NBA referee Bill Spooner has filed suit against the Asssociated Press' Timberwolves reporter who tweeted that the ref promised points to head coach Kurt Rambis after making a bad call.
AP writer Jon Krawczynski posted a message on Twitter during the Wolves game against the Rockets on January 24.
The tweet said, "Ref Bill Spooner told Rambis he'd 'get it back' after a bad call. Then he made an even worse call on the Rockets. That's NBA officiating folks."
Spooner called the tweet a defamatory accusation of game fixing, and said that both the reporter and the AP have refused to retract it. His suit seeks more than $75,000 in damages, the tweet to be unpublished and a retraction of the statement.