NEW YORK, USA: For entering the referee locker room after a game, Brooklyn Nets general manager Sean Marks, the NBA’s first New Zealand-born player, has been suspended one game without pay and fined $25,000.
Reports said Mark made the move Saturday, April 20, after the Nets’ 112-108 home playoff defeat to the Philadelphia 76ers at the Barclays Center.
The loss dropped the Nets behind the 76ers 3-1 in their best-of-seven opening-round playoff series.
Marks will serve his suspension when the Nets visit Philadelphia for game 5 of the matchup.
Marks, 43, was selected by the New York Knicks with the 44th overall pick in the 1998 NBA Draft and made his NBA debut for the Toronto Raptors later that year, report stated.