If Conger can get suspended in the nbl for his incident, surely the cambage one jas to be looked at.
Do the nbl and wnbl use the same citing/tribunal system?

I think this footage speaks a thousand words...But BA are keeping quiet. What a great look for women's sport.

So what is the wnbl's citing/tribunal system. Is there one or does BA just decide penalties for indiscretions?

What a dog act from a classless woman.
If she doesn't get weeks then the WNBL is a joke.

Good luck BA suspending anyone this season for similar behaviour!

Who's meant to protect the integrity of the game?

....'dead leg' painful...

BA are in a tough position to suspend their marque player who is also a paid ambassador of the WNBL!

Looking at the video, Cambage makes no attempt to jump because she's running forward when she lifts her right knee (the worst kneeing), and then continues to run forward and uses her left knee as a follow-up.

Yes, she's watching the ball throughout and can claim ignorance, but I bet she can use her peripheral vision like the rest of us.

I'd call it intimidation rather than clumsiness, and consider anything she says as unreliable.

Now it's over to the WNBL to show it has some integrity.

Please tweet this to bogut, then put the popcorn on.

I've watched the whole game again and watch Liz on every defensive rebound and did not see her do this at any other time?

It was disgraceful. I brought my daughter to the game and she saw the whole thing unfold and asked me 'Mummy, why did Lizzy do that??' and I didn't have a good answer.

We've been going to Melbourne Boomers games for over a year now and I have to explain to my daughter every week about some act of childish behaviour that Liz does.

I hope the Boomers organisation do something to pull her into line beceause they're supposed to be the family club??

Needs to be banned. Doesn't have the mentality to play at an elite level. What a thug.

Cambage didn't look too apologetic or remorseful after the incident? Makes you wonder...

Would have been less outcry if they came out and suspended her

And not only does Boti give Cambage his "player of the week" on his blog, he then has a crack at Bass on Twitter!! Poor, poor form.

Looks like Boti is protecting the integrity of BA rather than basketball!

Why even suspend her for that? She has issues, and she needs to be removed and unregistered as a player. For someone to do that must mean they have some mental issues up stairs. Clearly a huge talent but she uses all her energy like a bully at school. What a waste.

Time for Liz to hit the deck's as she is under so much pressure the poor thing.

There's no place for that on the basketball court. It's that simple.
If there's a cover-up it's not going too well, with The Pick And Roll tagging the WNBL in their tweet this morning, and now Fox Basketball tweeting about it too.

She has to cop a game for that, surely.

That fox sports clip shows the entire play and Liz was clearly annoyed by the hard box out.

She then gather's her thoughts and assaults the victim with a deliberate knee.

That is foul. I haven't seen that in Social ball and I've seen some shtt.

What a sad state of affairs for the WNBL. It appears someone being Liz is more important to protect than the league! Can't wait to watch what else she can get away with!!

"jostling for position" - it looked pretty intentional to me, but then so did Ingles' crotch hit the other week.

you are all picking om her because she is a world class athlete and DJ, is a woman and is non-Caucasian, she comes from an economic refugee family and is mentally fragile because of the bullying she received during her time in the severely racially biased Australian education system.

Actually , while all the above may well be true in respect of how most women in those situations have been treated , thats not why I view her in a bad light,

Her behaviour actually throws all those women who have endured and overcome those real disadvantages into a very bad light and diminishes their actual achievements against real adversity.

From my understanding, from more than a few sources, while Liz does lay loud and frequent claim to having endured the same disadvantages, and she truly and honestly imagines herself to be a Icon of triumph over adversity, she is really more a product of a privileged and self-indulgent background and has almost always taken full advantage of that background to the detriment off those around her. The world owes her and she avidly collects with interest

there are lots of people around sport like this, but its still a Bit sad really

But Jostling for position !!! BS, Liz lined her up from 5 metres away and took Misty out, simple, straight forward and non-debatable. But wait for post season and Liz will tweet about how she was allowed to be brutalized in the WNBL by the racialist refs, and how she was deliberately set up to get suspended by the league.

I'm glad Canberra lodged a complaint, BA and the WNBL would have looked silly if that went under the radar.

On one hand, it's pretty much impossible to prove someone's intent. On the other hand, it's pretty hard to justify that unusual movement as any type of normal basketball move.

I'm thinking that the WNBL will have no issues with suspending her for one game, since their next game is on the road in Townsville.
They'll hate the thought of more though, with this round being "cluster round", where every team in the league is in action in Melbourne.
So my prediction is 2 games reduced to 1 game with an early guilty plea.

Wow. Finally watched the footage. Absolutely no reason for her knee to be raised liked that other than to cause injury.
That's really grubby.

Expect to see Liz Cambage Vs Gabi Garcia coming to a screen near you!

I guess before that we'll blame Australian society and everyday racism for this type of poor behavior as this country hasn't given her anything and owes her everything.

Just as natural as Toby Green's marking action.

Whatever's fair, get on with it and all's forgiven ... but if they could see fit to make it two matches then it might not take me so long to get of the carpark on Sunday.

Verdict is in: 2 game suspension, reduced to 1 game with an early guilty plea

*pretend shock*

Link

Is this the first time in the history of the WNBL that a female player will be suspended?

Is this the first time in the history of the WNBL that a female player will be suspended?

Why wouldn't Canberra report it? It was a non-basketball play against one of their players. I commend them for sticking up for Bass.

Probably sonewhat lenient penalty but it's better than nothing. You'd like to think she might think twice before doing something like that again.

I think the game review panel got it wrong by saying 'rough play'; it's called 'Came-Barged!

Are you f*cking kidding me 'anonymous 658818' ? The WEAK thing to do was to nothing about this ..

Solid trolling /10

Even the commentators refuse to call out Liz for her actions. Somebody just needs to deal her a solid elbow to the chin of throat. That's the only way she is going to learn.

"Probably sonewhat lenient penalty but it's better than nothing. You'd like to think she might think twice before doing something like that again."

Oh she will do that again and probably more because "thinking" is not part of her makeup, never has been, she's always played the "poor me" , when in fact she's had it all handed to her.

Wonder how Boomers will handle this media release, when she was thrown out of the first game of the season they totally ignored it like it never happened, they can't exactly ignore this can they lol

From memory the last player to be suspended in the WNBL was Bridgette Ardossi of the Canberra Capitals, for deliberately tripping an opposition player. 2012/13 season , I think.

Canberra imposed the Ardossi suspension not the WNBL to uphold their values and culture of their club!

When Cambage was meant to be the first person to slam dunk in the WNBL; She will now be known as the first person slam dunked by the WNBL!

This one (http://i.imgur.com/AR45Gwz.gif) reminded me of the Brian Conklin incidents in the NBL the other year - "Oh, I was just accidentally flailing around" - or (as someone else mentioned) Draymond Green's dirty leg kicks.

So many steaming hot takes on this thread that should be thrown into the sea.....

So what exactly are the "steaming hot takes"?? What does that even mean? Try discussing the issue.

Snooch, I'm talking about the takes like;
'she doesn't have the mentality to play elite' - she just dropped 40 points the previous weekend.

'it's being covered up' - except it wasn't. The moon landing was covered up better.

'she should be banned from the game for life' - people have done much worse and had to write an apology letter.

'it was just her natural motion' - probably the most worthy of being chucked in the sea, it's deliberate and dumb at best, malicious at worse.


She deserved to be punished, and she has. Professional sports people often do dumb things, which is why a system exists to punish them.

habitual; i don't think you know what that word means....

People play 'illegal' against Liz? Perhaps a wider perspective - like watching other action in which she is involved - might be informative.

If Liz [almost] always played within the rules she might have at least a moral right to demand a little more understanding and compassion, but whoever said it, suggesting she is being victimised by opponents using 'underhanded, dirty' tactics is really rich.

If it is happening, which I question, can I suggest that it might be in an effort to counter Liz's illegal tactics, which strangely seldom seem to ever get called.

As evidence I cite the picture of the blatant offensive 'hook' published in SA's 'The Advertiser' a few days ago, from a game in which she was called for just two fouls.

All that said, there is no place in the game for blatantly illegal actions by Liz or anyone else, and in this specific instance there is simply no excuse for Liz's action, which based on the video was clearly an intentional, since it required her to break stride and raise her knee unnaturally to make impact.

To rub salt in the wound she then proceeded to charge to the basket and wipe out another player with a blatant body push that, like the knee, went un-called.

I'd suggest she is a protected species, not a subject of victimisation.

Just read luuc's link to the age article:

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/basketball/wnbl-star-liz-cambage-accepts-one-game-ban-after-clash-with-canberra-capitals-mistie-bass-20171121-gzpk0c

Chubby Checker’s daughter!

DJ Lizzy knees Chubby's baby

Maybe Liz don't like that old time rock n roll

Anyone who doesn't like Liz is a casual racist, according to a terrible podcast called basket case

well said ANON^^

Unfortunately she is surrounded by SJW's like just look at her social media feeds and those she follows etc

Are the female team called the Boomers or just the men?

I thought just the Men.

That is a pretty nasty contact.

Her eyes were following the ball so she could claim she was following the ball and going for the rebound. (but...peripheral vision) Her left foot was fixed and she could say she was moving from the side of the key to the top, but her body wasn't twisting to suggest she was and her left foot didn't rotate. Her right knee came across her left.

Looking at the footage (thank imgur poster) I think on the balance of probabilities there was intent to make contact.

Liz has no idea. She tries to champion a cause that she truly has no idea about. She has lived a privileged life that has had all of zero of the complications REAL black people face. And I can't stand how she throws the race card around that honestly she hasn’t earned. She is the last person as a black person I want speaking on my behalf.

Her spoiled brat behavior, perceived selfishness, and lack of awareness is not a representation upon what I want our race to be judged. People who kiss her ass because she’s tall and can dunk do her no favors. People who continue to give her opportunities within media, entertainment and basketball she has not earned fuel her ignorant behavior and inflated view of her importance.

She is a roll model to my children of how not to be in he world. So if you dislike Liz and her antics you are not a racist your are a good judge of the character she displays to those who don’t kiss her ass or live in her bubble. To be clear I am speaking of Liz the public figure, basketball player and media personality. Who she is in her private life could be different.

You've gone off half-cocked....... she didn't throw the race card around, someone on a random podcast did.....

Jesus. H. Christ.

@Hustle - Damn straight Girl!

Not about being black enough it's about her being black only when it suits her. And @king I watched many an interview with her and she tried to talk about bringing awareness of racial inequality and racism.. Please. She’s as ignorant as any white person about that subject. She has no clue.

A few tweets here and there and a 2 min mention on a tv show after talking about spinning records for 45 minutes doesn’t cut it. She just needs to stick to her expertise which is selfishness and leave the civil rights stuff to people who have actually been through something.
I’ve been through plenty in my life and in no way would I act in the manor she does with those opportunities because I know the more people watching the more people judging. And instead of reinforcing stereo types you stamp them out. She would do more good by having role model behavior and turning the other cheek than running her mouth and having Twitter wars with other athletes.

When you have a public fued with an idiot, from a distance people can’t tell which one is the idiot. And with her latest antics she is proving Andrew right

When you have a public fued with an idiot, from a distance people can't tell which one is the idiot. And with her latest antics she is proving Andrew right

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