During game three of an intense Miami Heat, Chicago Bulls eastern conference semi-finals playoff series Friday night, Bulls center, Nazr Mohammed, was involved in a shoving incident with James which lead to James getting a technical and Mohammed ejected. Since then, Mohammed has stated he didn’t think an ejected was the right call and has since apologized.
While Mohammed has waited to hear from the league on whether or not he’ll loss compensation or get suspended, according to K.C. Johnson of The Chicago Tribune, that won’t be the case as Mohammed won’t receive either or.
"There will be no fine or suspension coming Bulls center for Nazr Mohammed following his Game 3 ejection on Friday night.“I’m trying to move on from that,” Mohammed said. “I think I talked pretty long and I waited for you guys and kind of explained everything the other night. I don’t want to keep dragging it on, dragging it on. I mean, I think I covered everything.“You were there the whole time … take it for what I covered. I don’t really want to keep dwelling on it. I’m just getting myself prepared to play tomorrow. “We have to defend our home court. They took back home-court advantage by coming in our gym and winning, and the most important thing is to win tomorrow.”"
While the league won’t fine or suspended Mohammed, they did however fine Bulls head coach, Tom Thibodeau, $35,000 for his remarks during the post game conference in where he criticized officials. The team as well has accused James for initially flopping which led to the shoving match.
Do you think the officials over-reacted when they ejected Mohammed? As well, should he have been fine or suspended for game four against the rival Heat? Sound off in the comments below.