Originally Posted by sleazydoesit

If I were World Peace's attorney, I'd plea the charge down from murder to manslaughter. What I mean is he knew he was throwing his arm back as a kind of way to say "get off me", but his intent wasn't to throw the elbow into the guy's head and give him a concussion.

Why didn't he stop to see if Harden was ok? Probably because he didn't even realize what he did. From the real-time wide shot the hit didn't look that bad, at least not until Harden hit the floor.