Rasheed Wallace Suspended, Amare Stoudemire Next?

Rasheed Wallace picked up his 16th technical of the season last night in Denver, which means he has also picked up a one game suspension. The suspension will be served during tomorrow's game in Los Angeles against the disappointing Clippers, so it may not impact his squad that much this time. Wallace was asked about the suspension after the game, and predictably he was less than repentant in his response:

"It don't matter to me. They think suspending me one game, I'm losing all this money and this and that. Money ain't nothing to me for the simple fact I wasn't born with it. Just as fast as you get money, you can lose money. Money's not going to change my character, money's not going to change the person I am."

*Sigh* I realize the question that was posed here probably involved something about missing a game's pay, which goes along with the suspension. So if 'Sheed doesn't care about the money, that's fine, but it would be nice if he cared about his teammates who want to win games, and who will have a harder time doing so with Wallace on the sidelines.

Amare Stoudemire of the Suns is very close to putting his team in the same situation. He's currently sitting on 14 technicals, just two away from the mandatory suspension. Amare claims not to swear at the officials, and that he gets them for small gestures he makes instead. That doesn't change the fact that he's still getting them, so he needs to stop doing things like rolling the ball after a questionable call, or throwing the ball at a player on the ground after he's just run them over and received an offensive foul.

Both the Suns and the Pistons need all the wins they can get to position themselves for a run deep into the playoffs. It's too bad that they have selfish superstars that are more interested in expressing their feelings on the court than they are in helping their teams win.