Isaac
Years ago

Cats and Blaze fined for "post-game incident"

The General Manager of the National Basketball League, Chuck Harmison, has ruled that a total of $3000 in fines must be paid by the Perth Wildcats and the Gold Coast Blaze for their roles in a post-game incident on Saturday.

The confrontation occurred on court at Challenge Stadium at the conclusion of the Perth versus Gold Coast match when Wildcats guard Stephen Weigh took exception to the post-game celebrations of Blaze players James Harvey and Chris Goulding.

The referee evaluator reported the incident to the League and recommended Weigh be investigated for pushing/striking.

After reviewing the game footage the matter was dealt with by Harmison under provision of NBL rules.

"Each team will be fined $1500 for its part in the incident," Harmison said.

“This was not a brawl as some media reported it and there were no punches thrown, but it was far from pretty and had the potential to escalate into something far worse.

“While we admire the passion displayed by both teams we cannot condone incendiary behaviour of this nature.”

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Loco  
Years ago

In unrelated news, the General Manager of the National Basketball League, Chuck Harmison, has ruled that a total of $6000 in bonuses must be paid to the Perth Wildcats and the Gold Coast Blaze for their endeavours to expand NBL coverage across free to air television.

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TC2  
Years ago

A good solution and appropriate comments from Chuck.

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Isaac  
Years ago

Hopefully the respective teams ask Weigh, Harvey, Goulding and Frank to put in some extra time doing school visits to make the $1500 worthwhile.

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TC2  
Years ago

As if any kids would know who Frank was.

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DJ  
Years ago

Interesting point Isaac, should individual player fines impose/penalties or all in's like this case have some sort of community service hours penalty on top of any $$ fines the NBL imposes, players in question teaching kids about bball, promoting NBL and teaching good sportsmanship.

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Statman  
Years ago

You'd be surprised TC2, up here he is actually one of the more well known players with the kids. Probably due to the fact that last season he looked like the Paddlepop Lion!

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HAHA  
Years ago

I think community service is a good idea but if teams who are punished in this way aren't used to or don't like giving up their time for things like appearances, coaching clinics etc, isn't it counter productive for the public to have to see their sullen I-really-don't-want-to-be-here attitudes?

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EC  
Years ago

Community Service is a bad idea as a punishment because before long, all the school kids would wake up to the fact that these players are only here as punishment and not because they are interested in promoting the sport. Community service to a certain level should be undertaken by all players and not viewed as a means of punishing them.

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orbit  
Years ago

Fine Weigh $6000. The rest was aussie folklore - protect your mates! That little shithead needs to back it up now - like Heall did w Barkley - otherwise LOSER!!

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Isaac  
Years ago

HAHA, the majority of them do well at school clinics and would be fine in that scenario.

EC, primary school kids would barely be aware of that sort of thing. They'd just be excited about having the players there.

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HAHA  
Years ago

For the teams that don't do enough compared to others or just send out the development players instead of the drawcards, I guess it won't be an issue next season when regular reporting to BA on how many schools etc they attended will be the norm and fines in place if they don't comply with promoting the game.

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mystro  
Years ago

The Breakers go to my nephews school and mini ball games all tha time and the kids get a massive kick out of it regardless of who the players are.
My nephews only know who Penney is and CJ Bruton lol

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HAHA  
Years ago

Yep I've heard the Breakers amongst others are pretty good with promoting the game.
Brisbane for example in their last season sent players to the PA Hospital childrens' unit quite a few times but only sent them to about 2 schools.
They never did appearances or anything to promote the game.

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