Duncan Tossed by Joey Crawford

In a cross-state rivalry game with playoff seeding implications but with plenty of potential playoff match-up preview buzz, referee Joey Crawford called a technical foul on Spurs center Tim Duncan as he sat on the bench laughing about a previous call Crawford had just made. Crawford, apparently feeling that Duncan had showed him up, teed him and up and then in very animated fashion twice jerked his finger toward the exit, making it clear to all that he knew it was technical foul number two for the game resulting in an automatic ejection. The first technical foul had ocurred just 1 minute earlier while Duncan was in the game. With Duncan out of the game, the Spurs blew a 6 point lead and eventually lost the game.