Dwight Howard gets 1-game suspension after Game 5 flagrant upgraded (Ball Don’t Lie)

Dwight Howard's 2014-15 season ended on Wednesday night. As he learned Friday, though, being done playing doesn't mean you can't still get suspended. [ Follow Dunks Don't Lie on Tumblr: The best slams from all of basketball] A league review of the offensive foul Howard committed on forward Andre Iguodala late in the fourth quarter of the Golden State Warriors' Western Conference finals-ending victory over the Houston Rockets in Wednesday's Game 5 — ruled a flagrant foul-1 on the floor — should have been called a flagrant-2. A retroactive upgrade of the foul means increases the number of "flagrant points" that Howard accrued during the postseason from three to four — you get one point for a flagrant-1 and two for a flagrant-2, and Howard had already committed a pair of flagrant-1s in the postseason. League rules stipulate that when you pass three flagrant points in the postseason, you've got to sit out your next game ... even if your next game doesn't come until next season. Here's Howard's forearms-up screen on Iguodala, the play in question: And here's the announcement of the upgraded penalty, from NBA President of Basketball Operations Rod Thorn: The incident,...