Miami Heat Players get Suspension while Pacer Player Excused

Firm yet fair, has anyone else ever heard of this?  How about, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander?  Nothing fuels hostilities more than officials being seen as favoring one team over another.  Many will point to several instances where the Miami Heat has gotten some pretty favorable calls in their history but that is not the whole story.

According to The Sports Xchange in their article titled Heat's Haslem suspended for 1 game, Pittman for 3 it is reported that “the NBA has suspended Miami Heat forward Udonis Haslem for one game and Heat forward Dexter Pittman for three games for their retaliatory flagrant fouls in Tuesday's Game 5 of their series against the Indiana Pacers.   Haslem hit Hansbrough across the face and shoulder with both arms in the second quarter of the Heat's 115-83 victory and the 6-11 Pittman leveled Pacers guard Lance Stephenson with an elbow in the final minute of the game.”   But the one thing that was quite surprising was “Pacers forward Tyler Hansbrough had his flagrant foul on Miami's Dwyane Wade upgraded to a flagrant foul 2, be he was not suspended. Hansbrough's foul drew blood on Wade's face.”

Now I totally agree with the suspensions handed out and I do not think that the fouls were warranted in the manner that they were given.  While both Haslem and Pittman’s fouls were as blatant as you can get, neither drew blood.  Less we forget, Haslem was fouled and bleed as few games ago and no suspensions.  Some say that one of the actions that really added to the intent of Pittman’s foul was him winking, no one has said much about Hansbrough getting a high five from one of his team mates after his flagrant 2 foul on Dwyane Wade that also drew blood.

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