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What kind of punishment would you give Metta World Peace?

  • WildBill71 said...

    7 games is an enormous joke. With his record, he should be banned from the league for life. He's a ticking time bomb, and the league should do everything they can to disassociate themselves from him.

    i know next to nothing about basketball (hey its tall fast guys and i grew up short and slow). But i spent 35 years in Texas courtrooms trying all kinds of civil lawsuits. What do you think happens when Mr Peace does this again and seriously injurs someone? You think the NBA is not going to be sued? And just as likely the police will become involved.How cool will that be for the NBA's reputation (yea among some folks it will jack the reputation way up)

    And it is not just Mr. Peace. Stern has set the bar way too low. At least Goodell has seen the light of modern litigation issues and is making efforts to protect his sport long term by dissassociating itself from what could be deemed criminal actions on the field.

    Stern is not.

    It may take some of the "fun" out of it for some folks, but sports are going to have to move to a place where safety of players is a greater issue for the leagues if they want to remain financially ok. This subject is getting way more press and way more attention now than it did in the past (at least it seems that way to me). Not taking the initiative for change that Goodell has taken seems to me to be very shortighted.

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    longhorn723

  • I just saw it on Youtube and while you can not say definitively that it was intentional, you can at the least say it was careless and reckless. A seven game suspension would be the minimum I would penalize him especially taking in to account his history . This is not a slap on the wrist by any means considering most of it involves missing play off games. Now if this was an elbow by a player with no history of this type of behavior that would be a different story.

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    Texasmdcoach

  • I would make him go by the name "Metta World Peace" for the rest of his life. There is no harsher punishment than that.

    ChampKind

  • And .... Stern pussed out. I am starting to think of a whole 'nother level of punishments for Metta now. Ant hills ... things like that. I guess the worst punishment is really being the fraudish thug that he is, that Metta World Peace. What a guy! We need a vomiting smiley faced icon.

    sundancekid

  • sundancekid said...

    And .... Stern pussed out. I am starting to think of a whole 'nother level of punishments for Metta now. Ant hills ... things like that. I guess the worst punishment is really being the fraudish thug that he is, that Metta World Peace. What a guy! We need a vomiting smiley faced icon.

    pukeface

    UTK66

  • Reactions to the punishment really say a lot more about the commenter than they do about World Peace or his actions.

    I know this is the internet which deals in overreaction and faux outrage, but some of you need to read your posts aloud.

    GPie

  • UTK66 said...

    pukeface

    You have just made my day. Up votes galore when I get home

    sundancekid

  • How did you do that? Is this access able for all?

    sundancekid

  • This post was edited by sundancekid on 4/25/2012 at 3:21 PM

    sundancekid

  • I have long held that assault charges should be filed when actions like that happen. I know football to be a hard hitting sport but I believe most mature people can see the difference between a hard legal hit and just plain thuggery. An instant drug test should be administered as well to see if drug played a part in it with harsh penalties for that as well.

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  • pepper11 said...

    A weekend in college station.

    That would be cruel and unusual punishment.

    Danno2