Vince Carter not punished
January 2, 2009 by James Edwards
Filed under NBA Basketball, New Jersey Nets
NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Vince Carter got into it with a Ref and supposedly bumped him. The Ref called him Boy and the league had a long talk with both of them.
Referee Derrick Stafford called two quick technicals on Carter after he argued an out-of-bounds call in the second quarter of the Pistons’ 83-75 victory.
A furious Carter went after the official following his ejection and seemed to bump Stafford. Carter had to be held back by teammates.
“We have spoken to both Vince and Derrick about their exchange during Wednesday’s game, and decided not to take any action with respect to the language that was used or any inadvertent contact that may have occurred,” the league said Friday in a statement provided in an e-mail by spokesman Tim Frank.
“However, we are going to make sure the two of them talk in the near future to clear up any misunderstandings that may remain about what was said during the argument,” the statement added.
The league said Stafford “expressed regret for his use of the word ‘boy,’ and we are persuaded that he did not use it with the intention of demeaning Vince.”
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