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The illustrious Dan Steinberg of D.C. Sports Bog offers up the following evidence of a late-regular season throat slash gesture from Cavalier Damon Jones. You'll find it at the one-minute mark.



Wizard DeShawn Stevenson, of course, just got fined $25,000 for the old throat slash (seen in a pretty perfect animated gif at Mr. Irrelevant), an act labeled a "menacing gesture" by the NBA. So do we have a double standard here? Is the league just looking to crack down on any extracurricular activity in the quite testy Wizards-Cavs series?

I think the explanation's more simple than that: No one is menaced by anything Damon Jones does. I think Damon Jones could stand in front of me with a bloody machete and I might shrug. (And machetes freak me out!) Jones would have to simulate human castration on Eddie Jordan to get fined for a "menacing gesture."