ROCKETS' BARKLEY, DREXLER ARE SUSPENDED AND FINED.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Charles Barkley This article is about the basketball player. For the politican, see Charles E. Barkley Charles Wade Barkley (born February 20 1963) is a retired American professional basketball player. was suspended for two games and Clyde Drexler Clyde Austin Drexler (born June 22, 1962 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a former National Basketball Association shooting guard. A ten-time All-Star and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, he was named one of basketball's fifty greatest players by the NBA. for one, and both Rockets were fined Friday by the NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= for touching referee Jack Nies during Houston's game Thursday night. Barkley also was fined $7,500 for poking Nies' nose and drawing blood during an argument with 5:47 remaining in Houston's 115-101 loss to San Antonio San Antonio (săn ăntō`nēō, əntōn`), city (1990 pop. 935,933), seat of Bexar co., S central Tex., at the source of the San Antonio River; inc. 1837. . Drexler received a $5,000 fine for bumping Nies. Both also received automatic $1,000 fines for being ejected. ``We are not going to allow NBA players to put our referees at physical risk,'' said Rod Thorn, the league's director of basketball operations. ``I don't think that Barkley intentionally tried to injure the referee, but when a player is waving his arms in a referee's face - like Barkley did last night - he will be held responsible for the consequences.'' Rockets spokesman Tim Frank said that Drexler planned to appeal but doesn't think Barkley will. ``The league does what they feel is appropriate and that's what we're going to have to live by,'' Frank said. ``Clyde has disagreed with it, so he's going to take the matter on his own.'' |
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