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Why wasn't this a flagrant? E-mail
Written by Don   
Monday, 25 May 2009 20:42
During the 2009 playoffs, there's been a huge hue and cry over what is and isn't a flagrant foul.
This is how the NBA describes a flagrant foul:
"A flagrant foul-penalty (1) is unnecessary contact committed by a player against an opponent.
A flagrant foul-penalty (2) is unnecessary and excessive contact committed by a player against an opponent. It is an unsportsmanlike act and the offender is ejected immediately." (nba.com)

It would seem to me that this is the very definition of a flagrant foul.


Yet Dahntay Jones got away with that.  The ridiculous thing is that if Kobe had "sold" the foul (read "flopped"), then it probably would've resulted in a flagrant call.
Thing is... LA are much, much better off with Jones on the floor.
 

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