<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">It's a new no-no, one that Kobe Bryant will have to adjust to. Bryant was also called for a technical foul for slamming the ball off the bottom part of the basket standard after the Lakers were called for a foul midway through the fourth quarter. It is now an automatic technical foul to do such a thing. "I didn't even know," Bryant said. "The time they had the meeting, I was doing rehab. I think they had it in Bakersfield" before an exhibition. "I didn't even know. They surprised me with that one."</div> Source
haha. I wasn't able to watch the game, but I had orginally thought Kobe was up to his antics with the refs. Looks like I was wrong.