Eddie Jordan fined for complaining about LeBron's travel

[Superman]

Was the League trying the downplay this? Everyone knows he traveled.

Jordan fined $25,000
Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- It turns out that Washington Wizards coach Eddie Jordan was indeed fined for griping about the officiating during the first round of the NBA playoffs.
The team confirmed Wednesday that Jordan was docked $25,000 by the league for comments he made following a 97-96 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 3. Neither the league nor the team announced the fine at the time it was levied, but it was revealed by commissioner David Stern earlier this week in an interview with The New York Times.
After Game 3, Jordan complained about the winning basket by LeBron James, who appeared to get away with traveling while driving to the basket.
"The truth is the truth," Jordan said the next day. "I want our players to understand that we did a lot of things to win the game, and because a travel wasn't called, you don't win the game."
Jordan added that Wizards star Gilbert Arenas "doesn't get the calls that LeBron gets."

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

So he was, in fact, fined for complaining about the officiating, right? Because the OP is a little misleading, and I wanted to be clear on that point...

 

[atxrocker]

shame on eddie for thinking lebron should be treated like the rest of the nba- who the hell does he think he is? and the last sentence there.. well that couldnt possibly be true

 

[loopymitch]

I don't know why Jordan even bothered, it's not going to change anything, he traveled against pistons also and they didn't call that either.

 

[vj9999]

So he was, in fact, fined for complaining about the officiating, right? Because the OP is a little misleading, and I wanted to be clear on that point...

The way I read it he was complaining about the travel specifically.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

I just wanted to clarify that Eddie Jordan was fined for criticizing the officiating, vis-à-vis complaining about the alleged non-call... as opposed to him being fined for having the temerity to "call-out" LeBron James, which the spin-doctor-esque nature of the thread title kind of implies.

 

[Superman]

I just wanted to clarify that Eddie Jordan was fined for criticizing the officiating, vis-à-vis complaining about the alleged non-call... as opposed to him being fined for having the temerity to "call-out" LeBron James, which the spin-doctor-esque nature of the thread title kind of implies.

I'm not of the "LeBron is over-rated, over-hyped, who the hell does he think he is!" crowd. I'm one of the people that comes to his defense quite often on this board.

That having been said, I have no problem admitting that he got away with an obvious travel on a game-winning play in the Playoffs. Had the call been made, the Wizards would have likely won the game. The comment Eddie Jordan made was about that particular play, and that's the comment he was fined for. He complained about LeBron traveling, and was fined.

What's ironic to me about it is that no one heard anything about Jordan being fined, and that's not usually the case. When a player, coach, or anyone else vocalizes his disdain for the officiating - whether in general or on a specific play - and is fined, the world knows about it. Here, three weeks later and after 11 more Cavaliers playoff games, it's confirmed that he was indeed fined, and quite heavily at that. It's as if the League was trying to sweep the thing under the rug in hopes that everyone would forget about it.

I don't care who calls LeBron out and who doesn't. It's funny to me that the League tried to downplay it.