David Stern Throws Darts To Determine Fines

Here’s a shocker; the NBA can’t get a disciplinary handle on its’ players.  It wasn’t more than two months ago that we were talking about Kobe Bryant getting caught on camera hitting a referee with a gay slur.  David Stern came down hard on Kobe and hit him with a $100,000 fine.  So when Joakim Noah popped off at a fan on Sunday night and got into a verbal exchange that resulted in him also getting caught yelling a gay slur, it seemed only reasonable that his punishment would be just as bad as Kobe’s.  Right?  Wrong. I can see David Stern playing pin the tail on the fine donkey in his office.  Or spinning the roulette wheel and handing out a fine based on that.  There certainly isn’t a tremendous amount of logic behind his “system.”  Noah only got hit with a $50,000 fine, half of what Kobe had to pay for twice as bad of a move.  Yelling at the ref is one thing.  Getting into it with a p...