Suspension

Draymond Green let his Golden State Warriors teammates down by allowing his emotions get the best of him in Game 4. He inexplicably reacted to LeBron James stepping over him in the fourth quarter and was retroactively assessed another flagrant, forcing him to watch Game 5 as a spectator outside Oracle Arena. The Warriors lost [...]

Watching the Golden State Warriors from afar in Game 5, as a bystander at an Oakland Athletics game, was a bittersweet affair for Draymond Green. Yes, he wanted his team to win, to clinch its second straight NBA title. But, after being suspended for one game, part of him also had to want another crack [...]

The Houston Rockets are not the New England Patriots, Dwight Howard is not Tom Brady and the NBA is not the NFL. Thus, the big man isn’t supposed to be harshly reprimanded for his shady tactics during Houston’s loss to the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday night. Here’s video of Paul Millsap’s reaction to the incident, [...]

Blake Griffin hasn’t suited up since Christmas, and that’s not changing anytime soon. The Los Angeles Clippers, in conjunction with the NBA, released a statement detailing Griffin’s punishment for punching the team’s assistant equipment manager, an incident that left him with a fractured right hand. Here’s the press release, courtesy of ProBasketballTalk’s Kurt Helin: The [...]

May 17, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors It’s not easy being a red-headed basketball player. If you were a youngster thinking you were against all odds to make the NBA as it is, try having red-hair. I can count on one hand how many NBA players over the past decade have been red-heads. Personally, I [...]

April 5, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors This flagrant foul call on Russell Westbrook in last night’s Thunder-Heat game will certainly be highly scrutinized over the coming day or two. Main reason why? The flagrant was on the NBA’s prized superstar, Lebron James. No one wants any player to be put in a position that [...]

April 23, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Today the NBA announced the one game suspension (Game 4) for both Zaza Pachulia of the Atlanta Hawks and Jason Richardson of the Orlando Magic. Pachulia and J-Rich were both involved in an altercation in the closing minutes of Game 3 (video after the jump). The league’s disciplinarian, [...]

March 04, 2011 – Joshua Sexton On Wednesday, it was announced that Brandon Davies would be suspended from the BYU basketball team for the remainder of the basketball season after breaking the school’s honor code. It is still under review if Davies will be allowed to stay enrolled at the university. When the story originally [...]

January 31, 2011 – Kevin Burke Does anybody remember when O.J. Mayo was on the cover of countless magazines back in the day? He was barely in high school when he was coverboy for a myriad of basketball print publications. He took that hype to the University of Southern California where he played for one [...]

December 28, 2010 – Allen Moll To the average person, Mississippi State sophomore forward Renardo Sydney has been given way more chances to succeed at the collegiate level than most. Apparently the 6’10 and 270 lb one time prized recruit doesn’t agree as he was caught on national television having a knock-down, drag-out fistfight with teammate [...]