Josh Howard, who plays Guard/ Forward for the Dallas Mavericks, has been suspended two games (without pay) for being involved in a fight with Sacramento Kings’ center Brad Miller. “Howard’s penalty was announced Friday by Stu Jackson, the NBA’s executive vice president of basketball operations. Howard will begin serving his suspension when Dallas opens its regular-season schedule at Cleveland on October 31.” Howard and Miller got into an altercation with 7:01 left in the second quarter of Tuesday’s preseason game where the Mavericks (Dallas) beat the Kings (Sacramento) by a score of 101-99. The initial situation was between Miller and Mavericks guard Devin Harris. But Howard raised the level of what happened when he ran across the court, hit Miller in the back of the head with his forearm, shoved him in the back, and then began getting into it with other Sacramento players.
Howard is the only one of the four players serving suspensions to start the regular season that occurred on the court. The other three players, James Posey (Boston Celtics), Stephen Jackson (Golden State Warriors), and Ron Artest (Sacramento Kings), had incidents occur off-court. Artest, serving a seven game suspension, plead no contest to infliction of injury on a spouse. Jackson, also serving a seven game suspension, pleaded guilty to criminal recklessness. And Posey, serving only a one game suspension, was suspended for pleading no contest to reckless driving. Again, this is another example of professional athletes acting recklessly, causing trouble, and not using their minds. Luckily for them, all they get is suspended. Had they been a “regular” civilian, then they would have been arrested and at least taken in for the night. These are prime examples of how professional athletes are “above” the law.
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