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Now we have to hope for justice, and no Peace.
Metta World Peace has left us with no other choice. Not after that sequence late in the first half of Sunday’s game at the Staples Center: the elbow that dropped James Harden in a heap, the fighting stance as Harden’s Thunder teammates circled him in retaliation, the wide-eyed, unfocused expression that looked disturbingly familiar.
That has to be the last time we see him on an NBA court this season.
It doesn’t have to be the NBA that does the entire deed, although rarely has the league been as justified to throw the book at a player as it is today.
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