Rudy Tomjanovich was moved to tears by his latest award, only because he had no idea it was coming or that he was even under consideration. The Basketball Hall of Fame inductee and two-time NBA champion coach with the Houston Rockets was announced Sunday as this year’s recipient of the Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by the National Basketball …
The NBA handed Ja Morant a 25-game suspension, the league announced Friday. GO DEEPER Fifteen years after ‘The Malice at the Palace’: How the NBA bounced back from bedlam In 2003, Artest was suspended two times, once for three games for destroying a TV camera in New York, and then later for four games for a confrontation with then-Heat coach …
Kermit Washington of the Los Angeles Lakers leveled Rudy Tomjanovich of the Houston Rockets during a scuffle. The Associated Press is republishing verbatim the story from Dec. 9, 1977: ___ By ALEX SACHERE The Associated Press Houston Rockets Coach Tom Nissalke, infuriated by “the most malicious thing I’ve ever seen in basketball,” called for the suspension of Los Angeles forward …
