Then again, remembering Robert’s rules of order in the heat of a game has never exactly been the Joker’s strong point. True, Jokic also could’ve tried to retrieve the rock without acting like a wounded animal. “I just felt after watching that whole incident,” Malone continued, “(that) Nikola was just trying to get the ball, you know what I mean?”īingo.

But it’s worth keeping in the back of your head. Now none of that has a darn thing to do with Denver’s inability to defend Devin Booker and Landry Shamet or to box out Jock (several expletives deleted) Landale, to be clear. Here come the Nuggets (again), messing up the narrative (again), daring to get in the way of one of the league’s best TV draws (Kevin Durant) and a potential dream fight card in the Western Conference finals. As Doug Robinson of the Deseret News pointed out last fall, the louder the NBA screams to look away, the more suspicious a consumer ought to be. When Bloomberg pegs your net worth at $9.04 billion, $25K is tip money.įormer ref Tim Donaghy let several cats out of several unseemly bags more than a decade ago, affirming long-held suspicions about game-fixing, make-up calls, favoritism for mega stars, the lot.

Ishbia before Game 5 Tuesday night at Ball Arena, how ’bout this:Įither a) the Suns owner pays the Joker’s $25,000 fine as recompense for dragging us all down this rabbit hole to begin with or b), the league fines Ishbia $25,000, everybody’s square, and life goes on.īut, hey, if Ishbia wants to put his money where his maw is and cover the fine the NBA threw at the Nuggets center late Monday afternoon, that works, too. So if Joe Dumars, commissioner Adam Silver and the rest of the NBA wingtips really want to close the book on the case of Jokic v. If any other fan held onto a game ball and got all keep-away with the rock during a heated postseason game while a player was trying to retrieve it to restart the action, you know what happens? They’re escorted from the arena and banned for the rest of the series.

I mean, we don’t designate who’s in the stands.” “As Nikola (Jokic) said, that’s not an owner in the stands,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone offered Monday during a brief media scrum when asked about Ishbia, the Suns’ handsy governor. We’d say to throw the book at Mat Ishbia, but who are we kidding? He’d probably just cradle the thing in his lap and refuse to give it back. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu

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