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37-year-old Bob Myers — a former player agent with just one year of front office experience — has completed...

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  1. First of all, Mark Jackson is a religious man. Of course he is going to say something neutral and forgiving. An eye for an eye is never the answer.

    Second of all, there is no way anyone is going to convince me that his act was NOT intentional.

    For someone to make an effort in changing his name to something positive like Meta World Peace, Ron Fartest (not a typo) did exactly what he intended. Same old violent Ronny.

    There is no excuse for that type of aggression. A true hero never celebrates at the expense of hurting another player. Fartest saw Harden and made contact — with all the intention of flooring Harden with his elbow.

    Fartest’ comment: “I just watched the replay again….. Oooo..My celebration of the dunk really was too much… Didn’t even see James ….. Omg… Looks bad” should have been prefaced with an apology. End of story.

    Hope he is proud to join the dirty ranks of Pepe and other dirty players in UNprofessional sports. If Fartest doesn’t get the suspension for the rest of the season, then it is the NBA’s failure to do the right thing AND clearly, they have vested interests in the Lakers being in the championship.

    @metaworldpeace #stillaheadcase

  2. 5 game suspension would be fair.

    Slow-mo makes MWP look malicious, but he definitely didn’t have intentions to legitimately hurt anyone. You can’t react fast enough in real speed to think, “Just did a crazy dunk, there’s James Harden, imma raise my elbows up and give him a haymaker to injure him.”

    He was celebrating, was pounding his chest so his arms were already coming up anyway, felt someone on him, and wanted to clear out so that he can continue his celebration (which of course isn’t right). Didn’t matter who was in his way. Had this been Perkin or Ibaka, there’d be no concussion and incident wouldn’t look as bad.

    Other things to consider:

    1. Howard elbow on Dalembert 2009 – knew who was on him, deliberate raising of elbow for a hit…1 game suspension.

    2. Jason Smith on Blake Griffen 2012- saw player from afar, calculated his action, delivered hit…2 game suspension.

    5 games would be appropriate. Along same lines of Bynum on Barea (also 5 games). Different from above because Harden got a concussion.