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Fortson is paying big price.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
OAKLAND, Calif. _ They say money talks. If it does, Warriors power forward Danny Fortson can't hear it. Or isn't listening to it.
Fortson has been suspended by the NBA for four games and has forfeited $226,806 in salary for committing flagrant fouls this season. His latest flagrant foul came in the Warriors-Detroit Pistons game Friday, when he threw Ben Wallace to the floor while going for a rebound.
The league uses a points system to penalize players who commit flagrant fouls. A player is allowed a maximum of five points. He loses one game each for his sixth and seventh points and two games for every point after that. Fortson received two one-game ...
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- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) O'Neil, Danny July 31, 2004 700+ words
...can succeed." Fortson patiently addressed questions about flagrant fouls and physical play...Fortson said. Fortson was suspended...league's limit on flagrant fouls in 2001-02...thug" call. Fortson said he looked...
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- Newspaper article from: The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) November 27, 2003 700+ words
...stoked his ire. He said Fortson's history, which includes a handful of flagrant fouls in his six-year career...contention was that Fortson's push to Cabarkapa...I've had a lot of flagrant fouls in my career. But...punishment against Fortson. Teammates of Cabarkapa...
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- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) June 30, 1997 700+ words
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