Horry certainly deserves to be suspended both games, but i really dont think he did it out of malice.

I don't think he purposefully did it to hurt Nash but I do think this is a clear case of Spurs Coach Popovich making it clear to his players to be overly physical with Steve Nash. The head butt aside as that was purely an accident, Nash has been checked into the scorers table and kneed in the groin.

Through his career he has been a stand up guy, and i think this incident came from the emotion of how physical the series has been.

He's by no means a stand up guy, remember when he threw a towel in Danny Ange's face on the bench during a game here in PHX? Not very stand up if you ask me.

I can kind of relate to him, as ive taken out players for no particular reason in soccer other than because it was just such a physical game and the testosterone was pumping.

As for Amare's and Diaw's suspensions, they should have known better than to jump off the bench and try to start something.

If you can relate to the physical play then why can't you see that it is a natural reaction to defend your star player when an obvious flagrant foul was committed during an emotional and physical game? Put yourself in their shoes and see that your top player is essentially punked right in front of you what would you do?

Its in the rule book that they are not allowed to do that. If the NBA changes the rules based on who is involved, the league discredits its own rules. Its a shame, but they have only themselves to blame.

The rule isn't the problem it is the way the NBA is governing the rule. They are governing just the rule and not the spirit of what the rule should be intended for. Now if punches were thrown then I would have no problem with the suspensions but just because they took 2-3 steps from the bench in an emotional game I think is ridicules. This rule should be on a situational basis. No further damage was done so why penalized the Suns?

As for the Duncan incident during the second quarter, I cant really comment because i only saw the second half. Id be really surprised if Duncan did anything to warrant a suspension, though. Even most of the Suns players (except for apparently Nash) respect him a great deal. The NBA probably would suspend Duncan if he deserved it, and they even did so at the end of the regular season for something that didnt even deserve a suspension.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y39nRO5keRM

Here is the incident with Duncan coming off the bench in 2 quarter. If there wasn't an incident then why was he on the court. If the league can justify the suspensions for the Suns then Duncan should be suspended also.

As for the Joey Crawford incident don't think Duncan was innocent. He was only ejected from the end of a game. Joey Crawford was suspended for the entire playoffs and may never ref again. Duncan plays this oh poor me type of game but I am not buying it he just knows he has David Stern in his back pocket.