Bennie Adams

Adams (right) officiating the Chicago Bulls/Washington Wizards game on February 27, 2009.

Bennie Adams (born April 8, 1967 in New Orleans) is a professional basketball referee in the National Basketball Association.

In a regular season game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Los Angeles Lakers on April 12, 2011, Adams called a technical foul on Lakers guard Kobe Bryant. In frustration of the call, Bryant called Adams a derogatory gay term. On the following day, the NBA fined Bryant $100,000.^[1] The Lakers and Bryant later apologized for the use of the word.^[2]

References

↑ Plaschke, Bill (April 13, 2011). "Kobe Bryant needs to say more after slur". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on April 15, 2011.
↑ "Kobe Bryant sorry; Lakers make plan". ESPNLosAngeles.com. April 15, 2011. Archived from the original on April 15, 2011.

Current National Basketball Association referees

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#4 Sean Wright
#5 Kane Fitzgerald
#6 Tony Brown
#7 Lauren Holtkamp
#8 Marc Davis
#9 Derrick Stafford
#10 Ron Garretson
#11 Derrick Collins
#12 Violet Palmer
#13 Monty McCutchen
#14 Ed Malloy
#15 Zach Zarba
#16 David Guthrie
#17 Joe Crawford
#18 Matt Boland
#19 James Capers
#20 Leroy Richardson
#21 Dedric Taylor
#22 Bill Spooner
#23 Jason Phillips
#24 Mike Callahan
#25 Tony Brothers
#26 Pat Fraher
#27 Mitchell Ervin
#28 Kevin Scott
#29 Mark Lindsay
#30 John Goble
#31 Scott Wall
#32 Marat Kogut
#33 Sean Corbin
#34 Kevin Cutler
#35 Steve Anderson
#36 David Jones
#37 Eric Dalen
#38 Michael Smith
#39 Tyler Ford
#40 Leon Wood
#41 Ken Mauer
#42 Eric Lewis
#43 Dan Crawford
#44 Eli Roe
#45 Brian Forte
#46 Ben Taylor
#47 Bennie Adams
#48 Scott Foster
#49 Tom Washington
#50 Gediminas Petraitis
#52 Scott Twardoski
#55 Bill Kennedy
#56 Mark Ayotte
#58 Josh Tiven
#59 Gary Zielinski
#60 James Williams
#61 Courtney Kirkland
#63 Derek Richardson
#64 Justin Van Duyne
#66 Haywoode Workman
#70 Brent Barnaky
#71 Rodney Mott
#72 J.T. Orr
#73 Tre Maddox
#74 Curtis Blair
#77 Karl Lane

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