[外電] Martin foul on Nowitzki earns fine

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Source: http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4137556

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Martin foul on Nowitzki earns fine

Updated: May 4, 2009, 8:07 PM ET / By Marc Stein

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DENVER -- The NBA hit Denver Nuggets forward Kenyon Martin with a $25,000
fine Monday and upgraded his Game 1 foul on Dallas' Dirk Nowitzki to a
flagrant foul.

With 5:57 to play in the first quarter of Sunday's Game 1, Martin was called
for a technical foul after knocking Nowitzki to the ground with a hard bump
along the baseline after Nowitzki made his first six shots from the floor.

Nowitzki finished with 28 points and 10 rebounds but shot only 6-for-16 after
the hot start. Denver pulled away in the fourth quarter for a 109-95 triumph
to take a 1-0 series lead entering Tuesday night's Game 2 at the Pepsi
Center.

The flagrant foul is Martin's first of the postseason and, after the upgrade
from a technical to a flagrant foul penalty 1, puts one point in Martin's
playoff "account." Players who exceed three points receive an automatic
suspension for the next game after the three-point barrier is surpassed.

It's believed that Martin's history of hard fouls -- compared to Boston's
Rajon Rondo, who escaped punishment for high-profile fouls in the Celtics'
first-round series with Chicago -- led to a fine in addition to the
reclassification of the foul.

"I voiced our opinion [to the league] that we believe the fine was
excessive," Nuggets vice president of player personnel Rex Chapman said
Monday night. "With regard to other incidents that have taken place in these
playoffs and some of those actions not [resulting in] a fine, we feel that
fining K-Mart for this is a bit excessive and inconsistent.

"But we're going to accept it and move on. I think that Dirk was off balance
as he often is -- and he's one of the best actors in the game, too -- but
that's part of the game."

Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle complained after Game 1 about the free throw
disparity, which was 36-13 in Denver's favor. Carlisle specifically protested
the fact that Nowitzki earned only five trips to the line, one of them to
shoot the technical called on Martin.

"It's hard for me to believe," Carlisle said Sunday, "that we committed 29
fouls and they committed 19."

Nuggets coach George Karl, meanwhile, applauded Martin's foul Monday
afternoon before learning of the league's ruling. It was the first overt show
of Game 1 physicality after a slow start from the Nuggets, whose active hands
and aggression gradually wore the Mavs down, contributing to eight Dallas
turnovers in the decisive fourth quarter alone to break open an 82-80 game.

"It was good on film," Karl said of the foul after the Nuggets' brief
between-games practice, adding that he didn't see the play in real time
because he was preparing to make a substitution.

Karl also volunteered to send tape of the series opener to the league office
on the Mavs' behalf, insisting that "our philosophy on [Nowitzki] is not to
foul him."

"I think we did a hell of a job of not fouling him," Karl said. Although he
conceded that Nowitzki might have absorbed some off-the-ball contact, Karl
added: "But on his shots, I don't think he got fouled.''

Martin didn't speak with reporters in Denver on Monday but said Sunday after
the win: "It was a foul. I don't think it was tech worthy, but it happens.
You can't do nothing about it. It was just a foul."

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