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Sports: Mo Pete avoids ban for slap
The first phone conversation was between
Morris Peterson and the NBA’s vice-president
of discipline Stu Jackson, the second
involved Jackson and Sam Mitchell
and when all the talking, explaining
and complaining was done, nothing
happened. Which is a good thing for
the Raptors.
Peterson, tossed out of Sunday’s
wild loss to the New Jersey Nets for
slapping good friend Vince Carter in
the face, got no extra punishment for
his ejection, which is exactly what
the Raptors expected.
“It’s like my parents told me,” Peterson
said yesterday. “If you haven’t done anything
wrong, you’re not in trouble.”
It’s not that Peterson didn’t do anything
wrong, it’s that he was the only one
caught for a harmless, mid-game
transgression. After Carter gave him
a little slap in the face, a rather perturbed
Peterson responded and was
caught red-handed by trigger-happy
referee Steve Javie.
Once the whistle went and Peterson
had been assessed his second
technical foul — he got one moments
earlier from Javie for vociferously
complaining about a non-call — there was
nothing anyone could do; his ejection was
automatic.
Posted on Tuesday, January 10 @ 10:51:30 UTC by jcohen
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