Zach Lowe

Number two, it was early in the game and he essentially was suspended for that game for the most part.

And number three,

And I'm not sure how you feel about this, but it's not just that it's the playoffs and it's a huge game and nobody wants to see a huge game decided by this, by people leaving the bench, by whatever letter of the law thing happens.

The NBA has clearly decided that the playoffs are going to be a completely different game than the regular season with way amped up physicality and that people are going to be elbowing him and fouling him and everybody just across the board.

It's going to be wildly more physical.

And I think they need to take ownership a little bit of something like this where it's like, yeah, if you let that stuff happen, if your standard in the playoffs is this.

Things like this are going to happen, and I'm not excusing it.

It was an awful play.

It was super dangerous.

It was super violent.

But I do think the argument that we have to treat it a little bit differently because of the context of the playoffs, not just the importance of the game, but the environment of the games is pretty legit.

So I'm going to say they fine him.

I'm going to be okay with that.

And I also think Wolves fans, which would be fair to say, if this were a different player,

with the same track record, even a lesser player with the same track record, he might get suspended because it was a very violent, very targeted.

He looked at him, he wound up, and he smashed Nas Reed in the throat.

And he didn't fight about it when he was ejected.

He was like, okay, that seems right.

I'm leaving.

I don't know, I'm ejected.