Paul Pierce

Paul Pierce: this article related Paul Pierce in this page. Paul Pierce was ejected from this night game later earning his 2nd technical with 7 minutes continuing in the 4th quarter. Later the game, Crew chief Dan Crawford explained the cause for giving Pierce the technical foul. It is what we call a verbal taunt," said Crawford. "He directed profanity toward Wade. And in the rulebook, i.e. a verbal taunt and it just so happened to be Pierce's 2nd technical. On Wade's technical foul, Crawford said, "He really walked towards Pierce and that's why Wade accepted his, walk toward Pierce, and then Pierce's response thereto. Pierce left the arena without addressing to newsmen tonight. Wade briefly touched on the spat between him and Pierce in the postgame press group discussion. I was just straining to get through the screen," said Wade. "I ran through it. He “Pierce” followed me. Paul had a few words for me and the referee thought it was a little too much. Crawford said the league will probably look back the technical foul James Jones accepted before in the 4th quarter later he and the other officials viewed the tape. He did not do as much as we thought," Crawford said of Jones. "We thought he got in and became aggressive or initiated. But later looking the video, that's something we'll have to see at once again. Paul Pierce