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Isiah Thomas avoided a suspension by the NBA, even though the league said yesterday there was contact between the Knicks coach and the official who threw him out of a game.
The league ruled the contact wasn't initiated by Thomas, but accidentally created by official Eric Lewis while he was ejecting Thomas from Wednesday night's game against the Rockets in New York.
NBA spokesman Tim Frank called it "inadvertent contact from the official in signaling the technical foul."
Thomas was tossed with 11 minutes 19 seconds remaining in the Knicks' 101-92 loss after he came onto the floor to yell at Lewis, claiming Rockets C Yao Ming should have been called for a three-second violation.
¿ SITTING OUT: G Steve Nash was out with the flu and F Shawn Marion missed the Suns' game in Utah last night because of a bruised elbow.
Nash, who was too sick to finish the Suns' home game against the Pacers the night before, didn't travel with the team for the one-game trip. Marion was hurt in Wednesday's win.
The Jazz played without F Matt Harpring, who was not with the team because his wife was in labor, and F Andrei Kirilenko, who missed his third straight game because of inflammation in his lower back.
-- From News Services
