Sixers center Joel Embiid has received a $25K fine for making an obscene gesture on the court and using profane language during a TV interview, the NBA announced today in a press release. Embiid gave Kevin Huerter the middle finger following an end-of-game steal by the Hawks’ swingman (video link), then dropped an f-bomb during a live postgame interview (video link). According to the league’s announcement, the amount of Embiid’s fine “reflects his multiple prior violations of acceptable on-court decorum.”
Here are a few more notes from around the Atlantic:
- Kyrie Irving made some waves last month when he suggested the Nets had “glaring” needs and would need to add more pieces even after Kevin Durant‘s return. However, in a WFAN appearance this week, GM Sean Marks said he welcomes feedback from his star players. “I always take a select handful of player’s opinions in terms of how we can build this,” Marks said. “We’ve done this since day one. Because these guys know the players better than anyone else. …They’ll be brutally honest because they’ve got to go play with those guys. I think it’s important to weigh their opinions from time to time.”
- In a Q&A with Bryan Kalbrosky of HoopsHype, Raptors guard Terence Davis talked about his rookie season and his first impressions of living in Toronto, declaring that he’s “in love with the city.”
- The Raptors were searching for more scoring at this month’s trade deadline, sources tell Tim Bontemps of ESPN. Besides its 2020 first-round pick, Toronto didn’t really have any expendable trade assets of value, so the club ultimately ended up standing pat.
- Chris Forsberg of NBC Sports Boston examines a few potential – and oft-mentioned – targets on the buyout market for the Celtics, explaining why most of them are unlikely fits.
Embiid likes to showboat and talk trash when things are going his way, but as soon as it goes the other way, he responds like a child, even if that is simply an opposing player taking the ball away from him in the final seconds of a game. The guy has very thin skin. Like a child, he loves to dish it out but he can’t take it. I really could not care less about the Sixers in general, but Embiid needs to grow up. So far, I can’t see him ever seriously competing for a championship, yet he claims he is the best player on the planet. A claim which is, as we all know, laughable.
Spot on. Are you a Sixers staff member? Lol
I don’t think is laughable at all! Last year he played at MVP level, this year a bit down but still is easily a top 10 player in the league in a down year… Problem is that Philly has too many stars & good players, wish they could get rid of Harris & Holford, then they would have a chance at winning, as they say too many cooks spoil the broth & no team in the league has as many as Philly, hence their struggles this season.
Horford was a bad fit with the 6ers,but while Harris might be overpaid with the max salary,he fits into any lineup.
Give me a break. Embiid isn’t even close to being the best player in the league.
Sure, take a handful of opinions from select players — but why would Irving be one of those players? What has he possibly shown to understand what it takes to win or construct a team? Not all great players are good at the stuff off the court necessarily.
And why through the media?
Is there a “piece” Irving can even trust?
“The glaring need” is to get rid of Kyrie, they’re a better team without him.
Takeaway here: Joel is a real bad boy; Kyrie is a real bad guy.