Washington Wizards coach Eddie Jordan may coach his players not to travel, but his tongue walked a bit too much after the Wizards NBA playoff series with the Cleveland Cavaliers, and Jordan is paying for it. Many times things can go completely unnoticed in the NBA; fans do not see a play that draws a foul, the instigation that insights a brawl, and many times when the officiating is badgered. The Wizards-Cavaliers playoff series was not one of these moments however, as the coach of the Washington Wizards was slapped with a $25,000 fine by the NBA, for flagrant use of the tongue. Following a close game ending in the Cavaliers winning 97-96 over the Wizards, in game 3 of their best of seven playoff series. Eddie Jordan was noticed complaining over the officiating, or as he claimed lack there of. It was neither NBA commissioner David Stern himself that revealed the fine and not the Wizards nor the League. What the whole affair came down to was questionable at best, where the Cavaliers Lebron James apparently traveled just prior to driving to the net for the one point upset over the Wizards. Jordan felt that there should have been a call on the play; when there was no such call Jordan made it a point to verbally assault the Official in charge. Eddie Jordan knowing that the game was at a neck and neck standpoint, felt that everything that his team did right on that evening was washed away over poor officiating and was perturbed to say the least. He went on to state that the Wizards star Gilbert Arenas is not as fortunate, as Lebron James when it comes to calls such as this. This is not the first incident involving coaches running their mouths, some get away with it, clearly it was not Eddie Jordan's lucky day. |
