RODMAN OUT 11 GAMES : ORDER: GET HELP, PAY $25,000 FINE.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. Dennis Rodman booted a courtside court·side n. The area immediately bordering the official court of play, as in tennis or basketball. photographer and on Friday the NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= kicked back. Rodman, the flamboyant Chicago Bulls The Chicago Bulls are a professional basketball team based in Chicago, Illinois. They play in the National Basketball Association. The team was founded in 1966, and has won six NBA Championships since. forward, was given the second-longest suspension in league history. The NBA ordered him to sit out at least 11 games, undergo counseling and pay a $25,000 fine. His latest outburst, kicking courtside cameraman Eugene Amos in the groin during a game Wednesday night at Minneapolis, is the most expensive of Rodman's strange and eventful career. ``He's certainly lost his incentive money. I would think the 11 games of his nondeferred money is going to be well over a million dollars,'' Bulls general manager Jerry Krause Jerry Krause was a longtime professional basketball scout and General Manager for, among other franchises, the Baltimore Bullets and, most notably, the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association. He is a two-time recipient of the NBA's Executive of the Year award. said. Rodman has a one-year, $9 million contract, calling for $6.4 million this season and the remaining $2.6 million to be paid in installments every three years between 2024 and 2039. To earn all of his incentives this season, reports say he would have to play 79 games. It is the third suspension for Rodman since he joined the Bulls in October 1995. Last season, he helped Chicago to a league-record 72 wins and the NBA title. The latest suspension, which began Friday night when the Bulls played Milwaukee, could be longer than 11 games, a stretch that runs through the Feb. 9 All-Star Game An all-star game is an exhibition game played by the best players in their sports league. The players are often chosen by a popular vote of fans of the sport and the game often occurs at the halfway point of the regular season, although this is not the case for some all-star games . After undergoing counseling, Rodman must meet after the break with NBA commissioner David Stern
``Until Dennis can provide meaningful assurances that he will conform his conduct on the playing court to acceptable standards - including not placing others at physical risk - his suspension will continue,'' Stern said in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . ``I think the league did what it felt it had to do and we certainly don't condone what Dennis did,'' said Krause. ``Dennis did this, that's a fact of life, and he's going to have to get this straightened out with the league.'' Krause said he informed the team of the suspension Friday morning at a meeting attended by Rodman. Rodman, the NBA's leading rebounder, was not available for comment. The National Basketball Players Association said it would take legal action to challenge the penalties against Rodman and would challenge the league's policy allowing photographers to sit near the playing surface. ``While we do not condone Dennis' actions, the discipline the league seeks to impose is excessive and unprecedented,'' said Bill Hunter For other persons of the same name, see William Hunter. William Dickenson ("Wild Bill") Hunter CM (May 5, 1920 - December 16, 2002) was a Canadian hockey owner, general manager and coach. , executive director of the NBPA NBPA National Basketball Players Association NBPA National Black Police Association NBPA National Black Prosecutors Association NBPA National Beverage & Products Association NBPA National Broadcast Pilots Association NBPA Nordic-Baltic Police Academy . ``We have filed a grievance today and we intend to forcefully challenge the league's action.'' The only longer suspension of an NBA player came in 1977 when Kermit Washington of the Lakers was suspended 26 games for punching Houston's Rudy Tomjanovich. ``This is excessive and unjust,'' said Rodman's agent, Dwight Manley. ``There's no precedent for it whatsoever and to say he needs professional help from a counselor is unfair. He's perfectly sane and cognizant, and besides, it's a team's job to attend to a player's mental affairs. And the Bulls are happy with his state of mind.'' RODMAN'S SUSPENSION Nov. 20, 1992 - Suspended by Pistons for three games for refusing to go on a road trip. Dec. 20, 1993 - Suspended one game and fined $7,500 for head-butting Chicago's Stacey King and failing to leave the court in a timely fashion after being ejected. March 4, 1994 - Suspended one game and fined $5,000 for head-butting Utah's John Stockton and making derogatory comments about referees after a game. May 2, 1994 - Fined $10,000 and suspended for Game 3 of the Spurs' first-round playoff series with Utah after being called for a flagrant foul and receiving two technicals, his sixth ejection of the season. Nov. 12, 1994 - Begins 14-game paid leave of absence from Spurs. March 18, 1996 - Suspended for six games and fined $20,000 for head-butting a referee following his ejection from a game against New Jersey. Dec. 10, 1996 - Suspended by Bulls for two games after using profanity Irreverence towards sacred things; particularly, an irreverent or blasphemous use of the name of God. Vulgar, irreverent, or coarse language. The use of certain profane or obscene language on the radio or television is a federal offense, but in other situations, profanity in a live television interview following his ejection from a game with the Raptors. Jan. 17, 1997 - Suspended by NBA for at least 11 games and fined $25,000 for kicking a courtside television photographer during a game at Minnesota. Associated Press CAPTION(S): Box Box: RODMAN'S SUSPENSIONS (see text) |
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