Mo Pete avoids ban for slap
Date: Tuesday, January 10 @ 10:51:30 UTC
Topic: Black Habits Articles


The first phone conversation was between Morris Peterson and the NBA’s vice-president of discipline Stu Jackson, the second involved Jackson and Sam Mitchell and when all the talking, explaining and complaining was done, nothing happened. Which is a good thing for the Raptors.

Peterson, tossed out of Sunday’s wild loss to the New Jersey Nets for slapping good friend Vince Carter in the face, got no extra punishment for his ejection, which is exactly what the Raptors expected.

“It’s like my parents told me,” Peterson said yesterday. “If you haven’t done anything wrong, you’re not in trouble.”

It’s not that Peterson didn’t do anything wrong, it’s that he was the only one caught for a harmless, mid-game transgression. After Carter gave him a little slap in the face, a rather perturbed Peterson responded and was caught red-handed by trigger-happy referee Steve Javie.

Once the whistle went and Peterson had been assessed his second technical foul — he got one moments earlier from Javie for vociferously complaining about a non-call — there was nothing anyone could do; his ejection was automatic.





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