LOL, Ricky Davis is a dumb fuck.....

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CLEVELAND (AP) -- Ricky Davis will not be fined by Cavaliers coach Keith Smart, who said Monday that embarrassment is punishment enough for the stunt against the Utah Jazz.

``The deed is done,'' Smart said after a morning practice. ``What good would it do to slap him on the wrist? He has to live with what he did. Wherever he goes, people will remember it.''

Davis attempted to pad his statistics during a 122-95 win over the Utah Jazz on Sunday. To get his first career triple-double in the final seconds of the lowly Cavs' biggest win of the season, Davis purposely missed a shot at the wrong basket and grabbed the rebound, thinking it was his 10th.

Davis, the team's scoring leader, was fouled hard by the Jazz's DeShawn Stevenson, angered that his club was being mocked. Davis made the two free throws to finish with 28 points, 12 assists, 9 rebounds.

``No comment,'' the usually exuberant Davis said as he left practice Monday.

Davis apparently did not know that his stunt backfired even without Stevenson fouling him. The rulebook states: ``It is a violation for a player to attempt a field goal at an opponent's basket. The opposing team gets the ball.''

Davis did not get a shot attempt or his rebound.

``I talked with Ricky after the game,'' Smart said. ``The thing is, one tiny moment ruined the team's most successful game. Ricky had his finest game as far as blending in with his teammates. None of that will be remembered, but what he did will follow him always.''

Smart said he and Cavaliers players were embarrassed.

``I felt very, very bad and before Ricky shot the free throws -- I went and apologized,'' said Smart, who walked over to an incensed Utah coach Jerry Sloan.

Davis signed a six-year, $34 million contract before the season. The 6-foot-7 guard is averaging 20.7 points and is the first player in team history to record three 40-plus scoring games in a season.

Davis also had two run-ins with former coach John Lucas, fired Jan. 20 after a 17-point loss at Utah. Lucas suspended Davis for two games this season for arguing with teammates and being selfish.

The win was just the second in 15 games for the Cavaliers, who have a league-worst 12-53 record. Cleveland needs four wins in its final 17 games to avoid tying the franchise's worst mark of 15-67, set in the inaugural season of 1970-71 and matched in 1981-82

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What a dumb selfish cock sucker. lol, he made an ass of himself being so fucking selfish. If i was his teammate i would be heated with him. He's a good player and all, but it goes to his head, and he is a cocky fucker.i would of fined him and made him hold a press conference apologizing to the team and the town for making the team look even worse.

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(Ricky) Davis should be punished for showing up Jazz

Monday, March 17

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By David Aldridge
Special to ESPN.com


If the Cleveland Cavaliers don't have the courage to suspend Ricky Davis, the league should. But the Cavs should do it.


Ricky Davis tried to record an Anthony Bowie-like triple-double.
There is excess, there is hubris and then there is what Davis did Sunday against the Jazz. A self-respecting eighth-grader wouldn't have pulled what Davis tried to do -- shoot at his own basket in the waning seconds of a blowout win over Utah so that he could get a 10th rebound and an ill-gained first career triple-double. This was wrong on so many levels, it's hard to list them all. But we will try.

First, any statistical achievement is only noteworthy in the context of the game being played. If your last basket gets you 50 points -- and also wins the game -- the 50 is meaningful. And it's OK to score 50 if your team loses, as long as those 50 were scored during an honest attempt to win. That's why Kobe Bryant's streak of scoring 40 points started to smell a little toward the end, when it seemed obvious he was firing up rocks just to keep it going. In Davis's case, there were six seconds left in a game where the Cavs were up by 25. If Davis had shot at Utah's basket on purpose, and missed, it would have merely been bush league. To shoot at his own basket unveils a whole new level of bush previously undiscovered by the world's top archaeologists.

Second, the Cavs have been fighting the perception all year that this season has been nothing but a sham, a transparent attempt to dump games in order to secure LeBron James in the lottery. They insist that that is not the case. It is, to me, therefore terribly inconsistent to do nothing when one of your players commits a sin like this. It is tantamount to saying that the players are in charge and can do anything they want. Which, come to think of it, is exactly what people around the league have been saying about Cleveland for much of the season.

Third, Davis's action was a slap in the face to those who have proceeded him, to the Russells and Chamberlains and Robertsons and Magics and Birds and Jordans. It wasn't me, but Utah's 21-year-old guard, DeShawn Stevenson who quite eloquently pointed this out after the game.

"There's too many people who have done too much for this sport to act like that," said Stevenson, who blasted Davis with a cross-body block after Davis's act. "This is the NBA, and you've got to be professional, and that's not professional. Yes, I think it was disrespect to the game and disrespect to me. You've got little kids looking up to him and to see him do that isn't right."

Out of the mouths of babes ...

(Of course, Jerry Sloan had his own adult take. "DeShawn fouled him, and I would have fouled him, too," Sloan said afterward. "I would have knocked him on his ass." God, I wish time travel was possible and Davis had tried that when Sloan was playing, or Norm Van Lier, or my ESPN colleague Fred Carter, or John Brisker.)

Fourth, Davis's action showed a lack of knowledge of the rules. Rule 5, Section 1 of the league's official rules states clearly, "It is a violation for a player to attempt a field goal at an opponent's basket. The opposing team will be awarded the ball at the free throw line extended." I'm not saying James or any other player should have such minutae committed to memory, but they should have a sense, after tens of thousands of hours of playing ball, of what's right and what's wrong.

By the way, this is the same guy who, just five days ago, fouled Miami's Mike James with four-tenths of a second left, in a 75-all game, with James fading away and shooting a desperation three. James hit two of the three free throws, and the Heat won 77-75.

The league should step in, if only to right a wrong it committed a few years ago in a similar circumstance. In 1996, the Magic were in the process of blowing out Detroit, 113-91, when guard Anthony Bowie was one assist shy of a triple-double. But Orlando called a timeout with 1.4 seconds left so that it could set up one more play. Detroit's coach at the time, Doug Collins, ordered his team not to guard the play at all so that Bowie could get his gift assist and phony triple. When Bowie tapped the ball to a teammate, who then scored, there were three-tenths of a second left. But a disgusted Collins and his team were already walking off the floor, opting not to extend the charade any further.

But it was Collins that got fined $5,000 for "unsportsmanlike conduct."

The league has a second chance to get it right this time. I still hope the Cavs take care of this themselves. It is Davis, not Stevenson, not Sloan, who committed the unsportsmanlike act here. It is Davis who made the hard work of an NBA player into folly. It is Davis who needs to be shown that there are lines that just can't be crossed once you cross the lines and go onto the floor. Not because he's a bad kid, but because he's a young one, and he needs somebody to show him, by barring him from playing what a terrible thing he did.

There are lots of adults in the Cleveland front office. Time for them to stand up and be counted.
 
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haha hell nah i wish i seen that game, i get every hoop game on directv but i never watch weak games like that...that musta been funny as a muthafucker...ricky davis is tight but he's a dumb ass for that one
 
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Shit was comical when I first saw him do it....

Then Sloan made the comment that if he were out there he woulda knocked Ricky on his ass for that...HaHa...

That was pretty selfish move though...
 
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You have got to be kidding me. He shot it at the other end against the backboard at the end of a game to try and get a triple-double? That is some embarassing shit!
 
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This has to be one of the stupidest moments in NBA history. I agree with the beforesaid punishment which was inflicted the second he threw the shot up. Having to face the world every game you play for the rest of your life with that moment hanging over you is much worse then missing a game or getting fined a mesely 5-10 grand. He is looked at in a completely different by everyone around him..

[shakes head]
 
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