Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 at 3:14 pm  |  148 responses

Ariza Will Not Be Suspended For Flagrant Foul

by Ryne Nelson

When a player gets jacked in the back of the head, tumbles to the ground, ricochets a couple times off the hardwood and gets carried on a stretcher to the hospital, doesn’t that warrant a suspension?

The NBA doesn’t think so: “Lakers forward Trevor Ariza will not be suspended by the NBA for his actions on a flagrant foul Monday night against the Portland Trail Blazers. ‘Ariza will not be further disciplined,’ NBA spokesman Tim Frank said this morning. ‘We are still looking at the aftermath of the play.’”

The “aftermath” included Lamar Odom leaving the bench, getting testy with Brandon Roy. Odom and Roy built some bad blood nearly a year ago in a match at the Rose Garden when Odom was ejected for flagrantly fouling Roy on a drive to the rim. Regardless of the history, it would mark a serious twist of fate if Odom is suspended for getting into a tussle that his teammate–who got out of jail free–initiated.

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  • sho nuf

    Also I gotta say I love how people feel the need to psychoanalyze anything a Laker or the organization as a whole does. “Oh, the Lakers were getting beat down, so Ariza had to make a statement,” “Lebron got his triple-double taken away because of Phil,” blah blah blah. It’s like, you have a team of your own to support, right? People act like the Lakers are on some Illuminati steez.

  • http://www.hibachi20.blogspot.com BETCATS

    “I won’t be on here again.” James u r leaving us? OMG, freakout.

  • http://iwantoutofokc.com/ James the balla

    I will co sign SHO!! But I know this is going to bring up something along the lines of “Lets not go there right now, th Lkaers suck and the debate has been over with” from EBoy!

  • http://iwantoutofokc.com/ James the balla

    BET … I will be back on here … just not tonight. Well more like, in 15 minutes. My nurse is coming over for a sponge bath :P . As much as being hurt sucks … it has some very nice, lets call them attributes that come along with it.

  • http://iwantoutofokc.com/ James the balla

    @ BET … Were you just holding a sequenced purse while freaking out?

  • http://www.hibachi20.blogspot.com BETCATS

    possibly. But that is for thevillagepeopelbuttbutt.com to rave about, or Kanye West and his new ‘girl’ friend.

  • http://iwantoutofokc.com/ James the balla

    Hmmm, this website you speak of. How do you know what this website is? And you seem jealous that Kanye has a gf … are you wishing you were Kanye’s gf?

  • http://www.hibachi20.blogspot.com BETCATS

    have you seen her? She is bald and might be a man. Seriously.

  • http://iwantoutofokc.com/ James the balla

    Naw lol … hold up I will check her out!!

  • http://www.hibachi20.blogspot.com BETCATS

    and i made the website up. Arent you acting like a silly dilly today!

  • http://iwantoutofokc.com/ James the balla

    Yeah … I think that is the nicest name I have got called on this webiste!!

  • http://www.triplejunearthed.com/dacre Dacre

    [ James the balla Posted: Mar.10 at 7:11 pm
    Hey, does anyone know is James White has done good on Houston with his 10 day contract? I hope he gest signed next year just for the dunk comp.]
    ________________________________________________
    If your not going to be on here again…how will you find out the answer?? Face it man you don’t have anywhere else to go…
    ON JAMES WHITE. He played 6 games in the 06-07 season and thats been it…

  • http://iwantoutofokc.com/ James the balla

    Yo, BET, click my name!!

  • http://iwantoutofokc.com/ James the balla

    @Dacre … I am off in a couple buddy … and he just signed a 10 day contract with Houston!

  • http://www.triplejunearthed.com/dacre Dacre

    James the balla Posted: Mar.10 at 7:18 pm
    BET … I will be back on here … just not tonight. Well more like, in 15 minutes. My nurse is coming over for a sponge bath :P . As much as being hurt sucks … it has some very nice, lets call them attributes that come along with it.
    ________________________________________________
    Your nurse has attributes because they are a shemale.

  • http://www.hibachi20.blogspot.com BETCATS

    Well it appears conversating with you is like inviting the kid with the weird odor to sit with you at lunch, but i just love the conversation… Plus everybody up here is secretly plotting against me anyway.

  • http://www.hibachi20.blogspot.com BETCATS

    Darce FTW

  • http://iwantoutofokc.com/ James the balla

    BET … check my name out. KD

  • http://www.hibachi20.blogspot.com BETCATS

    i do like James White though. Lets not bring him into this Darce. He is a good dunker.

  • http://www.triplejunearthed.com/dacre Dacre

    How long ago did he sign…? He hasn’t any stats up on his player file.

  • http://www.hibachi20.blogspot.com BETCATS

    @James, i now do not like you

  • http://iwantoutofokc.com/ James the balla

    Like a couple days ago. I don’t like you either but hey … let’s get KD out!!

  • http://www.hibachi20.blogspot.com BETCATS

    okcthunderfans.com/vforum/member.php?u=1468

  • http://www.triplejunearthed.com/dacre Dacre

    Hmm… well. If he’s in game shape and can play some serious D through March then he might stick around, but personally I don’t see much more happening.

  • http://www.hibachi20.blogspot.com BETCATS

    copy and paste that, you will understand why i now do not like you.

  • http://www.triplejunearthed.com/dacre Dacre

    James White went to Cincinnati – one of my favourite colleges in the NCAA.

  • http://iwantoutofokc.com/ James the balla

    BET you silly man… doesn’t work. I tried the website and IT DOESN’T WORK. EVERYTIME you LIIEEEE!

    WHy doesn’t it work?

  • http://www.hibachi20.blogspot.com BETCATS

    try typing www. in front of it.

  • http://www.hibachi20.blogspot.com BETCATS

    well just try typing www in front of it. But it reveals ‘shocking’ information.

  • http://iwantoutofokc.com/ James the balla

    I did. But you lie …. anyways, I am tired of you BS BET. Im out.

  • http://www.hibachi20.blogspot.com BETCATS

    well it says i am a member of the OKC Thunder Fan forum.

  • Mr.Blue

    Portland players are good actors and laker players are very “active” off the bench

  • The Kandi Raver

    I Like portland though

  • Teddy-the-Bear

    No suspensions why? Because of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

  • Teddy-the-Bear

    Cash Rules Everything Around Me Cream Get The Money, Dolla Dolla Bill Ya’ll

  • Canuck

    How come for every single debatable call/suspension/whatever, some people feel obligated to say Oh but if LeBron did it, it would be a clean play. Is it me or do people constantly exagerate how much he apparently “would probably” get away with / simply hate the guy. Obviously he gets away with stuff, but so does every other superstar. People need to chill out on the LeBron hate. Just saying.

  • http://www.http://courtsidebasketball.blogspot.com/ stu

    @ canuck – im not a lebron hater, far from it, i think the guy is incredible beyond description, i simply think that this wouldn’t be sensationalised like it has been if it was bron, wade, dwight etc..
    @ teddy – not too sure about the $$$ comment – ariza ain’t filling front row at staples..
    @ BET – your ‘cats are lookin good man!
    @ Eboy – was that you they mentioned in Noyz????

  • chintao

    I like Ariza, but this incident was a flagrant warranting suspension. Ariza can really elevate, when he wants to. This time, he just took a vicious swipe from behind. That tells me that he really wasn’t trying to block the shot. The Lakers get the benefit of the doubt again….

  • nate james

    i dont think their any laker fans out their. i just think people who think they know basketball just lke the lakers for kobe.
    i mean how many people would like the lakers if kobe wasnt their?
    or wade and the heat?
    or lebron and clev?
    i hate laker fans just because they are only kobe fans.
    plus that was a hard foul. i think he should got suspended.
    he and his abilitys had no chance to block that.
    it was a hard foul.

  • http://www.sprint.com/sero dma

    i watched this live. and james is a fool to think ariza didn’t hit rudy’s head. they were down 30 at the time. there was no reason to even try to block the shot, which he missed by a mile. then he had the audacity to strut after he popped him. and flopping on rudy’s side? really? why because he’s european? let’s knock some of you guys down midair and see what happens!

  • anon

    james the balla = another reason why there should be an IQ test before one is allowed to post on the internet.

  • http://fdklf.com Jukai

    James, does your nurse also refer to your member as “little?”

  • vtrobot

    you’re an idiot if you’ve watched that replay and you don’t think that ariza hit rudy in the head. pretty much the same thing as clothes-lining him. the end result is the same. he was going for ball a lot more than bynum was. C’s – Jazz finals. should be fun.

  • http://nicekicks.com MeloMan13

    James the balla= pure ignorance

  • howard

    chintao…ariza taking a “vicious swipe”…..wake up mofo, look at the speed, and what was he swiping at?….unless euro’s head is orange and says spalding on it, I call it fair. Ariza was just going for a highlight play, to match those of Shannon Brown’s recently (this bench warmer can hop…Morrison, who they also go for Van’sRad, is done, he runs like a european now…. OK LO blew it, but that’s cuz it was all right in front of him, I won’t dog him, a man has to protect his team. Euro’s fall is what caused ariza to get into all this…say he tried to block Lebron and did the same thing, end result, Lebron would have dunked and Ariza would have bounced off him and woulda have been the one crying on the floor like a euro, then who you gonna call the foul on…
    chintao….do you wanna see a vicious swipe that got a one game penalty, go watch raja bell trying to break Kobe’s neck and back year’s back, got the same one game penalty, and kobe got one game penalty for unnatural movement (act), it’s all this crud that makes the NBA office stink worse than the euro….Raja should have been suspended for 15 plus games, for “assault”….Michael Jordan should not ever have been allowed to play because everything he did was an unnatural act, ….

    James the Balla, I guess since you are had your acl done, that shows you’re a baller….tell me…does the “anterior cranial lobotomy” really take away from your sex drive, do you feel less now for Sasha then you did before? Hey, what pain meds do they have you on???? If it’s only vicodin, then you’re not a man yet…… Just kidding, recover well, I know how much the ligament problems can hurt because I have a medial and anterior that my HMO will not clean up even though the scans showed that they looked like beef jerky, with little shreds….won’t work on it cuz I don’t miss work, isn’t America great, reward the weak…. I guess I’ll have to start missing work, but then I’ll injure my thumbs from Sony PS3….and the fracture in my heel bone (the current scan is worse than the initial scan) which hasn’t healed in over 15 months needs a screw (I do too, but I don’t want to deal with the HMO (high maintenance organism) aka female, that is required for that)….

    Trevor’s swipe was not vicious, to me I’ve seen women in supermarkets make more vicious movements picking peaches than Trevor trying to fly over euro-boy and going for the block….

    I’m beginning to have doubts about Pau’s place on this team….he just does not get back to protect the rim fast enough…..with his high salary, and if they fail this year, I could see where they may decide to move him, if Bynum’s recovery does not fall in line to a championship…so Bynum’s play may decide Pau’s fate…I think he’s a grat player, but they may do something stupid like swap him for Amare (the basket is thataway, dude….)….I like the play of Matt Barnes…definitely worth 1.2 million this year and available next year…more UCLA guys!!!!!

  • speedy

    /\Ouch.

  • http://www.triplejunearthed.com/dacre Dacre

    stop saying euro like its a bad thing. white..?

  • chintao

    @ howard ==> Bronny is strong, but nobody has leverage with both feet in the air. Your assessment of Ariza’s play seems to be heavily influenced by an implied bias against Fernandez. Say what you like, but there is no way a guy with Ariza’s ups makes a play like that and claims he’s going for the ball. All leapers know that you get up first, then target the ball as it’s leaving the shooter’s hands. The play Ariza made was more like, “whack as hard as you can in the general vicinity of the ball to prevent the ‘and-1′, in order to send a serious message in garbage time.” The play was reckless and dangerous, and therefore deserving of a suspension.

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