this could really kill the pacer's on-court season in a big way... the thing i don't get is why ben got so pissed off to begin with... he's usually held up as what's right in the nba and that foul wasn't flagrant or anything... and especially against a meathead like artest, there was no way anything good was going to come out of that. The ref should have IMMEDIATELY kicked both players (err, i mean all three) out of the game, i mean zero seconds pass, they're both gone. Though it would have been hard to do, in hindsight I think that would have been the only thing to stop the escalation once ben started shoving...
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