The Drubbing

I’m still not convinced that Kobe deserved to sit a game for that elbow, but considering that Rafer sat a game for his antics, maybe Kobe should’ve. Out of those infractions, I’d rank them (less worse to worst) Rondo, Rafer, Kobe, Dwight. So if you draw the line at Rafer, then yeah, Kobe should’ve probably sat out. And that goes right back to the inconsistency.

What’s most interesting to me is that Ron Artest got ejected for the foul on Pau Gasol purely for his reputation as a loose cannon. But Kobe, who has a long history of violent elbows (just ask Mike Miller, Manu Ginobili and Marko Jaric’s) apparently doesn’t have that kind of reputation.