David Stern has screwed the Suns again. During last night’s testy game 4 in Atlanta between the Hawks and the Celtics, tempers escalated after Boston forwward Kevin Garnett threw a late elbow at Atlanta back-up Center Zaza Pachulia. TV replays showed players stepping off both benches and, it was assumed, that because of last year’s “Rules are Rules” ruling from Stern’s office involving Amare Stoudemire that many feel cost the Suns a championship, suspensions were forthcoming. However, instead of suspending players this time, chose not to. We get it, officiating is hard and doling out suspensions and fines come playoff time in the NBA is even harder, particularly knowing all eyes are on you since you’ve done such a horrific job of it lately. But is having a consisent approach and methodology all that hard? Is it that hard to see why fans are going to wonder about this, given what a screw-job the Suns got last year? The media gave this very little coverage, but any fan has to be asking themselves “How is this different from last year?” Please NBA brass tell us, how is this different than last year?
