One of the reasons that the NBA has become a terrible product is plays like that. $5,000 dollars is chump change for a guy like Wade. Suspend him for ruining the game. To put this in perspective the Spurs lost by 2 and Wade made 2 free throws from this foul.
There were countless times last night where Danny Green didn't have a "landing spot" after he shot the ball, however I remember Wade jumping right into Green for a foul. Really some awful display of officiating by the refs.
The respect for the stars has ruined the game of basketball and turned it into a soft league. Handing out calls for stars reacting to a foul is laughable. Plus it has lost all its rivalries simply by calling a flagrant foul for anything intentional as small as a push (although I felt Chalmers deserved a flagrant yesterday). Even now you get a technical for passing the ball to the ref or any reaction against your opponent. This league is a soft league.
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