Kenyon Martin Fined, Foul on Dirk Upgraded to a Flagrant 1

[Kully]

Karl: Fine on Martin out of line

DENVER -- Denver Nuggets coach George Karl disagrees with the $25,000 fine given to forward Kenyon Martin, calling it "way out of line and crazy."

Martin was punished by the league Monday, the day after knocking Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki to the court in Denver's second-round, series-opening win. Along with the fine, the league upgraded the foul to a flagrant foul.

Game 2 is Tuesday night at Denver.

With 5:57 to play in the first quarter of Sunday's Game 1, Martin was called for a technical foul after knocking Nowitzki to the ground with a hard bump along the baseline after Nowitzki made his first six shots from the floor.

Nowitzki finished with 28 points and 10 rebounds but shot only 6-for-16 after the hot start. Denver pulled away in the fourth quarter for a 109-95 win.

The flagrant foul is Martin's first of the postseason. It's believed that Martin's history of hard fouls -- compared to Boston's Rajon Rondo, who escaped punishment for high-profile fouls in the Celtics' first-round series with Chicago -- led to a fine in addition to the reclassification of the foul.

Well, I guess that's that.

[ex carrabba fan]

Re: Kenyon Martin Fined, Foul on Dirk Upgraded to a Flagrant 1

Over or under for the mention of "Rondo" or even "Kobe" in this thread

[OSUFan_88]

Re: Kenyon Martin Fined, Foul on Dirk Upgraded to a Flagrant 1

Wow, wow, wow.

Rondo is above the law.

[DW3]

Re: Kenyon Martin Fined, Foul on Dirk Upgraded to a Flagrant 1

Wow is right. That is BullS****

[Checmate101]

Re: Kenyon Martin Fined, Foul on Dirk Upgraded to a Flagrant 1

This is a joke man..It really is

[dossier]

Re: Kenyon Martin Fined, Foul on Dirk Upgraded to a Flagrant 1

NBA: Where bull**** happens

[Stumbleweed]

Re: Kenyon Martin Fined, Foul on Dirk Upgraded to a Flagrant 1

Yeah, pretty much BS... Dirk wasn't even airborne, which is generally considered a more dangerous play.

It probably deserved a flagrant on the basis of being "unnecessary contact", but there has been ZERO consistency in this regard this post-season... very disappointing.

Also, it was worth every penny.

(from the Yahoo game preview) “I don’t think we can play as physical as them. We don’t have the personality for it,” Dallas’ center acknowledged Monday, 24 hours after getting knocked around like a pinball in a 109-95 loss to Denver.

Also, this is funny (from another Yahoo article about the fine):

“We both played hard, had some great battles and left it at that,” Nowitzki said Tuesday. “We were laughing at one move that I made on the block where I had like 10 or 11 fakes and he was just standing there. He asked me what the hell I was doing?”

[Kully]

Re: Kenyon Martin Fined, Foul on Dirk Upgraded to a Flagrant 1

Stumbleweed, lol at your avatar. Love that show.

But yeah, I thought they were a bit consistent, until they did this. Kinda weird they fined him and upped the foul.

The NBA probably didn't want Rondo's call reversed because calling that foul a flagrant would have changed the whole complexity of the game. Or whatever. We don't know what the NBA and Stu Jackson thinks sometimes lol.

[ZB9]

Re: Kenyon Martin Fined, Foul on Dirk Upgraded to a Flagrant 1

big deal. It means nothing now. It should have been a flagrant one DURING the game....but it's not suprising that it wasnt considering Dan Crawford and Tom Washington were the officials

Mavs have actually been suspended for such fouls

[ZB9]

Re: Kenyon Martin Fined, Foul on Dirk Upgraded to a Flagrant 1

btw, I think this should have gone in the Mavs/Nuggets playoff thread

[Pappy Knuckles]

Re: Kenyon Martin Fined, Foul on Dirk Upgraded to a Flagrant 1

They fined him for that push? Wack. He needs to do it again.

[SuperBowlNachos]

Re: Kenyon Martin Fined, Foul on Dirk Upgraded to a Flagrant 1

He might as well. It takes 4 flagarant fouls(or a f1, f1, f2 or f2 f2) to get suspended for a game in the playoffs.

[PrettyT11]

Re: Kenyon Martin Fined, Foul on Dirk Upgraded to a Flagrant 1

Yeah this was a joke. It wasn't even that hard of a foul. Of ALL the flagrants and hard fouls that have happened in the playoffs so far they choose THIS one to upgrade and give a fine out. What a joke. You fine a guy for a push but let a man who threw a man into a table get away with nothing.

[Muzyk23]

Re: Kenyon Martin Fined, Foul on Dirk Upgraded to a Flagrant 1


what the HELL!?

[Brandon13]

Re: Kenyon Martin Fined, Foul on Dirk Upgraded to a Flagrant 1

I figured they'd fine him, as much as it wasn't deserved.