Oklahoma City Thunder forward Serge Ibaka has some anger issues. See also: that time he tried to rip off Mike Dunleavy’s arm. He’s the kind of guy where if somebody came up to you and said “Serge Ibaka just flagrantly punched a dude in the nuts during a professional basketball game,” you’d be all, heh, classic Serge.

If you missed it earlier in the week, Ibaka got called for a flagrant 1 foul late in the fourth in OKC’s 108-104 victory over the LA Clippers for, without grace or mercy or subterfuge, hauling off and whaling on Blake Griffin’s nuts. Everybody has an opinion about it. Kendrick Perkins thinks Griffin deserved it because he flops a lot, and that it should’ve been a “double foul.” Kobe Bryant says he probably would’ve smacked Ibaka in the mouth.

The one constant has been the assumption that Ibaka would get suspended, because seriously, watch the video. Griffin isn’t flopping, he got punched in the junk by a guy whose Eagle Claw could rip a hole in steel. News of the punishment came in yesterday afternoon, and sure enough, Serge was suspended for … wait, he wasn’t? Really?

The NBA announced Tuesday that Ibaka’s foul was upgraded to a flagrant 2 and he was fined $25,000 for striking Griffin in the groin area, but Ibaka was not suspended.

Before the ruling was handed down, Griffin said he didn’t “see how it could be let go” by the league with only a fine.

“I’m not going to cry,” Griffin said after practice Tuesday. “I’m not going to complain.” (via LA Times)

Griffin handled the situation as well as anybody could, but achieved legendary status for last night’s tweet, which cuts to the heart of the matter while remaining light-hearted and brand-conscious:

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The Oklahoma City Thunder popped up in a local ad for Norman Chrysler Jeep Dodge, and it’s the stuff awkward public access dreams are made of. I feel you, Kendrick Perkins. Their next ad should just be Serge Ibaka saying “if you don’t buy a car from Norman Chrysler Jeep Dodge I will rip off your arms”. (via Last Angry Fan)

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There’s a moment near the beginning of Next Media Animation’s more-or-less unnecessary 66-second tribute to Blake Griffin’s dunking where LeBron James is standing on an Olympic podium holding a “Dunk Of The Year” trophy, Griffin shows up and bonks him in the head with a basketball to knock him down. You’re like, “oh, okay, this is going to be a tame one”.

A few seconds later, Griffin jumps over a car to win the slam dunk contest and we cut to fans and their heads explode. Then, a military panda walking on its hind legs hands Griffin a ball so he can one-up the car dunk with a corkscrew leap through flaming hoops that have been set up over a tiger cage. It doesn’t end well. To top that, Griffin gets into a time machine and dunks on Michael Jordan, who is mid-dunk himself. And then my head explodes.

All I can say is that if Griffin can travel time and simply viewing his dunks makes blood fill your head until it explodes, poor Kendrick Perkins needs to keep his eyes closed from birth ’til death.

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… because seriously, who buys NBA posters anymore? You can’t Fathead somebody. Now you turn them into a trending topic.

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This is why blogs are awesome. Basketbawful writer “Evil Ted” tried to make sense of the Celtics’ dubious Kendrick Perkins trade the only way he knew how–by “trading” his son for another boy down the street.

This past weekend, I tested Doc Rivers theory and traded my 9-year-old son (the one I felt has the least potential) to another family for their son. I made sure to trade my son to a family that wasn’t in my grammar school district, so that I wouldn’t have to worry about his talents impeding my own family’s success (at least not until high school rolls around), and I made sure that I got a kid who’s skills filled some voids, and would compliment the skills of the rest of my family.

–Basketbawful.

The video of Ted breaking the news to his son is pretty great; it’s the best performance by a child since Pearl McKay from “The Landlord“. Hey, foster homes can do a lot for some people. Superman grew up in a foster home…along with a lot of criminals. Meh, most folk heroes started out as criminals.

via Skeets. Of course.