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Chris Forsberg has the scoop: Celtics forward Rasheed Wallace has been fined $35,000 for publicly criticizing game officials in comments made to the media on April 19. The announcement was made Thursday by NBA executive vice president of basketball operations Stu Jackson. Wallace, who opened Monday's session with the media by noting he didn't want [...]

For those don't know, Danno is a loyal and passionate Redsarmy reader. He fired off this rant in the comments of the "KG fined $25K for this little diddy" post. It's too good to leave buried in a post. Danno – I hope you don't mind. Every time the NBA fines a player or coach [...]

Yeah… where's your bang-bang fingers now, Gilbert?  Stern says in a statement Wednesday that Arenas' actions will "ultimately result in a substantial suspension, and perhaps worse." Because Arenas violated NBA rules by bringing guns into Washington's locker room, Stern decided to punish Arenas now. He said the suspension begins immediately. Stern says he originally planned [...]

Via Ian Thomsen of SI.com: From my point of view, that is the big question created by the Tim Donaghy scandal, and with this groundbreaking interview, Stern moved closer than any major commissioner in modern times to an acceptance of legalized betting on his games. Stern made no commitment to legalized gambling on NBA games [...]

SI.com's Ian Thomsen debates the issue of women playing in the NBA: • David Stern thinks it will happen. On Tuesday in the conference room outside his NBA office in Manhattan, I asked the commissioner whether we'll see a woman playing in his league someday. "Sure," he said matter-of-factly. "I think that's well within the [...]

Here’s how I think things went down a couple of days ago after Al Horford told the story about Paul Pierce owing him $10 grand. Horford (in the morning):  Hey funny story:  Paul Pierce bet me a couple of years ago that we wouldn’t win a game.  We won 3… so we essentially bet on [...]

The first photos of the replacement referees are out… and it's clear that the contract negotiations are a front for unleashing an army of killer clones onto an unsuspecting population.  Can you tell clone #158 apart from #129?  I can't.    No one can… except for David Stern in his evil lair, evilly stroking his [...]

It's pretty much a done deal.  Russia's richest man, Mikhail Prokhorov, is going to buy an 80% controlling interest in the New Jersey… soon to be Brooklyn… Nets. Suddenly… the "It makes the most sense for LeBron to stay in Cleveland" thing might not apply as much as it used to. The guy is worth [...]

There was never a chance in hell for me to have any interaction at all with people like Paul Pierce (@PaulPierce34) Ray Allen (@SugarRay20) SheldenWilliams (@SheldenWilliams) or Marquis Daniels (@lambo6) until Twitter came along.  These guys have all taken time to interact with fans at some level. But the NBA is about to come out [...]

Deadspin has the story about a rogue scorekeeper from Vancouver who played god with statistics. Here's a sample: Partly because I disagreed with the blatant stat manipulation (that I did) and partly because I'm a Laker fan, I gave Nick Van Exel like 23 assists one game. If he was vaguely close to a guy [...]