The NBA has suspended Bucks guard Grayson Allen for one game without pay as a result of a flagrant foul 2 on Bulls guard Alex Caruso, the league announced on social media (Twitter link). The league deemed the contact on the play to be “unnecessary and excessive.” Allen will serve the suspension on Wednesday, Jan. 26 at Cleveland.
Caruso suffered a fractured wrist as a result of the hard foul and will be sidelined at least six-to-eight weeks. Bulls coach Billy Donovan told reporters, including Darnell Mayberry of The Athletic (via Twitter), that Caruso’s wrist surgery will take place Monday morning.
“For Alex to be in the air like that and for him to take him down like that, it could’ve ended his career,” Donovan said as part of a larger quote, according to K.C. Johnson of NBC Sports Chicago (Twitter link). Donovan also noted that Allen “has a history of this.”
Caruso has averaged 8.4 points, 3.9 rebounds and 1.9 steals per game this season and is one of Chicago’s best defenders. The Bulls are already missing several players due to injuries, including Zach LaVine (knee), Lonzo Ball (knee), Patrick Williams (wrist), Javonte Green (adductor) and Derrick Jones Jr. (knee).
The Bucks are currently 30-19 and the No. 4 seed in the East, while the Bulls are 28-16, the No. 2 seed.
seriously one game. maybe we need to send the 15th man out to headhunt with a hard foul next time we face off
“You don’t send man to headhunt. Man either hunt heads or doesn’t”
Sillivan
I had to mute that guy. Got tired of trying to interpret his nonsensical riddlespeak.
Hey now, some of Silvy’s trade proposals are great. I mean, they might be, if I could comprehend his gibberish.
Nah man… I’m here for basketball nonsense. The more nonsensical, the better. I love Inside the NBA and his analysis beats Shaq’s
It’s laughable that you’re more than ok with the practice of “headhunting” when it benefits your team, but when it hurts your team, you’re all up in arms about a hard foul. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely hated to see Grayson knock Caruso to the ground like that (and the lack of remorse afterwards) but this is just a reckless and classless take. Real NBA fans don’t want to see ANYONE get hurt, no matter what team you support or root against.
Wrong. Real NBA fans want to see the punishment fit the crime. Grayson should not be able to play again until Caruso can. But barring that, next game Bulls should let some guy from their bench whom they can afford to lose for 1 game attack one of Mikwaukee’s key players. Especially since the dirtbags in the MIL front office went to the trouble of issuing a formal statement protesting this lame 1 game suspension. Since that team apparently supports this type of play, they cannot complain when the Bulls return the favor.
Allen is mentally unbalanced. He’ll have periodic incidents like this one forever. He just gets really stupid and aggressive at random times.
Modern day Laimbeer.
Shouldn’t have been suspended at all tbh. It doesn’t matter if a guy gets hurt on a foul or not. Especially if it was the other way around b/c Caruso sure as hell wouldn’t have been suspended if he did this to Allen.
Caruso is not a dirty player and never plays that way.
You clearly didn’t watch the game. It was OBVIOUSLY done on purpose!!
Allen should have been suspended 5 games minimum!! One game sends the message that this type of classless behavior is okay, and thats just wrong.
His history did him no favors….led to him being suspended while others may not have been. Personally I don’t like his style of play….
I thought 2 games would have been fair.
Is he getting paid? If her is, it’s a day off.
No, he does not get paid, or guys would be taking suspensions all the time.
Somehow the Bucks are going to get payback for this. unfortunately it might not be Allen but one of their stars. Bulls will do what they can to get even.
I seriously doubt anyone will GAF in two days.
Watch and see. There will be some very hard fouls on Bucks.
1 game? Is the NBA trying to get this to escalate even more next time the 2 teams play?
I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets 3 “DNP-coaches decisions” for the remaining bucks-bulls match-ups, which won’t help either.
Next time they play, Grayson will get the red carpet to drive in the lane.
Players will be try to be the first one to get him.
The league already knows it’s coming.
What a joke.
Why would the league suspend Grayson?
Really can’t understand it, he already got ejected, so what else do they want from him?
Don’t like this kind of decisions.
Perhaps he could play basketball, not football or WWF?
Dude has a history of being a dirty player. Time for someone to teach this clown a lesson.
How many flagrant fouls has he had in the NBA?
At least one too many.
Still a punk
Should of been more. At least 3 gms. The new NBA can not be about taking guys out who go to basket. If you can’t make a play on the ball. Then just stand and watch. Time to get control of this. It’s like going for the head in football. Those days are OVER. If I’m the Bulls I definitely go after him next gm. Don’t try and go thru a pick. I will lay you out.
The league needed to send a message with their discipline. They sure sent a message: this is fine!
Flagrant 2 = 1 game suspension. If Silver didn’t go over it for Morris (who’s intent was many times clearer), he couldn’t here. This at least started as a basketball play.
Good point
What he has done was so dangerous, AC was driving to the basket at full speed and already took off!
to me he should be suspended like 8 weeks cuz the bulls lost their player for 6-8 wks on a dirty foul . I mean he slammed him with that second hand it looked like he hit his head to . but one game says to Allen just injury the player and it will be worth the one game suspension .
Wonder how he’d react if someone did what he did to him. Broken wrist. Out for a couple of months, etc.
How about this we give Caruso a baseball bat and let him break Allen legs and call it even?
Then afterwards we can play War song “ Why Can’t We Be Friends “…
Do I believe the suspension was on the lite side?
Yes, should have been a five to ten game suspension with a five hundred thousand dollar fine and a warning the next time it will be one month suspension and a million dollar fine but I am harsh that way.
Now the best thing the Bulls can do is mock the whole thing and play a song like “ Why Can’t We Be Friends “ while Caruso does some type of dance mocking Allen at every meet…
Mocking someone like Allen will cause him to erupt more and sooner or later he will get tossed from the league, well hopefully…