| 25 May 2009
During the 2009 playoffs, there's been a huge hue and cry over what is and isn't a flagrant foul.
This is how the NBA describes a flagrant foul:
"A flagrant foul-penalty (1) is unnecessary contact committed by a player against an opponent.
A flagrant foul-penalty (2) is unnecessary and excessive contact committed by a player against an opponent. It is an unsportsmanlike act and the offender is ejected immediately." (nba.com)
A flagrant foul-penalty (2) is unnecessary and excessive contact committed by a player against an opponent. It is an unsportsmanlike act and the offender is ejected immediately." (nba.com)
It would seem to me that this is the very definition of a flagrant foul.
Yet Dahntay Jones got away with that. The ridiculous thing is that if Kobe had "sold" the foul (read "flopped"), then it probably would've resulted in a flagrant call.
Thing is... LA are much, much better off with Jones on the floor.
