Pacers' Bennedict Mathurin gets 1-game ban for bumping ref

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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' game against the