{"id":23142,"date":"2024-01-31T22:17:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T19:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/23142\/anthony-edwards-fined-40000-for\/"},"modified":"2024-01-31T22:17:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T19:17:17","slug":"anthony-edwards-fined-40000-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=23142","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Edwards fined $40,000 for multiple jabs at referees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Edwards fined $40,000 for multiple jabs at referees\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards was fined $40,000 by the NBA after criticizing the official on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards was unhappy with what he thought were multiple non-calls during a 107-101 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder, calling the referees &#8220;bad&#8221; and &#8220;terrible&#8221; for not awarding him multiple trips on the free throw line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cat had its tongue tonight, so it\u2019s all good,\u201d Edwards said of the refs.  \u201cIt\u2019s not fair, but it\u2019s okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Edwards, who added that he felt like the Timberwolves were playing &#8220;8-on-5,&#8221; said he doesn&#39;t think he gets the same respect from the officials as other stars in the league.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#39;s Choice<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>In announcing the fine Wednesday, the NBA said Edwards was sanctioned for &#8220;publicly and repeatedly criticizing referees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Edwards clearly expected to pay for his comments, saying in his postgame on-court interview on the Timberwolves telecast: &#8220;I&#39;m going to take the fine, because the refs didn&#39;t call us that evening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Information from ESPN&#39;s Tim MacMahon was used in this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Edwards fined $40,000 for multiple jabs at referees\u060c Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards was fined $40,000 by the NBA after criticizing the official on Monday. Edwards was unhappy with what he thought were multiple non-calls during a 107-101 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder, calling the referees &#8220;bad&#8221; and &#8220;terrible&#8221; for not awarding him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2176,2354,1229,10045,2732,5289],"class_list":["post-23142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-anthony","tag-edwards","tag-fined","tag-jabs","tag-multiple","tag-referees"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23144,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23142\/revisions\/23144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}