Avery Johnson Reacts to Fine with Gibberish - FanHouse - AOL Sports Blog

Remember Avery Johnson's outburst against the Pacers last week? Of course you do: we wrote two posts about it, first a video of his charging Bennett Salvatore and then an update about how the Mavericks filed an official protest over the game. Well, consider this an update to the update: Johnson has been fined $25K for his reaction. When asked about the fine, Johnson just smiled and started to ramble about his upcoming book. No, for real. From the Mavericks' official site:

"In the book we have different plans like the 'S' plan where we talk about Standards, Systems," he said, smile still affixed. "You have the 'D' plan about Dedication, Desire and Decisions. We have the 'E' plan about Education and Environment and Excellence. We have all of these plans.

"I was thinking though this afternoon I should call my publisher and add another plan."

That would be the 'C' plan.

"In the 'C' plan I should have four chapters," he continued. "One chapter should be called Conflicting Concepts, the next chapter should be called Competing Commitments, the next chapter should be called Compelling Commercials and the fourth chapter probably should be called Confused Communication.

Confused Communication? You got that right. I have absolutely no clue what Johnson is getting at. I get the fact that he didn't want to complain about the punishment and risk being tagged with another fine, but that ... that was just weird. If his pre-game speeches to the Mavs are anything like this, I guess it's no wonder the Mavs lost to the Wizards last night.