Kobe Bryant fined $100,000 for gay slur
Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant was fined $100,000 by the NBA on Wednesday for a gay slur that commissioner David Stern called "offensive and inexcusable."
Bryant
apologized Wednesday and said that his comments "should not be taken
literally," but he also said that he will appeal the fine.
After receiving a technical foul during Tuesday's game against the San Antonio Spurs,
Bryant stormed to the bench, hit his seat before sitting down, threw a
towel and then yelled "Bennie!" toward referee Bennie Adams. Bryant then
leaned back and muttered a gay slur.
The episode was caught on
camera on TNT's national telecast, prompting announcer Steve Kerr to
say: "You might wanna take the cameras off of him right now, for the
children watching from home."
sources:http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/news/story?id=6344596