The official stance of the Brooklyn Nets on the officiating in their Eastern Conference First Round series is simply this: Stop helping the Philadelphia 76ers.
General manager Sean Marks was fined $25,000 and will not attend Game 5 of the series Tuesday night in Philadelphia as he serves a one-game suspension handed down by the NBA after Marks entered the referees’ locker room after Brooklyn took a 112-108 loss in Game 4 Saturday.
There were several plays toward the end of the game that had the Nets’ ire up, even after a dust-up between the teams in the third quarter led to the ejections of Brooklyn’s Jared Dudley and Philadelphia’s Jimmy Butler.