Nene found out last night that the Spoonman doesn’t mess around when it comes to fighting.
Bill Spooner gave Nene the axe after he head butted and dropped an elbow on Louis Admanson in last night’s Nuggets-Suns game. After the ejection, Nene tried to get into Spooner’s face. I’m assuming that it was to politely ask him why he had been ejected.
It will be interesting to see if the league looks into this the same way they looked in the Doc Rivers-Bill Kennedy incident. It appeared that Spooner relished Nene getting in his face – almost as if he welcomed it and perhaps goaded him into it. Kennedy was accused by Rivers of goading him into a confrontation.
Now you have to consider that Nene has been upset with the officiating most of the season, so the league could just chalk this up to his continued frustration. But it will be interesting to see if league takes actions similar to what they did with Kennedy.
And it will be even more interesting to see what sort of reaction the NBA Referee Union has to this incident.
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