Glenn, who was suspended by the team before the playoffs, was charged with assault and battery against Kimberly Combs, the mother of his son, at Glenn's Walpole, Mass., home last May 15.
With Karl Malone and John Stockton back at their clinical, cool-headed best, the Utah Jazz put an end to Seattle's emotionally charged playoff run.
Weber escaped with a mere $2,500 fine, and that seemed to send a message, intentional or not, that the league would be tolerant in the highly charged playoff atmosphere.
Script: play horrendously early in the season, make desperate charge for playoff berth, get bounced from playoffs, give Norv Turner a contract extension for making playoffs.
Kevin Streelman, the overnight leader and local favorite, came within inches of making the playoff with a late charge.
After the late-season charge and playoff run, hope has given way to expectation for Los Angeles, which began the new season with a 4-1 victory against the San Diego Padres before a Petco Park-record 45,496.
Just a week after Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh accused the team of engaging in "trickery" in an AFC divisional playoff game comes the charge that New England illegally deflated the football during their blowout win over the Indianapolis Colts in Sunday's AFC Championship game.
