{"id":30325,"date":"2024-03-11T12:55:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T09:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/30325\/timberwolves-rudy-gobert-fined-100k\/"},"modified":"2024-03-11T12:55:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T09:55:33","slug":"timberwolves-rudy-gobert-fined-100k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=30325","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves&#8217; Rudy Gobert fined $100K for money gesture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Timberwolves&#8217; Rudy Gobert fined $100K for money gesture\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The NBA fined Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert $100,000 on Sunday for making a financial gesture toward an official and criticizing officiating Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>NBA Executive Vice President and Chief Basketball Operations Officer Joe Dumars announced that &#8220;the fine takes into account Gobert&#39;s past instances of conduct detrimental to the NBA regarding public criticism of referees &#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Gobert was cautioned for a technical foul in the final seconds of regulation Friday night during the Timberwolves&#39; 113-104 overtime loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers when he rubbed his fingers repeatedly, implying that the Referee Scott Foster could be to blame.<\/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>After being whistled for his sixth foul and disqualified, Gobert remained on the ground and made the gesture as Foster walked toward the scorer&#39;s table.  Foster did not see Gobert, but official Natalie Sago did and issued the technical report.<\/p>\n<p>His technique allowed the Cavaliers to equalize.<\/p>\n<p>After the match, Gobert, who has a reputation for being outspoken, did not deny his actions and went further to claim that sports betting could have a major impact on the outcome of matches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to bite the bullet again,\u201d Gobert said Friday night.  &#8220;I&#39;ll be the bad guy. I&#39;ll take the fine, but I think it hurts our game. I know the betting and everything else is getting bigger and bigger, but that shouldn&#39;t be the case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota assistant Micah Nori, who replaced Timberwolves coach Chris Finch when he fell ill just before the tipoff, criticized Gobert&#39;s behavior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA technical foul with 27 seconds left, to be honest, is unacceptable,\u201d Nori said.  &#8220;That&#39;s who Rudy is, but you have to be smart. He created an automatic visual. He was visibly frustrated &#8211; both teams were &#8211; but we have to be smarter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gobert, who finished with 17 rebounds in 37 minutes, acknowledged he had to keep his cool.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/reaction\/\"   title=\"reaction\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">reaction<\/a>, which I think was the truth, but it wasn&#39;t the time to react that way,\u201d the 7-foot-1 center said.  &#8220;It cost my team the game. It was an immature reaction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is the fourth time Gobert has been fined for publicly criticizing public officials.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timberwolves&#8217; Rudy Gobert fined $100K for money gesture\u060c The NBA fined Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert $100,000 on Sunday for making a financial gesture toward an official and criticizing officiating Friday night. NBA Executive Vice President and Chief Basketball Operations Officer Joe Dumars announced that &#8220;the fine takes into account Gobert&#39;s past instances of conduct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10907,1229,3184,6514,699,6513,5541],"class_list":["post-30325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-100k","tag-fined","tag-gesture","tag-gobert","tag-money","tag-rudy","tag-timberwolves"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30325","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=30325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30327,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30325\/revisions\/30327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}