Through the years with stomping

Draymond Green, Golden State forward and noted impulse control failure, just got a Lifetime Achievement Award sitdown from the NBA gendarmes for punk-stomping Sacramento's Domitas Sabonis. And right away the Blob was launched into old-man-who-can't-let-it-go mode.

Thirty-one years later, see, I'm still pissed about Christian Laettner getting away with punk-stomping Aminu Timberlake of Kentucky.

"Oh, for heaven's sake," you're saying. "Laettner apologized for that years ago. Let it go."

Didn't I just say I couldn't?

See, Draymond did the same thing to Sabonis the other night, and because it's Draymond, he was suspended for a game. Laettner, of course, got nothing for stomping on Timberlake, which we all know because later on he hit that shot CBS keeps showing ad nauseum during March Madness.

(Note to the network: Enough. Please. Laettner's 53 years old now. What's next, you're gonna add Hank Luisetti hitting a jumpshot to the March montage?)

(Note to the Bloboverse: Yes, I know you've never heard of Hank Luisetti. That's why God gave us Google, children. Look him up.)

Anyhoo ...

Yes, old-man-who-can't-let-it-go still wishes one of Timberlake's teammates would have immediately dispensed justice by putting Laettner on the deck with a right cross. Or, better yet, that the gutless officials would have taken a break from being intimidated by Mike Krzyzewski long enough to immediately eject Laettner.

But enough about then.

("Finally!" you're saying.)

What about now?

Look. The Blob is not going to defend what Draymond did the other night, nor what he's done on a succession of other nights. The guy once decked one of his own teammates (Jordan Poole) the way some Kentucky Wildcat should have decked Laettner, after all. So stomping on Sabonis was simply water seeking its own level in a sense.

However ...

However, Sabonis did grab his leg as Draymond turned to run upcourt.

And he did get tagged with a Flagrant 1 foul for that.

So at least for once Draymond's acting out was not entirely unprovoked. Unlike, oh, that other guy 31 years ago.

Fine. I'll shut up about it now.