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A few days ago, Serge Ibaka hit Blake Griffin (intentionally?) in the groin and received a slap on the wrist in the form of a fine while Matt Barnes, Metta World Peace and DWade were handed suspensions and bigger fines for what many, including NBA players, felt were similar actions. Everybody from LeBron to Wade have been tweeting about the light punishment.
Last night, Metta World Peace and another dunk champion, Dwight Howard, were in town to face Ibaka and the Thunder. Dwight played like he had a groin injury and fouled out with six points but before fouling out he did attempt one poster dunk on Ibaka which was slapped a lot harder than the wrist slap the league gave Ibaka.
You can INTENTIONALLY grab or hit someone in the balls & not get suspended, but you push someone & get suspended. #ImConfused
— Matt Barnes (@Matt_Barnes22) March 5, 2013
RT @matt_barnes22: Let me or @mettaworldpeace do that & I guarantee its a 5game suspension.. I luv *how* there ... tmi.me/MIfUZ
— Matt Barnes (@Matt_Barnes22) March 5, 2013
So if I would have back handed Ibaka, I would have been the only one to get suspended right??????????????????????????
— Matt Barnes (@Matt_Barnes22) March 5, 2013
So explain to me the difference? My teammate gets a 1 game suspension and 150k+ taking away from him for his groin altercation #strangetome
— LeBron James (@KingJames) March 5, 2013
All I can say is WoW....no pun intended but really....and I get suspended and lose 200 grand... #someexplainingtodo
— Way of WADE (@DwyaneWade) March 5, 2013