Grant's Rant: 5-10-24 Soft NBA Punishments

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Grant Napear

Sports, Football, Basketball

4.7 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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This week has once again showed how cozy the league wants to be with its players. Jamal Murray of the Nuggets only was fined for throwing a heat pack onto the court during Game 2 this past Tuesday. Patrick Beverly of the Bucks forcibly threw a ball at a fan and then berated an ESPN reporter in Indianapolis and gets a four-game suspension. Only four games? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's time for France.
0:02.0	France.
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0:17.5	Man, is the NBA getting soft or what with their punishments?
0:20.8	Think about this week alone.
0:22.3	Game to Denver, Minnesota, and all of a sudden a heat pack comes flying onto the floor from the nuggets bench.
0:30.0	The officials didn't see it, nothing was done, right?
0:33.4	I mean, Murray was able to play in the game.
0:36.4	Murray did not get suspended by the NBA for that.
0:40.1	What did he get?
0:40.9	A $100,000 fine. A A 100,000 dollar fine? Think about this. What would have happened if Denver had won that game? What would have happened if Denver had been leading in the series, two to zero or one one instead of down
0:55.0	oh two what are the league suspended Murray I mean Denver may not beat Minnesota
1:00.0	tonight even with Murray but they're certainly not going to beat them without
1:03.7	Murray and that would cost the league a lot of money. So did that factor into it? I got to
1:08.4	believe the answer to that question is yes. Then you get to Patrick Beverly. I don't understand this guy. I really don't.
1:14.5	Beverly gets a four-game suspension for forcibly throwing a ball at a fan in the
1:21.4	stands and then after the game berates and embarrasses an ESPN reporter.
1:27.6	And you get four games for that?
1:30.7	Four games at the beginning of next year for Patrick Beverly.
1:34.3	As I said, the league to me appears very soft with their suspensions.
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