NBA: Pacers’ Bennedict Mathurin gets 1-game ban for bumping ref

The NBA issued a one-game suspension to Indiana Pacers guard Bennedict Mathurin for bumping a referee in a Tuesday game. In a ruling announced Wednesday by the league’s head of basketball operations, Joe Dumars, the NBA cited Mathurin “for making inappropriate contact with and verbally abusing a game official.” With 3:58 left in the Pacers’