After collecting his 16th technical foul of the season, Kings star DeMarcus Cousins is facing an automatic one-game suspension.
Russell Westbrook and Charlie Villanueva were both ejected during a testy first half Wednesday that saw the Thunder PG pick up two technical fouls for separate skirmishes with Dallas' J.J. Barea.
Bulls swingman Jimmy Butler says he plans to ask Trail Blazers center Mason Plumlee "nicely" at first to pay his impending fine after Butler was called for a technical foul in Tuesday's game.
Rockets center Dwight Howard picked up his seventh technical of the postseason in Game 5 on Wednesday night and would have been suspended for Game 6 had it been necessary.
After review, the NBA elected not to suspend Houston Rockets center Dwight Howard for Game 5 of the Western Conference finals, the league announced Tuesday.
After being victimized by a replay review at the end of a Game 4 loss to the Cavaliers, Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau says he is in favor of some tweaks to the replay review system.
