Dwight Howard plays like a thug and a criminal

[Thruthelookingglass]

every celtic fan should email the NBA...now...just do it...

Every fan of basketball should email the NBA.

[Weird Facts]

Honestly - we can get mad @ Dwight all we want.

Realistically it is the officials who we should be angry with.
Any moron can see that DWIGHTS hits people after the whistle.

He throws people to the ground when he could just hold back- he flails his elbows around violently.

Know what?! he is going to keep doing that until he starts getting called for it!

[dooyork]

Dwight Howard is a war criminal.

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every celtic fan should email the NBA...now...just do it...

Every fan of basketball should email the NBA.

agreed. the last thing the league needs is another kings-lakers fiasco. this game was pretty much that.

[rutzan]

it is so obvious that Stern has paid off his cronies...his boys...he pays the refs to swallow their whistles...let me see...let Howard hurt people...oh yeah...don't forget to take Perk out of the game first...btw...the Fakers just lost their 2nd game...we wouldn't want the Celtics to get any rest...the NBA and the refs should be ashamed of themselves...

[butterbeanlove]

player salaries are fixed costs... playoff series are potential revenue generators for teams, the deeper they go, the more windfall for the owners and their goblin Stern. That's what you saw tonight. The sad thing is nothing will change until an angry mob with torches marches down to NBA headquarters (which won't happen any more than anyone will march on Wall Street after they wrecked the economy). The search for a set of balls continues.

[kozlodoev]

Honestly - we can get mad @ Dwight all we want.

Realistically it is the officials who we should be angry with.
Any moron can see that DWIGHTS hits people after the whistle.

He throws people to the ground when he could just hold back- he flails his elbows around violently.

Know what?! he is going to keep doing that until he starts getting called for it!

Don't sleep on that -- he's been doing this since the day he stepped foot in an NBA gym, and the league doesn't seem to mind.

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you get suspended a game for 3 flagrant 1's, i think. howard just got one for the elbow to KG in game 4. i honestly think there's no way he doesn't get at least one more (he definitely should get two) for tonight's game. anyway, just a thought. i think there's no way stern allows that to happen, but who knows. its pretty obvious his elbows should have been called flagrants tonight.

[Redz]

get a grip, people. howard isn't a thug or a criminal. he's simply a dirty player...or at least is allowed to play dirty. call him out for what he clearly is doing (throwing elbows recklessly). i actually don't think many of them are intentional per se, but the fact that he doesn't get called for them tells him he can be reckless with them, which makes matters worse. so, yeah, call him out for being allowed to play dirty. don't resort to middle school crap and call him a thug and a criminal. he's neither of those.

It's a reference to an old line from Johnny Most

[reggie35]

Dooonnnnnnaaaaaaggghhhyyyy   

I know this is not a blame the refs thread, but hey, I'm having fun here.

[jackson_34]

you get suspended a game for 3 flagrant 1's, i think. howard just got one for the elbow to KG in game 4. i honestly think there's no way he doesn't get at least one more (he definitely should get two) for tonight's game. anyway, just a thought. i think there's no way stern allows that to happen, but who knows. its pretty obvious his elbows should have been called flagrants tonight.

You need four to be suspended in the playoffs.

Can an incident be reviewed and deemed a flagrant if no call has been made though? I can't for the life of me remember if it can or cannot...

[mmbaby]

I am so angry at Elbow! What a dirty cheater he is. I couldn't believe he didn't get a foul, at least, for what he did to Baby. It's really sick. I pray that BBD is all right. One guy on Celtics.com said he thought BBD had lost a tooth. It was horrible to have to watch him wobble like that into the ref's arms and still....no freaking foul on Elbow. I just hate that guy.

[mmbaby]

Not to mention what he did to Paul Pierce. He deliberately came down on his bad shoulder and Paul was in such pain. And many times he would lock his arms with our players and our team would get called for fouls.

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you get suspended a game for 3 flagrant 1's, i think. howard just got one for the elbow to KG in game 4. i honestly think there's no way he doesn't get at least one more (he definitely should get two) for tonight's game. anyway, just a thought. i think there's no way stern allows that to happen, but who knows. its pretty obvious his elbows should have been called flagrants tonight.

You need four to be suspended in the playoffs.

Can an incident be reviewed and deemed a flagrant if no call has been made though? I can't for the life of me remember if it can or cannot...

he's got 2 already. quite honestly, he absolutely deserved them for the after-the-whistle shots he took on pierce and rondo. those are very clearly dirty plays. but you make a good point...he never got called for the initial foul. that is the league's out here.

[rutzan]

trying to defend Supergirl by saying she's used to it and because the refs let her get away with it is so weak...a criminal isn't a criminal after she commits the crime...she's a criminal when beforehand she purposes in her heart and mind to commit the crime...Supergirl has had plenty of years to sharpen her elbows and ply her craft...don't let her pretty girl smile fool you...she is a dirty player with a criminal heart and mind who deliberately trys to hurt people...the NBA should be ashamed...