of their first five technical fouls. The costs rise to $3,000 for the next five, followed by $4,000 for Nos. 11-15. Starting at 16, players are suspended one game for every two technicals, along with $5,000 for each" - per https://www.nba.com/2010/news/10/01/techs-fines.ap/index.html
Yeah, I think this has a well-earned reputation as being a positive side-effect after being qualified. And it's possible someone better than him needs minutes.If you don't need him, why pay him? Why consider as teammate?
This is a team game and every player affects others good or bad. If you think this boosts up chemistry and is needed for good chemistry, trying picking up fights all the time and we shall see if the chemistry stays.
Assumptions are assumptions until they become facts.
Bah.Booker is going to harm team morale with his film theory. He's also going to convert to Fundamentalist Mormonism and take extra wives.
You're right. This is more fun than I thought.
Yeah, I think this has a well-earned reputation as being a positive side-effect after being qualified. And it's possible someone better than him needs minutes.
He doesn't take ****. He sticks up for his team, his teammates, and himself. Into it.