Nurse goes ballistic, gets penalized

Philadelphia 76ers head coach Nick Nurse gets fined $50,000 by the NBA for a verbal outburst against game officials. | SAM HODDE/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
NEW YORK (AFP) — Philadelphia 76ers head coach Nick Nurse and guard Kelly Oubre Jr. were each fined $50,000 by the National Basketball Association on Friday for heated complaints after a missed call in a frustrating loss.
The incidents came after the intense final seconds of Philadelphia's 108-107 home loss to the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday.
Oubre was driving to the basket when Paul George of the Clippers blocked his path and they made contact.
No foul was called and the final seconds ticked away, sparking the complaints and other actions by Nurse and Oubre that resulted in the punishments.
After the game, referee crew chief Kevin Scott said that a video review showed a foul should have been whistled on George and Oubre should have been sent to the free throw line with a chance to win the game with less than a second to play.
But that came too late to prevent Nurse and Oubre from heated actions after the missed call robbed the Sixers of their chance to win.
Nurse rushed onto the court to complain about not having the foul called, with assistant coaches restraining him from pressing his case.
Nurse was fined for "aggressively pursuing and verbally abusing game officials" while Oubre's fine was for "verbally abusing and directing an obscene gesture toward game officials."
