The NBA's senior vice president of basketball operations, Stu Jackson suspended Indiana Pacers Forward, Ron Artest for today's playoff match up versus the Boston Celtics. Artest came off the bench during a scuffle involving his teammate, Jermaine O'Neal during Game One of the first round series.

Ron Artest started to go on the court and thought better and ran back to the bench. Yet, Stu Jackson, in light of the situation still followed the strict interpretation of the NBA rule. "Any player not in the game that comes on the court will serve a one game suspension without pay." Clearly Ron Artest did not participate in the medley, nor say anything to the officials.

After watching the incident several times, no one would not have blame Stu Jackson for not suspending Artest, except the Boston Celtics faithful. It is obvious that Artest showed maturity by not fighting, however still there is no reward in cooling heads prevailing, at least in this case.

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