News from October 19. New Jersey released John Best and Grady Livingston. The NBA fined Chris Webber (Was) $7,500 and suspended him for the first game of the regular season and fined Luc Longley $7,500 and suspended him for the first game of the regular season for fighting in October 17's Was-Chi game. Rasheed Wallace was also fined $5,000 for throwing the ball at Longley during the fight. The NBA fined Oliver Miller (Tor) $5,000 and suspended him for the first game of the regular season for leaving the bench to confront Shawn Bradley during October 14's Tor-Phi game. Toronto was fined a matching $5,000 for Miller's action. Pre-season games Cha 104, Den 94 - at Cha Det 103, Sac 97 - at Det Orl 110, Mil 106 - at Orl Uta 89, NY 86 - at Uta Atl 106, Tor 105 OT - at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan [Sorry, this was one of the files hit by the bug that went through dfw.net and I was not able to recover the full stats for these games.]