![]() I just wanted to win because I felt they were at a disadvantage without a couple of their players.”Īdded Gentry: “I thought Jeff had shots that were very makable and he just didn’t get them in the basket. “I made a three- early and I was feeling real good. “I just couldn’t make any shots and I had wide-open looks,” said McInnis, who missed a crucial free throw with 11.4 seconds left in regulation. McInnis did not have one of his better games, missing 10 of 13 field-goal attempts. Jeff McInnis is a very proud guy and a very competitive guy.” I am not saying that we would have intentionally gone out there and try and hurt somebody, but if you have those two guys on the court. “I have to think that at some point if it wasn’t handled properly. “You have to give hats off to Horace Balmer of NBA security] and Stu Jackson because they did handle it the right way,” Gentry said. ![]() Oakley, who went on to shoot free throws after punching McInnis, told reporters he only wanted to talk basketball and that it was a personal matter. McInnis tried to retaliate twice before coaches and teammates were able to get him on the team bus. “Jeff is halfway up and punches the guy.” “It was something that happened so quickly, everybody was standing around but I don’t think everyone saw how it went down,” Gentry said. Reportedly, he hit Philadelphia 76er forward Tyrone Hill before a preseason game in North Carolina earlier this season because he was owed money.īecause one team was leaving the floor while the other was getting ready, no one saw Oakley coming. ![]() This is not the first time Oakley has done something like this. “We tried to do it the proper way by just calling the NBA office and letting them handle it.” “It was an incident that needed to be dealt with,” Clipper Coach Alvin Gentry said. ![]() NBA spokesman Brian McIntyre said the change was the result of an "administrative error.The Clippers were pleased the NBA took quick action against Oakley. * TRADE DEADLINE: The NBA said its trade deadline was being pushed back to Feb. Kersey was injured Sunday during the Bucks' 92-80 victory over the Pacers but did not realize the extent of the injury to his non-shooting hand until after Monday's practice. * IGNORING INJURY: Bucks F Jerome Kersey will try to play despite a broken bone in his left wrist. Oakley, who also was fined $15,000 by the league after Friday's incident, yesterday was quoted in the Toronto Sun as saying that McInnis had threatened his life. "Why would I threaten a 6-foot-9, 260-pound guy?" McInnis said. * DENIAL: Clippers G Jeff McInnis said he never threatened Raptors F Charles Oakley, who was suspended for three games by the NBA after he punched McInnis in the face last week. "Nellie's got to make some decisions, now. "As a family, we're all a little bit shocked," Donnie Nelson, Nelson's son and a Mavericks assistant coach, told the Dallas newspaper. It's something all men will have to deal with at some point, probably. "If it has to be a malignancy, it's good to have some sort of prostate cancer. "I'm not shaken up," Nelson told the Dallas Morning News before the Mavericks' game against the Rockets. Mavericks Coach Don Nelson announced last night that he has prostate cancer.
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