Not really. You cited Stern's new approach towards issuing technical fouls, but you never actually made a connection between that and Anthony being banned from the ASG(a connection would be flimsy at best, anyway).

The length of Anthony's suspension is certainly a reasonable debate, but banning him from the All-Star game does nothing except penalize the fans that are paying money to see him play in an exhibition event that was intended to be purely a crowd-pleaser. The integrity of the game itself isn't affected one or another, because he'll still be playing the rest of the regular season and, presumably, in the postseason.

You also kind of went off on a tangent about Dwayne Wade and sportsmanship awards, which had even less to do with the point you seemed to be trying to make. For one thing, SI's Sportsman of the Year is really just "athlete who had the best year". It's not like the Joe Dumars trophy or anything. If Carmelo wins either award for '07, you'd have a point.


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