I just ran across this as I was cruising through NBA.com. It's Charlie V's NBA.com blog. He explains his side of the incident it goes as follows......
VAREJAO-ILGAUSKAS INCIDENT
Okay, now let’s get into some juicy stuff…. as you guys may all know by now, there was a little altercation that occurred in the Cavs game last week, which involved Anderson Varejao and Zydrunas Ilgauskas. Alright, here’s what happened: there was like 7-min remaining in the 4th quarter, we were down by like 3-pts. It was very intense game, especially with LeBron shooting the lights out, putting on a crazy show. I think Ilgauskas shot the ball, missed the shot, and Varejao got in good position to beat me to the rebound. I was mad at myself for getting out beat. I didn’t want him to go back up to make the shot, so I went to go grab his arm to prevent the put-back. I wasn’t even looking at him. I just reached out and went for the arm, but instead I grabbed his face accidently and swung my arm back. Now, I think Varejao over did it a little with the acting, but regardless it was a hard foul and I deserved the flagrant foul call. So I extend my apology to Varejao for the hard foul, I meant to grab your arm, not your face. Those who know me in the league know that I’m not that type of player. So that foul led Ilgauskas to react in a negative way and the guy just straight up went to my face. Obviously, when a game is that intense, and an unintentional hard foul occurs, your emotions can get the worst of you. Ilgauskas then got in my face, said some real nasty things, he shoved me slightly, here I’m thinking this dude is about to hit me because of the way he came at me, and I reacted at first by pushing him back, and then I did something that was very uncalled for out of heated reaction and defense, I grabbed him up. The whole thing could have been avoided, but one thing led to the other. It’s inexcusable and I was wrong. So I would like to publicly apologize to the Milwaukee & Cleveland fans for the wrong doings. Things like that are not part of the game and should be avoided. It’s important to learn how to control your emotions during intense game actions. I felt like because of my actions, which led to the ejection, cost us the game. I messed up. I need to learn from my mistakes, live and you learn. I feel awful about the whole thing, my bad guys.
He breaks down what happened and why he reacted the way he did and most importantly HE APOLOGIZED!!!!!! Yet I hear people bitching about Charlie and when they came to Cleveland after that he was booed. So I hope Ya'll read this and have a change of heart.
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