Larry Brown racks up 60K fine EveryJoe

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.

Larry Brown looked stunned. He had just been ejected for debating a call by a replacement referee. How could he eject the grand old man of NBA basketball coaching? That was not all. The NBA decided to fine Larry two times for the one game. It must have been a 2 for 1 sale.

Larry Brown refuses to be a puppet for the NBA

So was Larry Brown abusive to the referee? Does a Bear … Well, you get it. Yeah, Larry was abusive. He is always abusive.

It is funny, but watching Larry up close in Detroit, he was often worse than Rasheed Wallace and often jumped in to the fray of things to keep Rasheed from getting the technical. He told Rasheed that his job was to play and mine is to defend you.

So what happened that caused the NBA to fine Larry twice for a total of 60,000 dollars?

This chain of events began at halftime of the Bobcats’ 17-point loss to the Atlanta Hawks, after Charlotte forward Gerald Wallace was charged with a questionable offensive foul.

Brown approached lead official Kevin Scott, who charged him with a technical foul. Things became sufficiently heated that Bobcats point guard Raymond Felton acted as a barrier between Scott and Brown as the two walked off the court.

Then, with about 31/2 minutes left in the third quarter, forward Vladimir Radmanovic was charged with a personal foul and a technical foul, setting Brown off again. He began shouting at Scott, a former college and development-league referee, and Scott responded with a second technical foul, an automatic ejection.

Looking stunned, Brown lingered on the court for several minutes. Finally Scott walked to the scorers table and called for Hawks security to remove Brown from the court. He left at that point.

Brown didn’t speak with reporters immediately after the game. Asked the next day if he deserved to be ejected, he said, “I’m sure I did.”
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Now this isn’t a problem with Larry Brown. No, far from it. This is a problem with having replacement referees. The NBA has gone overboard to defend the replacement referees so nobody will supposedly notice they are on the court. That is not going to work with Larry Brown. Believe you me; he is as intense a coach as there is in the game. He demands his players play playoff style ball in every minute of every game. Do you think this is going to change Larry’s behavior?