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To respond to Johnny D - whether or not its a racial slur, a profanity, or just a flat-out insult - the fact still remains that if you're videotaped and it shows you having those kinds of interaction (regardless of what you said) to a fan, coach, etc etc - you're on the hook for it and there is nothing you can do to validate your actions. . .
Again, especially for officials of stature such as Hess and Valentine - and we've all been to camps, training, etc etc, where we've been told time and time again not to have those kinds of interactions (or perceived actions) with coaches, players, etc - why should it be any different for those individuals?
Now given, do coaches, players, and fans do things at times to where we need to address it? Absolutely. There's just "remedies" we have such as technical fouls, ejections, getting the assistance of site administration (those tools), that are available for us to use, that can handle such situations. . .
99% of the time, its the things that have absolutely nothing to do with actually officiating a basketball game that get us in trouble, and in Hess' case, that's what happened.
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