The Rush: What exactly did LeBron James see during the basketbrawl?
The fallout from Saturday’s Lakers / Rockets rumble in the Staples Center continued. Yesterday, Kiki VanDeWeghe, the NBA’s VP of Basketball Operations, handed out suspensions. Brandon Ingram got four games, three four Rajon Rondo and two for Chris Paul. Video from the brawl appeared to show Rondo spitting on Chris Paul before punches were thrown. But the length of suspensions appears to indicate that the NBA didn’t see enough to definitively prove Rondo’s motive. Any way you slice it, it’s been a rough start for LeBron as a Laker. His team has lost their first two games and is on pace for 82 losses and 41 fights.
Deshaun Watson played for his Texans in Jacksonville yesterday, but he didn’t travel with them. His partially collapsed lung made traveling in an airplane dangerous. So he made the twelve hour journey by bus. He joked that his ride was so tricked out, there was a recording studio in the back. On the other side of the field, the Jaguars had even less luck with their quarterback. Blake Bortles was playing with exactly zero collapsed lungs and he still got benched. The Jaguars play the Eagles in London next week. They may want to consider having their QB travel to that game by bus.
The World Series is set. Over the weekend the Dodgers won games 6 and 7 in Milwaukee to make it to the Fall Classic for the second consecutive year. They’ll be taking on the heavily favored Red Sox who won 108 games in the regular season. The Dodgers will be trying to wind their first championship since 1988. Meanwhile the Red Sox are going for their fourth championship in the last 14 years. We may be only 18 years into the current century, but another title for Boston would give them early claim on the title of team of the century.
