James Posey received a one game suspension, but the Bulls thought it was too light.

"All we can ask of the league is they look into situations like this in their totality," Paxson said in a statement to the three newspapers that cover the team full-time. "I'm convinced Stu Jackson deliberated and disciplined Posey appropriately.

"I'm always concerned about potential injury to any player on plays such as this and feel that the one-game suspension was the right response."

Other Bulls didn't agree with the ruling of Jackson, the league's vice president of basketball operations.

"I thought it was a little light," coach Scott Skiles said.

Added Deng: "I just don't understand the foul. Being the number of times it has happened with him, I don't understand it. But the suspension or whatever he gets, we don't play Miami until whenever. So I don't really care."

Miami Heat forward James Posey has been suspended for one game without pay for committing a Flagrant Foul, Penalty Two against Chicago?s Luol Deng, it was announced today by Stu Jackson, NBA Executive Vice President, Basketball Operations.

The incident occurred with 7:16 remaining in the fourth period of the Heat?s  109-103 loss to the Bulls on Wednesday at United Center. Posey will serve the suspension tonight when the Heat take on the New Jersey Nets at AmericanAirlines Arena.

Dwyane Wade is questionable for tonight's game against the visiting New Jersey Nets, and also could miss Saturday's game at Orlando after spraining his right wrist.

A second round of magnetic resonance imaging tests taken Thursday on Wade's wrist revealed no structural damage, but Wade said after the game his wrist felt like it was ''out of place.'' He said it had no strength and that he couldn't shoot.

The Miami Heat announced today that guard Dwyane Wade had an MRI on his right wrist to evaluate the injury caused during last night?s loss to the Chicago Bulls.

The MRI was negative. Wade has a sprained right wrist and is listed as day-to-day. He is a game-time decision for tomorrow night?s contest vs. the New Jersey Nets.

Dwyane Wade was injured in Chicago on Wednesday night and accusations that Kirk Hinrich was to blame came from Pat Riley and Wade.

?Hinrich grabbed his hand,? Riley said after the game. ?He does it all the time. Any time Dwyane comes off screens, they always either grab his shirt or they grab his hand. It?s a little bit of a tactic down below the body.

?The official can?t see it. He had Dwyane?s hand and he tried to pull his hand out of there, and I think something happened.?

Added Wade: ?Yes, Hinrich pulled on it. It?s the same wrist I?ve hurt before, so any time something happens like this, it?s painful. It felt like the wrist pulled out of place. I had no strength in it and couldn?t shoot.?

Hinrich actually stood in front of his locker and listened to someone play a tape of Riley?s quote.

?I can?t worry about Pat Riley. I just have to worry about myself,? Hinrich said. ?I wasn?t grabbing him, I know that. He might have hit his hand when we got tangled up. I know I wasn?t grabbing his arm.

?It?s unfortunate he got hurt. I wasn?t trying to hurt him. I was just out there trying to play. I was chasing him off a screen. There was contact. I don?t know if we got tangled up or whatever and he started grabbing his hand.?

Ben Gordon scored a career-high 40 points off the bench to lead the Bulls to a 109-103 victory Wednesday night over the short-handed Heat, who lost Dwyane Wade to a sprained wrist in the first quarter.

Heat guard Dwyane Wade left Wednesday night's game against the Bulls with a sprained right wrist and team officials said he would not return for precautionary reasons.

Wade suffered the injury with six minutes remaining in the first quarter. X-rays were negative, but he did not return for precautionary reasons.

Answering a question about Kobe Bryant's work ethic Sunday, Phil Jackson said the only great player he coached who didn't like to work was Shaquille O'Neal.

''I know [Heat coach] Pat [ Riley] got him working in Miami, but we had a hard time getting him to work,'' Jackson said.

O'Neal had a quick response for his former coach.

''How can Benedict Arnold be reliable in what he says?'' O'Neal said after the Heat's 101-85 victory over the Lakers on Monday.

O'Neal's turncoat statement was in reference of Jackson leaving Los Angeles the same season as O'Neal, only to return a year later and coach the Bryant-led Lakers.

Reporters questioned the work ethic of Kobe Bryant to Phil Jackson and the Lakers' head coach gave an unsolicited reply about one of his former players.

''The only person I ever had that hasn't been a worker the fortunate time I've been coaching is probably Shaq,'' Jackson said. ``He's the one guy that didn't like to work. I know Pat [Riley] got him working in Miami, but we had a hard time getting him to work. All the other players, Michael [Jordan], Scottie [Pippen], Dennis Rodman, all those guys that we had, Horace Grant, they were all hard workers in practice. And I've had some more players. I think Kobe has just picked up from that type of energy we like to demonstrate as a team. He wants to lead.''

Dwyane Wade scored 40 points to go with his 11 assists in Miami's 101-85 win over the Lakers.

Kobe Bryant, who was battling sickness, went 4-17 from the floor to finish with just 16 points.