Merged: Joel's Grandma Is PO'd!

[ABM]

From: The Star Tribune

An 80-something in-law of Portland Trailblazer Joel Przybilla is mad at NBA Commissioner David Stern because the league fined her 7-foot-1 relative for his role in a shoving match with an opposing player last week.

Stella Stawski, whose granddaughter is married to Przybilla, said this morning that it's unfair that the former Gopher and Monticello (Minn.) High School center has to pay the league $7,500 for the physical to-do he had Friday with New Orleans center Tyson Chandler.

Stawski, 83 and just a few inches over 5 feet tall, said she mentioned to a friend that she had a mind to fire off a letter to Stern but now concedes that it probably wouldn't do much good. Even so, she's passionate in defending her oversized relative.............

.............."The altercation started with the other young man," Stawski, who lives in suburban Milwaukee, said this morning. "The first punch was done to Joel, not the other way around. ... That was a totally flagrant foul."...

 

[chris_in_pdx]

Re: Joel's Grandma Is PO'd!

Here's a good video of the incident

[video=youtube;khM5WjeyLQA]

 

[bluefrog]

"The Vanilla Grandmilla"

Remember the movie "Shawshank Redemption", where Andy Dufresne wrote a letter every week to the state to get books for the prison library? Well, the same concept is underway with the grandmother of Blazers center Joel Przybilla.

The octogenarian plans to write NBA commissioner David Stern a series of letters complaining about the $7,500 fine Przybilla received for his part in an altercation with New Orleans center Tyson Chandler on Friday. Chandler was ejected and suspended a game for throwing a punch. Przybilla said he was stunned at the fine, but was handling it better than his grandmother.

"She said she is going to keep writing Stern until she hears back from him,'' Przybilla said smiling. "And believe me, she will.''

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ba...el-the-wrath-of-The-Vanilla-Gr?urn=nba,132771

Give 'em Hell Grandma!

 

[talman]

Re: "The Vanilla Grandmilla"

http://sportstwo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=132644

 

[Nate Dogg]

Since Joel has a facebook account (link below), perhaps the grandmother is off of his friends list? Then we can all write comments to her.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/joel-przybilla/45432855457

 

[MrJayremmie]

LOL! I love her! And I agree w/ her. I don't think what Joel did deserved a fine, specially not after Chandler did that to his broken (bone in his) wrist.

 

[chris_in_pdx]

Since Joel has a facebook account (link below), perhaps the grandmother is off of his friends list? Then we can all write comments to her.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/joel-przybilla/45432855457

That's a fan page, not Joel's personal Facebook account.