Let me take a wild guess here, but is this John Harris a Pistons fan. I agree with everything you guys have said and from watching the videos I came to 3 conclusions.

1) The foul may have been a little hard, but nothing flagrant. Wallace just lost his cool.

2) Which ever official it was that step in between Wallace and Artest trying to difuse the problem did exactly the right thing. I don't know if I'd have the balls to get in between 2 guys that big that are that upset but he did what he needed to. If it wasn't for the fan throwing the glass at Artest I believe the officials would have diffused the situation and most likely Wallace would have been the only one ejected from the game.

3) One of the officials along with a couple of other people at or around the table did there best to restrain Artest and keep him from going into the stands. But who realistically believes that any referee is going to be able to stop at 6'8 230lb(not sure exactly how big Artest is) man that is very agitated from going anywhere.

I think this reporter is way off base and needs to look at the situation through unbiased glasses and then see what he thinks.

Sorry for the long rant but as much as I hate the NBA and what the officials let the players get away with they are still extremely good officials and seemed to handle the situation as well as can be expected.