MIAMI -- Kirk Hinrich undoubtedly made contact with official Bennie Adams in the fourth quarter of the Bulls loss to the Heat on Friday night. Hinrich, who already had one technical and was still fuming about several calls, was quickly T'd up for a second time and ejected. You would think a suspension would be automatically forthcoming, but when you talk to the Bulls, that doesn't seem to be what they're thinking.

"No, not at all,” Bulls coach Vinny Del Negro said. “I don't know why [he would]. It's because the referee stopped. That's the only reason he bumped him. I was right there. I was walking towards him. And then the referee was walking away and then the referee turned and walked towards Kirk and they bumped. Kirk wasn't going in to bump him or anything. There was some contact but it was because the referee had stopped right in front of him like that. That's all it was. It wasn't excessive."

"It's hard telling what the people are going to do,” added Bulls center Brad Miller. “The people can do what they want and we got to deal with it no matter what."

"When I saw that, the ref flinched,” said Bulls rookie Taj Gibson. “He flinched into Kirk. Both times. I don't know. The league's probably going to review it. That was just a tough situation because Kirk is a good guy. Kirk went up to him just to see what was going on. That's normally what he does when he gets in an outrage or a bad call. As far as I'm concerned, when he went up to him the ref just flinched because he thought somebody was going to tackle him. That's the way the game goes."