OAKLAND, Calif. — NBA commissioner Adam Silver called the one-year ban and $500,000 fine for a Golden State part-owner “appropriate.” Mark Stevens was…
OAKLAND, Calif. — NBA commissioner Adam Silver called the one-year ban and $500,000 fine for a Golden State part-owner “appropriate.”
Mark Stevens was at the center of a play in which he shoved Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry and uttered profanities at him during the fourth quarter of Toronto’s Game 3 victory on Wednesday.
“There’s not some rulebook I can look to here for what precisely to do,” Silver told a small group of reporters Thursday afternoon at an NBA Cares event where a youth community center was refurbished. “I try to balance all the different factors here, and once again, I think this was a fair outcome and I will say we did take into account how contrite Mr. Stevens was.”
Silver said the league and the Warriors began investigating the incident “immediately after it happened at the game.”
Stevens addressed the incident in a statement Thursday night.
