NBA.com. NBA Caucus: Where will Kevin Durant rank all-time? Top 10 fines of the 2013-14 NBA season: Soda spills, shoelace stunts and more. Posted April 08, 2014 Andray Blatche, Ben Golliver, Dwight Howard, Gerald Wallace, Glen Davis, J.R. Smith, Jason Kidd, Mark Cuban, Matt Barnes, Zach Randolph Jason Kidd, J.R. Smith and Mark Cuban caught the NBA’s ire for various reasons this season. (Getty Images) With the playoffs fast approaching, The Point Forward is taking a look back at the best and worst of the 2013-14 season. The two best words to describe the 2013-14 NBA season when it comes to fines and suspensions: non-violent and wacky. All told, the NBA and its teams have assessed at least 46 fines and 24 suspensions since July 1, the official start date of the NBA’s calendar.
It’s worth nothing that the amount of some fines and the specifics of a few suspensions were a bit muddled, so the preceding figures are as close to precise as possible. So why does “non-violent” qualify as a descriptor for this season? But the real headliner here? “Mr. The conversation pauses as Thorn fires up his color-coded Excel spreadsheet.
Fines. NBA suspends Mavs' PA announcer for criticizing refs. More NBA: Power Rankings | Expert Picks | Latest news & notes The Dallas Mavericks need every win they can get at the end of this season, as they are still battling it out with the Phoenix Suns and Memphis Grizzlies for one of the final two playoff spots in the Western Conference. Back on April 1, they lost a tough overtime game to the Golden State Warriors, that included a missed goal tending call in the final moments of the overtime period. Jermaine O'Neal goal tended a shot by Monta Ellis, which wasn't called, and then Stephen Curry dropped the winning shot on the next possesion. The Mavericks were visibly upset with the lack of a goal tending call against O'Neal, but I'm not sure anybody was as upset as the American Airlines Center PA announcer for Mavs games.
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