air gordon wrote:conflicting reports on the cheap shot speculation now. i'm not sure if an 8 game suspension is enough or too much. from the articles, it sounds like the bulls followed league protocol and contacted the league front office in the matter
at the least portis should be forced to wear a protective mask as long as he's on the team/Niko has to wear the mask.
According to multiple witnesses, Portis and Mirotic had a heated confrontation in practice, resulting in an apparent shoving match. Portis, however, took it a step further, landing what was deemed a “sucker punch’’ to Mirotic’s face.
According to several witnesses, tensions heightened between Portis and Mirotic during a competitive scrimmage. Several words were exchanged over trips up and down the court. Some shoving escalated matters and Mirotic once moved in Portis' direction. And then Portis landed the lone punch, which placed Mirotic on the ground for several minutes before his hospital trip.
shadowgrin wrote:Is Portis even that talented or a player with good potential for Bulls management to look the other way for what he did and just give him a slap on the wrist? Asking you Bulls fans.
Andrew wrote:I think there's some talent and potential there, but certainly not enough to not come down harder on him. In fact, I would suggest that even if he was better with even greater potential, there'd still be no excuse for them going easy on him. You don't want to tolerate those actions from anyone, and if you're talking about a young player that you hope will mature into a key player for the team, it's something you need to address and make clear right now.
Andrew wrote:Who could ever forget about Marty Conlon?
Walker said the Lakers players would put down $100 each in a pot on whoever could make a half-court shot first. After a road trip to Cleveland, Bryant won the half-court contest one day and Walker expected that he would have 48 hours to pay up his share of the pot.
“It wasn’t even 48 hours, Kobe comes to me on the bus, asking me where his $100 is, believe it or not,” Walker said. “Out of all the people, he chose me, which is still to this day puzzling. I told him, ‘Man, I don’t have no $100 on me right now. First of all, why are you coming at me for $100?’ With that being said, I put my earphones back on, and once I put my earphones back on, the most amazing thing happened. Kobe, he sucker punched me.”
The hit resulted in a black eye. Walker asked head coach Phil Jackson to stop the bus and wanted to take the fight outside before Bryant declined. Jackson called it an isolated incident between Walker and Bryant and nothing drastic.
Walker went to add that he and Kobe are still friends.
air gordon wrote:Tomato tomaato, valor haha. To me if they were already getting physical and then Portis clocked Niko when Niko approached him- it's not a cheap or sucker punch. But hey I'm not condoning the behavior
shadowgrin wrote:tbf both were in the wrong there, Kobe for the sucker punch bitch move and Samaki for the dick move of not paying a bet.
Valor wrote:Did you see his justification for the Bell trade? "Needed to build equity with owners"
On more positive notes, we actually scored over 100 points and didn't lose by 20+. That's practically a win with this team. I'll take it.
"We had 60-win seasons," Noah says. "We would go into summers, like, really believing that we could win a championship. That's rare. ... So yeah, I miss that grind with those guys, believing that we had a shot of winning a championship. That was the best. Believing that you can win a championship is the best."
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