This is a disgrace, the only thing i can think of is as the NBL is part of FIBA any ban would have meant missed Olympic games (speaking of which are the Boomers due to play anywhere before the Olympics?)

The guy raises a form up up and into an oppositions head and does not only not get thrown out of the game the NBL now deems this style of play legal.

The NBL needs to put its hand down the front of its pants to check if it is missing parts of it anatomy.

Are you serious? The elbow was shown clearly on video and it did damage to Anstey.

How could this not be suspension worthy?

The NBL tribunal is really weird and inconsistent with it's cases.

NBL tribunal is a joke and sets a bad example for the rest of the state governing bodies.
Very poor form.

He should have got 4 games for the incident and that he got a suspended sentence during the finals, for rough play, as much as it was Anstey hit hit. Guys like him and Lampley and hinder should be made examples of.

How would Bakari Hendrix and Dragons management be feeling about the decision?

All you can say is WOW!

It was the incident where he raised his elbow into Anstey's chin and Anstey required stitches after the game. Worthington got an unsportsmanlike foul for it at the time.

We need the Victorian Social League tribunal to look into this matter. Knowing their suspensions, wortho would now have 252 Weeks off.

Bakari gets suspended and Wortho gets off? Unbelievable. Be consistent.

WTF
That is the most p*ss weak decisino by the tribunal
Almost as dumb as the AFL tribunal

If anyone can get a video of it it's worth posting

I doubt Wortho will be in the L next year anyway

WTF
That is the most p*ss weak decisino by the tribunal
Almost as dumb as the AFL tribunal

If anyone can get a video of it it's worth posting

I doubt Wortho will be in the L next year anyway

I can't believe it. Anstey came to screen him and copped a deliberate elbow to the chin. When you are not expecting it, in our game, it's very dangerous.

Perhaps the Tigers need to take action now and personally sue him. If the incident had resulted in a loss to the Tigers in that game and subsequent loss of championship, you can bet your bottom dollar that the Tigers would be jumping up and down. As for the suspension everyone thought he should have got, what would he have been suspended from. I don't think you can extend it to the Olympic Games and which club should now suffer the consequence of game suspensions if he does not stay with the Kings? I just think it got a bit too hard for the NBL to deal with and took the easy option, although a personal fine would have been in order regardless.

Anon, also note the addition by the NBL about player/coach/club comment - that note hasn't featured in past tribunal announcements.

EC, if the league is FIBA-sanctioned and the international games also, then a suspension could easily carry over.

Some suggest that Worthington is a chance to join the Tigers which would suggest that Melbourne hardly wanted to push for a suspension!

The Tigers got what they wanted and that was the championship so yes I agree they would hardly want to put any effort into bringing about justice, however if a loss had been the result of Worthington's actions, then I don't think the Tigers would have been so forgiving, regardless of whether there was a chance he would join them this next season or not. Either way, Worthington got away with something others did not. What was so special about this case that warranted being cleared? Why have the NBL said that no public comment was to be made? Shouldn't a public report on how they arrived at their decision be mandatory? What have they got to hide? If the fear is there that a suspension would see Australia disadvantaged in the Olympic games, isn't that cheating the system, just like the ones who try to hide from the fact they have taken performance enhancement drugs? What's the difference? Cheating is cheating.

This is the transcript from the tribunal......

All rise.
The matter of Worthington vs Anstey before Your Honour Chief Justice Brian Goorjian.
BG: Mr. Prosecutor can you state the facts.
MP: 'Well it sort of looked like the victim bumped into the wrist/forearm of the accused'.
BG: The defences response?
D: 'Our client nearly broke his forearm when Mr. Anstey chin butted him'.
BG: Any witnesses?
D: 'No one from Sydney saw a thing'.
MP: 'All the Melbourne fans had tears in their eyes and so what they saw was blurred'.
BG: It was only Anstey, no-one one else was really hurt! Case dismissed.

BULLSHIT!

Isaac, Expect Wortho to be a Taipan if plays NBL....