News from October 14. The NBA fined Larry Brown (Cha) $35,000 for verbally abusing the refs and failing to leave the court in a timely manner following his ejection in Monday's Cha-Atl game and fined him $25,000 for publicly criticizing the refs following the game. The NBA also fined Charlotte $60,000 for Brown's actions. The NBA fined Lionel Hollins (Mem) $25,000 for publicly criticizing the refs following Monday's Mem-Orl game. Golden State exercised their 10-11 options for Brandan Wright and Anthony Randolph. Flip Murray (Cha) is expected to miss the rest of preseason with a left shin injury as the area is showing early signs of a stress reaction. Preseason games Was 109, Cle 104 at Cle Andray Blatche (Was) had 16 points and 8 rebounds. Mike Miller (Was) had 24 points including 9-12 FG and 5-5 3-pointers and 5 rebounds. Randy Foye (Was) had 21 points and 5 assists. Jawad Williams (Cle) had 21 points including 4-6 3-pointers and 5 rebounds. Shaquille O'Neal (Cle) had 13 points including 6-8 FG and 6 rebounds. Bos 106, Tor 90 at Hartford, Connecticut Paul Pierce (Bos) had 17 points. Kevin Garnett (Bos) had 16 points and 6 rebounds. Glen Davis (Bos) had 13 points and 5 rebounds. Chris Bosh (Tor) had 21 points. Jarrett Jack (Tor) had 12 points and 5 assists. Atl 111, Mem 96 at Mem Al Horford (Atl) had 14 points including 6-10 FT and 5 rebounds. Maurice Evans (Atl) had 27 points including 8-10 FG and 3-4 3-pointers. Jeff Teague (Atl) had 13 points. Zach Randolph (Mem) had 18 points on 9-13 FG and 8 rebounds. Marc Gasol (Mem) had 13 points including 7-10 FT and 6 rebounds. Chi 99, Min 94 at Min Chris Richard (Chi) had 17 points and 13 rebounds. John Salmons (Chi) had 16 points. Joakim Noah (Chi) had 14 points on 7-8 FG and 7 rebounds. Kevin Love (Min) had 12 points including 4-11 FG and 13 rebounds including 5 offensive. Ramon Sessions (Min) had 13 points on 4-4 FG and 5-10 FT and 5 assists. OKC 96, Mia 91 at Tulsa, Oklahoma Kevin Durant (OKC) had 30 points on 10-16 FG and 9-10 FT and 6 rebounds. Jeff Green (OKC) had 25 points including 9-16 FG and 3-3 3-pointers. Russell Westbrook (OKC) had 12 points on 3-12 FG and 6-10 FT, 7 rebounds, 5 assists, and 3 steals. Michael Beasley (Mia) had 24 points including 9-13 FG and 7 turnovers. Mario Chalmers (Mia) had 13 points. OKC shot 30-42 FT and Mia shot 17-18 FT. LAC 93, SA 90 at SA Blake Griffin (LAC) had 23 points including 10-14 FG and 7 rebounds. DeAndre Jordan (LAC) had 15 points including 5-6 FG, 8 rebounds, and 6 turnovers. Al Thornton (LAC) had 18 points including 8-11 FG. Richard Jefferson (SA) had 15 points on 7-9 FG. DeJuan Blair (SA) had 11 points and 12 rebounds. Pho 110, Por 104 at Por Amare Stoudemire (Pho) had 15 points and 3 blocks. Steve Nash (Pho) had 23 points including 10-16 FG and 15 assists. Leandro Barbosa (Pho) had 25 points on 10-17 FG and 5-7 3-pointers. LaMarcus Aldridge (Por) had 20 points and 7 rebounds. Greg Oden (Por) had 17 points including 8-10 FG, 13 rebounds, and 3 blocks. Andre Miller (Por) had 25 points including 9-15 FG, 5 rebounds, and 6 assists. Pho shot 8-12 FT and Por shot 18-27 FT. Preseason Schedule for Thursday, October 15 (All times Central) Houston @ Toronto 6:00 pm New Orleans @ Miami 7:30 pm at Kansas City, Missouri Detroit @ Dallas 7:30 pm Portland @ Utah 8:00 pm Sacramento @ LA Lakers 9:00 pm at Las Vegas, Nevada ---- Patricia Bender pbender@eskimo.com For NBA stuff: http://www.eskimo.com/~pbender/index.html For Mavs stuff: http://www.eskimo.com/~pbender/mavs.html