John I think you have this one dead wrong. The rule is specific to "leave the bench during a fight." There was no fight, in fact neither ventured any further onto the court than Tim Duncan did earlier in the same contest. But citing a "lack of incident" that occurrence was excused. The bottom line here is clear: A team that starts an altercation should not benefit from the altercation. Horry should have been tossed for the series. To suspend Stoudemire (there is a slight argument for his suspension) and Diaw (Looking at the video his suspension was complete BS) for "leaving the bench" when their star PG was slammed into press row (next to their bench, no less) is insane and worse, it promotes that kind of dirty and inexplicable play. If the Spurs win this series on a thug play like that, it will be a severe black-eye to the NBA and will invalidate the playoffs.