If the NBA wants the past-conduct precedent set by suspending Draymond Green to maintain a modicum of credibility, the Memphis Grizzlies will play without Dillon Brooks Monday night in Game 4 of their first-round series against the Lakers.
Why? Because Brooks was ejected from Game 3 last Saturday night due to a flagrant-2 groin shot by LeBron James. A flagrant-2 does not automatically equate to a one-game suspension, but when the league expressly announced that Green’s punishment was “based in part on Green’s history of unsportsmanlike conduct,” it placed a standard known dirty players will be punished differently. , even for the same or similar works, than those with a cleaner reputation.
Brooks’ reputation is not clean. He was considered by many to be a dirty, hostile player; basically Draymond Green, just not as good. And the numbers back it up. Brooks leads the league this season with 18 technical fouls. His two flagrants may not sound like much, but no one in the league has more than three.
Brooks has been mocking LeBron in the media all series. If the league considers all of this and still doesn’t suspend Brooks, the Green suspension, which I argue. an overreactiondoesn’t seem like a very reasonable judgement.
Brooks’ act itself, like Green stepping on Domantas Sabonis’ chest after Sabonis wrapped his ankle and knocked him off balance, probably didn’t deserve an ejection. You could argue that he goes for the ball when LeBron crosses his back, but you could also argue Brooks leading with the back of his hand isn’t exactly a natural way to steal.
Either way, the league should bring Brooks’ history into this decision. The Green suspension is too recent to err on the side of continuing its standard.
Adding ore context to this situation, James Harden and Joel Embiid have recently come under fire for delivering groin shots. Embiid’s came in Game 3, and was arguably the worst of them all — a full-on kick from the bottom without a full possession in an attempt to make a legitimate basketball play, which is a for reasons to be announced. apparent judgments.
Embiid wasn’t even given a flagrant-2 for this. Just a flagrant-1, which does not result in an ejection. This is a ridiculous judgment. There is nothing close to a basketball game in that action. In fact, consistency is not a strength in NBA officiating or subsequent penalties. There is no sane world where Embiid isn’t fired thatbut Harden is for it…
However, Harden was fired for it, and it largely mirrored Brooks’ offense. You can look at that play and say that Harden put in a little more accuracy and popped that elbow, but it’s at least arguable that he simply made a forward basketball move in the touch- ot space, as it is at least arguable that Brooks makes a play on the ball with LeBron and Green rebuilds his balance after Sabonis grabs his foot.
So if all these games resulted in ejection, then the only issue at hand is how to rule it after the fact. Harden, despite being issued a flagrant-2, was not suspended for Game 4. The reason for that, of course, is that he has no history of these types of incidents. But Brooks did.
And that’s the precedent the league established with its ruling in Green — that the same exact action could, and actually does now. THERE which can be judged differently for different players with different histories. Harden caught a pass. There is no green. And by that standard, neither could Brooks. Well, unless the NBA wants to look extra crazy for the Green suspension.
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