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Tigers Fined by NBL
The National Basketball League (NBL) has fined the Melbourne Tigers club $15,000 and suspended court announcer Wayne Peterson for inappropriate behaviour towards game officials.
The club has been fined $15,000 for McPeake's actions in approaching the scorebench and abusing the game officials as well as making an obscene gesture and abusing the referees in the tunnel after the game.
Peterson has been sanctioned for verbally abusing the match referees whilst acting in the capacity of a scorebench official. He has been suspended for the Tigers’ next two home games and the club has been issued a $500 fine which has been suspended for the rest of the season, pending good behaviour by Peterson.
Melbourne Tigers’ centre Chris Anstey has also received a reprimand from the NBL for inappropriate language towards the referees in the tunnel after the match.
"The actions of these members of the Melbourne Tigers’ organisation quite clearly overstepped the mark and were unacceptable," said Harmison. “We need to send a clear message that we will not tolerate abuse of officials.
“As a league we are very conscious of our obligations as a family sport and it is therefore incumbent upon our teams to display good sportsmanship at all times. We will not accept team officials, players or members of our scorebench crews using obscene language to our referees or making obscene gestures.”