Colin Cowherd: “It wasn't like the old ejections where you swing at someone, knock them down, and they kick you out for the game, it was a second technical and an automatic ejection… Mavericks fans keep saying this was ‘WEAK’. No, no, no. If you are one speeding ticket away from losing your license, I don’t want to hear that you only went 9 miles per hour over the speed limit. You say it’s the refs fault, but it’s Porzingis’ fault. He’s an adult who knows the rules. He’s smart, and he knows it, and he admitted it after the game. Of all the professional leagues – the owners know it, the coaches know it, the GMs know it, the players know it, the rookies know it, and even the trainers know it –– they have seminars on it –– this league is hyper-sensitive to fighting because the ‘Malice at the Palace’ was such a black eye to the sport… In the NBA, if you leave a box and move a foot past a line during a skirmish, you’re suspended for a game… In baseball, pitchers sprint 60 yards to join the fight. In hockey they wrestle for a while and try to knock each other out in front of the refs. In football guys push and track talk, but that’s not the way it is in basketball and everyone knows the rules.” (Full Segment Above)
Listen to Colin Cowherd explain why Mavericks fans and the NBA media need to stop coming out of the woodworks to denounce NBA officials for costing Dallas Game 1 of their series vs. the two-seeded Clippers in a game that was marred by the controversial ejection of Mavericks All-Star Kristaps Porzingis.
Check out the video above as Colin details why everyone connected to the sport knows how serious the league takes after the whistle extracurriculars ever since the horrors of 2004’s ‘Malice at the Palace’, and says how Porzingis has to take 100% responsibility for putting himself into the crosshairs of NBA officials who have been meticulously trained to strictly police fighting in the sport of basketball.
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