I just read that Doc Rivers was fined $25,000 for "criticizing" one of the refs after Tuesday's loss to teh Bulls. I was watching the game at the bar, so I didn't really have a good idea of why he got ejected, but Doc claims that he didn't really say anything and the ref was basically staring at him, until Doc finally said "what?" which was when he threw him out.
So this whole thing confuses me about the nba and all of professional sports. How come once any player or coach states their opinion about the way a game got called, the immediately get fined up the butt?
Side note- the ref got fined too, which makes it that much more suspicious to me. Why would they fine the ref for unfairly giving a technical to Doc, yet fine Doc because he was speaking what they must have seen as the truth?