Stern: Incompetent Jackass or Criminally Egotistical Jackass?

So the NBA just announced a suspension in the playoffs.

For DeShawn Stevenson's near beheading of Lebron James? For Jason Kidd's throat tackle of Pargo? For Zycyzydrewnalsus Ilguskaususakasasas' punching of Songaila? For Kendrick Perkins and Marvin Williams leaving their benches during an altercation?

Get real! This is the NBA!

No, the suspension went against Songaila!

Here's the lowdown. Songaila gets his arm tangled with LeBron (who I'm going to anoint with a special bitch nickname if he doesn't stop flopping), Lebron jerks Songaila's hand up into his own face (in the same game in which the aforementioned Illgasketsauce punch occurred), and this earns both a technical and, now, a suspension for Songaila.

The moral of the story, kiddies?

There isn't one! How can there be a moral to this idiocy? Stern has blatantly decided to govern the league not by rule, but by whim! There is absolutely no consistency from one situation to the next and it's pretty obvious that Stern chose to suspend Songaila because you've probably never heard of him. God forbid we suspend the revenue generating star or, in the case of Stevenson, the revenue generating motor mouth. Songaila's suspension is a warning to the rest of the league to simmer down before Stern actually has to do his job.

Basketbawful had a good post about the players coming off the bench for Atlanta and Boston. After last year's debacle in the Suns/Spurs series during which Stern clearly stated that the suspension rules for leaving your bench were ironclad, how can he possibly have ignored this?!?! I'm going to morph into Mugatu in a minute and start shouting, "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!"