Although the play happened in front of the Clipper bench, Portland's Wesley Matthews appeared to break through a picket line of Blazers' assistant coaches and advance up the sideline outside his team's bench area. If so, he would also face an automatic one-game ban too.
"I don't know what you're talking about," said Matthews, who led the team with 26 points.
"I know I didn't get on the court. There was no intention for me to go out there, it was just a spur of the moment type thing, so hopefully I'm all right. David Stern, I didn't do anything. I'm just an intense player and I love my teammates."
Matthews may skate on a technicality, however, as the TV broadcasters I talked to said there may not be video evidence. Unlike playoff games, most TV broadcasts have just a main camera (which was focused on the fracas at the other side of the court) and one baseline camera (which also, I'm told, was on the baseline by the Clipper bench). Their limited view of the happenings along the Blazer sideline may inhibit definitive proof of his guilt.
