{"id":286,"date":"2023-10-24T13:00:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/2023\/10\/13\/rockets-dillon-brooks-hit-25k-fine-nba\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T13:00:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T10:00:31","slug":"rockets-dillon-brooks-hit-25k-fine-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"Rockets&#8217; Dillon Brooks hit with $25K fine from NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Dillon Brooks&#8217; first game with the Houston Rockets proved costly.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA on Thursday fined Brooks $25,000 for &#8220;recklessly making contact&#8221; with Indiana Pacers center Daniel Theis in the groin area on Tuesday, leading to his ejection during the preseason game .<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Choice<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Brooks was ejected 4:33 into his first game with the Rockets, with whom he signed as a free agent this offseason, for flagrant foul 2 on Theis.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks said after the Rockets&#8217; victory that he did not intend to hit Theis and attributed the ejection to his reputation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tried to navigate on a screen,\u201d Brooks said, according to the Houston Chronicle.  &#8220;I maybe tapped him below the waist. But he got up. I don&#8217;t know. It&#8217;s weird that every time it happens to me, I get harassed. I guess that&#8217;s part of it reputation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For a flagrant 2 foul like that, you have to know if a person is doing it on purpose or intentionally. It really depends on who I am as a person. This referee, Mitch [Ervin] , it just shows that he just doesn&#8217;t know who I am as a person.  It simply deviates from what was said.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dillon Brooks&#8217; first game with the Houston Rockets proved costly. The NBA on Thursday fined Brooks $25,000 for &#8220;recklessly making contact&#8221; with Indiana Pacers center Daniel Theis in the groin area on Tuesday, leading to his ejection during the preseason game . Editor&#8217;s Choice Brooks was ejected 4:33 into his first game with the Rockets, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[286,284,283,197,285,162,282],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-25k","tag-brooks","tag-dillon","tag-fine","tag-hit","tag-nba","tag-rockets"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","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=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4079,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/4079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}