Atlanta Hawks star Dejounte Murray is underneath investigation by the NBA after he bumped a referee following a house playoff sport loss towards the Boston Celtics on Sunday, ESPN’s Tim Bontemps reported.
Murray, who had 23 factors, 9 rebounds and 6 assists in his group’s 129-121 loss to the Celtics, approached referee Gediminas Petraitis as the ultimate buzzer sounded, appeared to make contact with him, and exchanged phrases with somebody as he left his house courtroom.
After the bump, Petraitis stood in place and stared at Murray as he walked away.
The NBA suspended Boston Celtics ahead Grant Williams for one sport after he made contact with a referee earlier this season.
The league’s rulebook states that “any participant or coach responsible of intentional bodily contact with an official shall mechanically be suspended with out pay for one sport” and any fines or longer suspensions might happen “if circumstances so dictate.”
There was no less than as soon as occasion of a participant avoiding a suspension after making contact with a referee prior to now.
The NBA hit Detroit Pistons participant Hamidou Diallo with a $20,000 superb final season after he received ejected for shoving a referee throughout a loss towards the Celtics.
The league tends to make discipline-related choices forward of the following sport in a playoff sequence, ESPN famous.
The Hawks play the Celtics once more on Tuesday.
The Hawks, who're down 3-1 within the first-round NBA playoff sequence, didn’t make Murray out there to the media following the loss.
Murray was beforehand tossed from a sport, though not suspended thereafter, when he threw a basketball and hit a referee’s legs throughout a sport between the Memphis Grizzlies and his previous group, the San Antonio Spurs, final 12 months.
The NBA later fined him $20,000 for the incident.
HuffPost has reached out to the NBA for remark.
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