The league has suspended Hawks guard Dejounte Murray one game without pay for making inappropriate contact with a game official, the league’s communications department tweets. He will serve his suspension in Game 5 on Tuesday.
Murray also verbally abused the official at the conclusion of the Hawks’ 129-121 loss to the Celtics in Game 4 of their first-round playoff series on Sunday.
It’s possible Murray will miss the final game of Atlanta’s season, as the Hawks trailing 3-1 in the series and facing elimination as they head back to Boston.
Murray will lose $93,622 for the suspension, Bobby Marks of ESPN tweets. Bogdan Bogdanovic, AJ Griffin and Saddiq Bey could all see more action in his absence.
1 game looks about right. He didn’t make much of a “bump” but it looks like the Act was intentional. He leaned in, made the contact, and sent some kind of message or act of rebellion with the official. Not much contact was made but the intent to do so was there. This was no accident.
The pressure is too much for Murray it seems.
Pull it together dude.
Playing defence for Trae is a lot of pressure…
Too much for most players…
There are too many acts by spoiled babies in the NBA. No one ever misses a shot unless they are fouled. Cheap shot artists like Draymond Green or Dillon Brooks get the same one game suspension as Murray. Harden slaps a guy in the groin, and doesn’t get a suspension. I guess it’s because he pushes off his defender every time he drives, so it was just Harden. Grant Williams and Marcus Smart are always pushing the envelope on hard fouls. Embid and Giannis regularly run over people while driving to the basket. The NBA is almost unwatchable because of the rough play, and the number of missed calls.
The fact that Draymond and Brooks got off so lightly in comparison makes the whole disciplinary side of the NBA a joke…
The pubishment should match the crime…
There wasn’t a whole lot of contact but it doesn’t matter–you can’t try to intimidate an official. Suspension warranted.
How many games if he kissed him…
Hawks need to just jettison it all for draft picks. What they got isn’t working. I don’t think you can build a contender around Trae. He’s gotta be the supporting cast.
At best he’s a 6th man gunner who you can take off the court when you need defence…
Hawks shot themselves in the foot selecting him where they did…
Snyder has a first-rate BB mind, and equal communications skills. If he has a weakness it might be that he’s too willing to ignore nonsense by his players when it comes to matters apart from executing his well thought through game plans. IMO, it derailed a once skyrocketing college coaching career at Missouri. In UTH, he re-found his HC’ing legs, but he dealt with mature players. This ATL group might prove challenging there, and this is the kind of thing that points it out.