I can’t believe that I keep on delaying my musings on Marvel’s upcoming World War Hulk event to watch basketball clips. Fucking basketball, 82 games of boredom and they still sucker me in at the playoffs. That said, Bruce Bowen is a dirty player, who doesn’t hesitate to injure other players if he thinks he can get away with it. I feel a heady joy at seeing an underhanded player revealed as such. This joy is akin to the exquisite pleasure of watching skeptics disproving scam faith healers or the Daily Show mocking the hypocrisy of politicians. Justice may not be served, but at least you get rid of the wool over your eyes.
While this post probably isn’t news to people who care, it’s been coming up a lot recently, especially with similarities to the Horry/Nash incident. I don’t think that Horry is nearly as bad as Bowen. Horry committed a hard foul and Nash is a little guy so it looked even worse. Horry was probably frustrated and he sees the end of his career looming. I don’t know if Horry has a history of this or not, but he wasn’t trying to mask the foul and the scandal was really the NBA’s suspensions. (In defense of the NBA, the Suns’ suspensions were automatic and it was bound to be a no win situation.)
Contrastingly, Bowen is tripping people, stepping on their ankles, making low kicks, and acting as innocent as an Italian soccer player. Thankfully, someone has compiled a list of Bowen incidents with videos from YouTube. All praise to RyanUnderdown.com. You can look at all of the videos on one page or if the site goes down (it’s getting heavy traffic), I’ll post individual links.
