INDEPENDENCE, Ohio -- The Cleveland Cavaliers have identified the person who heckled San Antonio Spurs guard Patty Mills with racially insensitive taunts, according to a team spokesman, and he has been banned from Quicken Loans Arena indefinitely, with a review to come after a period of one year.
Late in the Spurs' 110-94 win in Cleveland on Sunday, Mills was heckled by a fan sitting close to the court while he was at the free throw line.
Mills took to Twitter late Sunday night to respond to a fan who posted a video clip of the incident, saying that he hoped to "enlighten this confused, hateful fan.