OK, let me give you the biased Houston view. The NBA just wants to sweep this under the rug. This was the equivalent of a "plea agreement" with neither side acknowledging what really happened. Van Gundy says it was a "league official," whatever that means. The NBA is taking the position it wasn't a referee, so the "integrity" of the game has not been besmirched. So, I guess we'll really never know if the NBA referee's web site said "Watch Yao Ming" or "watch for illegal screens from seven foot chinese centers."
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