"If he's got the guts, let him throw elbows at Ah Gan, see my nose. I'd rather go up against Ah Gan. At least as long as you don't play dirty against him, his game is absolutely clean," said Jack Sikma, the center for the Bucks, during a media interview, putting pressure on the League's operations office.
Because the game was already over, and things like throwing elbows are common in the League, it was hard for Thorne to issue a retroactive fine to Cartwright.
All he could do was call the Bulls and request that Cartwright wear a soft elbow pad in games, to make his elbows less hard.
Cartwright refused when he heard this, saying that wearing an elbow pad would affect his game feel, especially his shooting.
Phil Jackson then said, Cartwright will not wear an elbow pad, and the Bulls won't make him, it's a player's personal freedom.
