Rockets Obtain Barry From Hawks for Lue

The Atlanta Hawks traded shooting guard Jon Barry to the Houston Rockets on Thursday in exchange for point guard Tyronn Lue.

Lue averaged 6.0 points and 2.8 assists in 23 minutes a game this season for the Rockets.

Lue, 27, was on Laker championship teams in 2000 and 2001. After spending two seasons with the Washington Wizards, he signed with the Orlando Magic in 2003, averaging a career-high 10.5 points and 4.2 assists. He was traded to Houston in June.

Barry, in his 13th NBA season, also has played for Milwaukee, Golden State, the Lakers, Sacramento, Detroit and Denver.

“This was a move we felt we needed to make,” Rocket General Manager Carroll Dawson said. “We needed to get an established shooter and Jon has made a career out of making shots everywhere he has played.”

Barry, 33, had a hard time fitting in with the emergence of rookies Josh Smith, Josh Childress and Royal Ivey. Barry averaged 5.2 points and 1.8 assists in 17 minutes per game this season.

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Detroit Piston Coach Larry Brown was fined $15,000 by the NBA for verbal abuse of an official, a day after he had to be restrained during a postgame argument with referee Anthony Jordan.

Brown’s confrontation with Jordan occurred following the Pistons’ loss to the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday night in Auburn Hills, Mich.

“The guy wouldn’t talk to me during the game, and I can’t understand that -- I wasn’t being discourteous,” Brown said after the game. “Well, maybe I was at the end, and I suppose I’ll hear about that.”

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New York Knick guard Jamal Crawford is expected to miss three to six weeks because of an injured right big toe. X-rays were negative, but an MRI revealed that Crawford has turf toe.

Crawford, the Knicks’ second-leading scorer with a 19.3 average, was injured in the third quarter of Wednesday’s loss to Boston when Celtic guard Jiri Welsch stepped on his toe.