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Post by King Silva on Apr 13, 2011 23:14:25 GMT -5
*Sorry if this is not suppose to go here..  Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant was fined $100,000 on Wednesday by the NBA for using a homophobic slur during Tuesday night’s game against the San Antonio Spurs, the Associated Press reports. Bryant became upset after being whistled for a technical foul by referee Bennie Adams; TNT cameras followed him as he walked over to the Lakers’ bench, punched his chair, took a seat, and threw a towel before calling for the referee’s attention and uttering “F—ing f—-t!” “Kobe Bryant’s comment during last night’s game was offensive and inexcusable,” NBA Commissioner David Stern said in a statement after gay-rights organizations condemned the outburst. “While I’m fully aware that basketball is an emotional game, such a distasteful term should never be tolerated… . Kobe and everyone associated with the NBA know that insensitive or derogatory comments are not acceptable and have no place in our game or society.” Earlier Wednesday, the 13-time All-Star and five-time champion released this statement: “What I said last night should not be taken literally. My actions were out of frustration during the heat of the game, period. The words expressed do NOT reflect my feelings towards the gay and lesbian communities and were NOT meant to offend anyone.” --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So do you think he should have been fined at all or that much?
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Post by sean™ on Apr 13, 2011 23:37:19 GMT -5
I wonder if Kobe is thinking "100K? What a f****** f*****...."
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Post by Cult Member BriGuy on Apr 14, 2011 1:06:05 GMT -5
What do you think about the fine, Silva? Give us your own thoughts on the story instead of just copying and pasting news articles and asking for our thoughts. Do you have a particular view on this? I'm just trying to figure out why you posted this news story. You never post in the NBA threads. Players get fined all the time in the NBA. Did you just post this one because it came up on Yahoo News or AOL news?
I love how the cameras stayed on him when he went to the bench. Kobe was obviously pissed. And the fine is pointless, just a slap on the wrist for Kobe. It's mainly just so the gay and lesbian communities don't raise hell to Stern and the NBA.
And this can go in the NBA thread.
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Post by MC2 on Apr 14, 2011 21:27:15 GMT -5
Was it wrong? I guess. Worth 100K? Hell no.
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Post by Quanthor on Apr 14, 2011 21:38:48 GMT -5
The fine is awfully queer, isn't it?
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Post by user9327 on Apr 14, 2011 21:45:09 GMT -5
Kobe makes like 24 million this year, 100K to him is still a dent but not that bad.
Dude is like pushing 40... so yea, he deserved it. Not to mention the refs are gonna have this in the back of their head every time he complains.
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Post by Tim of thee on Apr 14, 2011 23:23:42 GMT -5
inconsistent on the NBAs part
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Post by becausethenight on Apr 16, 2011 6:56:15 GMT -5
Kobe makes like 24 million this year, 100K to him is still a dent but not that bad. Dude is like pushing 40... so yea, he deserved it. Not to mention the refs are gonna have this in the back of their head every time he complains.  |
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Post by user9327 on Apr 16, 2011 16:35:10 GMT -5
Kobe makes like 24 million this year, 100K to him is still a dent but not that bad. Dude is like pushing 40... so yea, he deserved it. Not to mention the refs are gonna have this in the back of their head every time he complains. I'd expect this out of Dwight Howard or something... not THE guy in the league who has more experience and is supposed to be the most mature. To be closer to 40 than you are to 20 and still acting like that, especially when the NBA put rules in place this year to address that type of stuff... it's very telling. |
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Post by Cult Member BriGuy on Apr 16, 2011 16:38:00 GMT -5
I think he was trying to say 32 is not "like pushing 40"
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Post by twinn on Apr 16, 2011 16:48:15 GMT -5
$100,000 is too much imo. I think the fine mainly came out about because everybody is just way to overly sensitive these days. Kobe said he meant no disrespect to the gay community and it's obvious to me at least that he's telling the truth. When my buddies and I play video games against each other we constantly call each other fa**ots and we're not saying it to demean the gay community (we're all straight and pro-gay). That being said, Kobe should know better. It doesn't matter if it was in the heat of the moment and he meant no harm by it, he was on national television and needs to act a little more professional. I think a $50,000 fine would have been sufficient tho.
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Post by Happy Pizza on Apr 16, 2011 21:59:03 GMT -5
Just sayin...
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Post by the hell demon on Apr 16, 2011 23:01:46 GMT -5
Saw this on Tuesday. Kobe was just singing his favourite Korn song.  |
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Post by ~*Young $ Money*~ on Apr 17, 2011 11:43:21 GMT -5
Honestly it was stupid. He didn't say it in an interview or to anyone to their face.It was a heat in the moment thing and was caught on camera. It was pretty shitty imo.No matter what everyone has said it and everything else, these guys are very competetive and just wanna win and don't like being called on for this or that. I can't blame him to much b/c i know i have said things in the heat of the moment.
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Post by becausethenight on Apr 17, 2011 12:01:02 GMT -5
I'd expect this out of Dwight Howard or something... not THE guy in the league who has more experience and is supposed to be the most mature. To be closer to 40 than you are to 20 and still acting like that, especially when the NBA put rules in place this year to address that type of stuff... it's very telling. In the heat of a game, MUCH worse things are said every single game. Kobe's probably not much worse than the average player. I think it had to be addressed, and that's unfortunate for Kobe. But he's not some evil person because he said this. He just happened to get caught. |
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Post by ICW on Apr 17, 2011 12:54:40 GMT -5
How many times have those players said the "N word" to each other? Where they fined? If they weren't, why not? That's a nasty remark...
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Post by AONI on Apr 17, 2011 13:54:15 GMT -5
what i dont get is why they totally censored his mouth in the replays. why is it i can hear bitch, shit, bunghole, etc on TV, but let somebody say homosexual and its all to hell? if we're gonna be about taking profane language out of people's minds, it has to be a battle thats fought consistently on all fronts. or else, thousand dollar fines like these wont mean much.
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Post by user9327 on Apr 17, 2011 21:03:02 GMT -5
I'd expect this out of Dwight Howard or something... not THE guy in the league who has more experience and is supposed to be the most mature. To be closer to 40 than you are to 20 and still acting like that, especially when the NBA put rules in place this year to address that type of stuff... it's very telling. In the heat of a game, MUCH worse things are said every single game. Kobe's probably not much worse than the average player. I think it had to be addressed, and that's unfortunate for Kobe. But he's not some evil person because he said this. He just happened to get caught. I don't think anyone is assuming he's an evil person or considering that there are much worse things said. I think they're considering exactly what everyone is talking about... the moment that Kobe got caught on TV saying a slur. It's more about the principle that the camera was so zoomed in and he's Kobe Bryant. Kobe makes a game winner he gets big press and praise. Kobe yells a slur, he gets big press and criticism. The most ironic part was Kobe punching the "NBA Cares" chair during this. |
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Post by ICW on Apr 17, 2011 21:09:09 GMT -5
Agin, how many times have the players said "the N Word" to one another? To me, that's considerably worse than what Bryant said and I hear it ALL the time whenever I watch basketball.
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Post by user9327 on Apr 17, 2011 22:12:45 GMT -5
Agin, how many times have the players said "the N Word" to one another? To me, that's considerably worse than what Bryant said and I hear it ALL the time whenever I watch basketball. caught by a camera facing them close up while explicitly saying it to another person with aggression and preluded by "f***in" and punching of a chair? None that I know of. In fact, I haven't heard the N word in a basketball game in a long time. But I know what you mean, disgraceful. Hearing is one thing... seeing it is another. |
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