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::paging mr. stern......paging david stern please, david stern will you please suspend s. jax please::
unless of course you like the idea of the thug players, cussing at the crowd, other players, and your officials.....
Nelson will fine Jackson, Davis for actions in Game 2Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Though the Bay Area is abuzz with excitement for the Golden State Warriors' first home playoff game in 13 years, the Warriors are getting a few remedial lessons in keeping their cool.
Warriors coach Don Nelson said Thursday he will fine Baron Davis and Stephen Jackson for being ejected from Golden State's 112-99 loss in Game 2 of the club's first-round playoff series against the Dallas Mavericks.
Davis and Jackson put on a taunting, preening display that dampened an otherwise successful trip for the eighth-seeded Warriors, who stole Game 1 from the heavily favored Mavs and headed back to the West Coast with homecourt advantage in the series, starting with Game 3 on Friday night.
"It doesn't make any sense to me, as hard as we worked to get to the playoffs, to all of a sudden get there and not be able to play because of ejections and not controlling our emotions," Nelson said before a brief workout at the Warriors' downtown training complex.
"I want to play with passion. I want to play with emotions, (but) have respect for authority out there. The referees are the authority, and just like when I make a decision, I expect the respect to be there for me. ... Things don't always go your way, and you've got to control your emotions."
The NBA hasn't announced any potential discipline against Davis, who apparently was thrown out for sarcastically applauding the officials late in the third quarter, or Jackson, who left the court in a contentious, roundabout manner after getting his second technical foul in the final minutes.
But on what should have been a celebratory day before hoops-crazy Oakland's first taste of the postseason since 1994, Davis and Jackson spent the day avoiding direct comment on a dressing-down from their veteran coach. Nelson didn't announce the amount of his fines, only saying, "it will be substantial."
Neither player betrayed any particular anger about the fines -- perhaps a testament to Nelson's control of the club in his first season back in town. The Warriors spoke mostly about improving their defense and harnessing the energy of their sellout crowd Friday night after splitting the first two games.
"That's in the past," said Davis, who had just 13 points Wednesday night after scoring 33 in the series opener. "I'm not even going to talk about that, not even a little bit. It doesn't have even a little relevance."
Davis kept clapping for the officials while standing at the bench, even when Nelson asked him to stop. Davis defended his clapping a bit, saying, "I was stopping."
Jackson still could face a suspension for the very definition of failing to leave the court in a timely manner. He took time to shout at officials and spar with fans on the long walk back to the locker room, but the swingman was cool again Thursday.
"I love basketball," Jackson said. "I'm going to continue to play with a lot of emotion. Obviously, I've got to police myself. It's obvious, and I will continue to do that, but my passion for the game will never change."
The Mavericks already learned last year about remaining calm in the playoff cauldron. Their path to the NBA finals was littered with misbehavior -- Jason Terry's one-game suspension for punching San Antonio's Michael Finley below the belt; D.J. Mbenga's five-game suspension for going into the stands; Jerry Stackhouse's one-game ban in the NBA finals for a hard foul on Shaquille O'Neal.
"Guys can get suspended, so we kept our cool (in Game 2)," Dallas forward Josh Howard said. "That's something that comes with experience."
But that cool didn't slow down a series that's become more compe ive and exciting than most 1-8 matchups in an average year. Dallas' win in Game 2 snapped Golden State's six-game winning streak against the NBA's best regular-season team -- and it might have awakened the Mavs' compe ive spirit as well after they were outfoxed by Nelson and Davis in the opener.
"Those guys have got pride, a lot of pride," said Al Harrington, who hasn't made much of an impact for the Warriors. "They didn't have the best record for nothing. It was getting a little heated (in Game 2). Guys were talking trash, which they didn't in the first game."
Coach Avery Johnson missed the Mavericks' workout in Dallas while tending to a family emergency in Houston, but was expected to join the game for the flight to California. Johnson was the starting point guard for the Warriors' last playoff team under Nelson in 1994.
"You have to realize once things don't go in your favor, you have to let it go and focus on the next play, the next assignment, the next task," said Devean George, who has three championships rings from his days with the Lakers.
"You can't get caught up into what didn't go in your favor before. I think experienced players allow things to just happen and then move on."
Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press
::paging mr. stern......paging david stern please, david stern will you please suspend s. jax please::
unless of course you like the idea of the thug players, cussing at the crowd, other players, and your officials.....
Quit crying. You're a 67 win team. You're praying for a 42 win team to have its two best players out. So pitiful.
hey they are good....they should be better....REMEMBER THEY HAD THAT TRADE IN FEB? 2 MONTHS AGO?
before that they had dunleavy and crew....i love how everyone decides to leave important info out
i just don't want dangerous thugs out on the floor, remember THE PALACE? s jax swinging at fans? that's great if your into UFC or that garbage WWE....but this is the NBA, some people like a lil more class
Stern is more interested in suspending players that protect their head coach's wife from an angry mob of drunken fans.
from all accounts of that incident, antonio's wife deserved a verbal beat down due to her penchant for talking . i believe she even slapped a guy.
I've said it a hundred times and I'll say it again....Stern needs to go...bring in Condi Rice!
that may have been the case, i've heard some of the same stuff about that incident, but i was referring to mbenga protecting avery johnson's wife in the playoffs last year.
ah. wasn't he wearing plain clothes at the time? i remember this incident, not because of the cir stances, but because i was saying to myself "who the is dj mbenga and why is his loss important?" if you're going to get a six game suspension, you should at least get to slap somebody around.
Wonder if Terdema had to tell Stern what Jackson said to him on the way out?
I don't think he needs to be suspended, but you know Stern will take a look at a player exchanging words with another team's president when he should have already been off the court.
Don't worry, Cuban probably has that covered.
Coach Avery Johnson missed the Mavericks' workout in Dallas while tending to a family emergency in Houston, but was expected to join the game for the flight to California.
what did his wife get in a fight again?
I doubt she was in any real danger. A friend of mine who used to work security at the AT&T center says Avery's wife is a real pain in the ass.
AVERY! Control your Betty!
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