Chris Andersen suspended one game for shoving Tyler Hansbrough

Chris “Birdman� Andersen will be grounded for one game after the NBA suspended the Heat power forward for his part in an altercation with Pacers power forward Tyler Hansbrough in Game 5 Thursday night in Miami.

In announcing the suspension, Stu Jackson, the NBA’s executive vice president of basketball operations, said that Andersen’s flagrant-one foul was elevated to a flagrant-two because he “resisted efforts to bring the altercation to an end.�

Andersen shoved Hansbrough to the court after the two had jockeyed for rebounding position with 9:02 left in the second quarter of Game 5, which the Heat won, 90-79, to take a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference finals series. After Hansbrough got up, Andersen bumped and pushed him instead of heading up court, even after a referee tried to intervene.

NBA Commissioner David Stern said earlier Friday in a taped interview with NBC Sports Radio that a further review might be necessary.

“I don’t know what he was doing,� Stern said of Andersen. “A serious review of his activities is called for.�

The NBA also announced Friday that Hansbrough’s technical foul had been rescinded.

Game 6 of the series will start at 5:30 p.m. PDT Saturday in Indianapolis.

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