ESPN NBA analyst Tim Legler says Dexter Pittman should be suspended “four to five games” for his forearm shiver hit on Lance Stephenson Tuesday night.
With the Miami Heat blowing out the Indiana Pacers, 115-80, in the fourth quarter of Game 5 Tuesday in Miami, Pittman delivered a blatantly hard shot to Stephenson’s neck area as the Brooklyn native cut into the lane. The hit garnered one of three flagrant fouls in the game.
Speaking on the “Mike & Mike in the Morning” show Wednesday, Legler said Pittman should get “four to five games” and that he could have done severe damage had the hit clocked Stephenson in the “windpipe.”
“Pittman’s action was outrageous and his intentions, however, were even worse,” Alberto Ebanks, Stephenson’s agent, told SNY.tv. Wednesday. “I’m sure the league will impose an appropriate penalty.” (more…)


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