Despite a number of suspensions and flagrant fouls for relatively minor offenses so far in the playoffs, NBA commissioner David Stern said Thursday night he was satisfied with the league’s disciplinary process. Stern does not wish to return to the rough-and-tumble days of past. He does not believe the league has overreacted in handing out suspensions for such infractions as the body check the Lakers’ Derek Fisher laid on Houston’s Luis Scola in Game 2. “No, no, no, a thousand times no,” Stern said before the Lakers played the Rockets in Game 6 of their second-round series. “We’ve got the world’s best athletes going at huge speeds, very strong in a confined place. There’s not going to be a lessening of the rules so we can go back to the good old days where a man’s man could ring somebody’s bell or clock somebody, OK?”Â
