The Boston Globe yesterday suspended columnist Bob Ryan for one month without pay, and members of the Nets expressed anger and disbelief - coach Byron Scott said he believed Ryan should be fired - over the journalist's televised comments that he'd "like to smack" Jason Kidd's wife, Joumana, for what he termed "exhibitionist" behavior.
Kidd, on the eve of tonight's Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semis against Boston, said he didn't want an apology from Ryan but said he felt the writer should apologize to Joumana, which the writer did in a statement yesterday.

Kidd said he did not want to see Ryan fired because "everybody makes mistakes."