Utah forward Andrei Kirilenko plans to appeal the technical foul he received in the third quarter of Tuesday night's loss to San Antonio, the Salt Lake Tribune is reporting.

"It wasn't right," said Kirilenko, who had never before been charged with a technical foul in his four-year NBA career. "Some games I probably [deserve] a technical for talking to the ref. . . . That one was just crap."

Kirilenko maintains he never said a word to referee Joe Forte, and wasn't complaining about a call. He was simply reacting to having his arm grabbed while he tried to scoop up a rebound.