Horry, Stackhouse Are Punished After Incident

San Antonio forward Robert Horry was suspended two games by the NBA on Friday for intentionally making contact with an official and for his actions during an altercation with Dallas guard Jerry Stackhouse.

Stackhouse was fined $30,000 by the league for criticizing the officials after the Spurs’ victory Thursday.

Horry and Stackhouse were each given personal and technical fouls for their altercation with 1:02 left in San Antonio’s 98-89 victory. Stackhouse’s foul was upgraded to a flagrant foul by the league.

Horry will sit out the Spurs’ home game today against Portland and their road game Monday night against the Lakers.

Replays of the incident showed Horry attempting to bite Stackhouse’s arm, but Horry’s teeth never made contact with Stackhouse’s skin.

“I went for a rebound, felt a stiff-arm, and it was Horry,” Stackhouse said before Friday’s game against Charlotte. “It was a basketball play, a heat-of-the-moment thing. I didn’t see him try to bite me.”

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New York Knick Coach Larry Brown acknowledged he was “a little nervous” when he was forced to go to a Memphis, Tenn., hospital because of chest pains earlier this week, but said later there was no reason for concern.

“They said I was OK,” Brown said after the team’s morning shoot-around. “I went to practice. I coached the game. I’m fine. It’s a non-issue.”

Brown said he spent most of the night at the hospital but was back on the bench for Wednesday’s loss to the Grizzlies. He joked that the pain was caused by the “indigestion of losing.”

Brown, 65, said he began to feel ill during the flight to Memphis after a loss at San Antonio on Monday night and Dr. Lisa Callahan, New York’s director of player care, told him during Tuesday’s practice that he should get checked out.

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Guard Anthony Carter of the Minnesota Timberwolves was arrested early Friday on suspicion of drunk driving and was being held in the Hennepin County (Minn.) jail.

Carter was stopped near downtown Minneapolis by officers who noticed him driving erratically about 2:17 a.m., police spokesman Ron Reier said.

Carter failed field sobriety tests and eventually tested at 0.17 blood alcohol content, above Minnesota’s 0.08 limit for driving, Reier said. Because Carter was previously charged with drunk driving in California in the last 10 years, he faces a gross misdemeanor charge, Reier said.

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As expected, Tim Thomas signed with the Phoenix Suns, two days after he was waived by the Chicago Bulls.

The 6-foot-10 forward cleared waivers and was signed for the rest of the season. He was in uniform Friday night for the Suns’ game against Orlando.