The Rest of the NBA

[PhillyPhreak54]

nm

[MDS]

nevermind what, houston j?

[Don Ho]

Kobe fined $100K for homophobic slur at ref? 

[Sgt PSN]

No, he was fined because his slur was caught on camera and even though you couldn't hear what he said, it was easy enough to read his lips.  If the camera wasn't on him at that particular moment, there's no fine. 

[ice grillin you]

if it didnt get caught on camera and a ref or anyone else  reported it to the league you can best believe he would have been slapped with a huge fine...players get fined in the nba all the time for verbal abuse of the refs when no one has any idea what they said...a farg you on a ref is getting you 15k...that fact that kobe cussed out a ref AND used a slur to do it got him the 100K

it being caught on camera may have upped the fine a few bucks but he was getting fined no matter ....the nba made a point last offseason to really cut down on player ref exchanges....if you say nothing this year and are demonstrative with your body language you are getting a technical

[ice grillin you]

"In two more signs that the NBA is gearing up for a lockout starting July 1, the league has scrubbed its annual Las Vegas summer league and has also scuttled its annual summer internship program, according to league sources. The Las Vegas summer league normally starts around July 9, with upwards of 20 teams, including the Knicks, sending little-used veteran players and rookies to compete over a 10-day period. Also, the NBA usually hires about 30 college students to participate in a 10-week internship program in the league's offices in New York and at the league's entertainment division in Secaucus, N.J. In preparing for a lockout, the NBA is also not sending any teams abroad for training camp, and did not schedule any preseason games in Europe for this fall."

[Diomedes]

who.farging.cares

[PhillyGirl]

So a homophobe, a rapist, and a black guy walk into a bar, and everyone's like "Can I have your autograph, Kobe?"

[Sgt PSN]

if it didnt get caught on camera and a ref or anyone else  reported it to the league you can best believe he would have been slapped with a huge fine...players get fined in the nba all the time for verbal abuse of the refs when no one has any idea what they said...a farg you on a ref is getting you 15k...that fact that kobe cussed out a ref AND used a slur to do it got him the 100K

it being caught on camera may have upped the fine a few bucks but he was getting fined no matter ....the nba made a point last offseason to really cut down on player ref exchanges....if you say nothing this year and are demonstrative with your body language you are getting a technical

Of course players get fined for excessive language towards refs but typically it's not one of the top 3 players in the game and it's almost never caught on camera.  So we know when the players get fined for abusing a ref but very rarely do we actually know what was said.  And that's the point.....if there's no camera on Kobe at the time, the fine isn't quite as hefty and it's probably just a footnote on the box score or game recap that reads something like "Kobe Bryant was fined $XXX by the NBA for abusive language towards a referee" rather than being a national story. 

[Sgt PSN]

Kings broadcasters crying in Cowtown after last night's game

[ice grillin you]

if it didnt get caught on camera and a ref or anyone else  reported it to the league you can best believe he would have been slapped with a huge fine...players get fined in the nba all the time for verbal abuse of the refs when no one has any idea what they said...a farg you on a ref is getting you 15k...that fact that kobe cussed out a ref AND used a slur to do it got him the 100K

it being caught on camera may have upped the fine a few bucks but he was getting fined no matter ....the nba made a point last offseason to really cut down on player ref exchanges....if you say nothing this year and are demonstrative with your body language you are getting a technical

Of course players get fined for excessive language towards refs but typically it's not one of the top 3 players in the game and it's almost never caught on camera.  So we know when the players get fined for abusing a ref but very rarely do we actually know what was said.  And that's the point.....if there's no camera on Kobe at the time, the fine isn't quite as hefty and it's probably just a footnote on the box score or game recap that reads something like "Kobe Bryant was fined $XXX by the NBA for abusive language towards a referee" rather than being a national story. 

if its not on camera and no one heard it youd be right

if it wasnt caught on the camera and it was reported by the ref that a slur was used or by another player then best believe it would have been news

kevin garnett called villenueva a cancer patient and that blew up even tho no one saw or heard it simply because villeunueva talked about it after the game

[Sgt PSN]

Yeah, but I doubt that the ref would have said anything to the media about it and we'd all still be speculating exactly what Kobe said.  I think most refs, if questioned by the media, would say something generic like "he used some inappropriate language so I gave him a tech." or something like that. 

Regardless, the league got it right.  100k fine and move on.  Not suspension worthy. 

[ice grillin you]

that was one of the all time collapses ive ever seen

[MDS]

or maybe derrick rose is just incredible? and the pacers already suck?

[Sgt PSN]

It's probably a combination of all 3.