The league has docked Hawks All-Star point guard Trae Young $20K as a result of “directing inappropriate language” toward a referee over a contested foul no-call after a 118-117 loss to the Mavericks yesterday, per an official NBA announcement.
The league indicated in its press release that the play in question, wherein Mavericks center Willie Cauley-Stein made contact with Young while taking a step on a screen, was accurately ruled on the floor during game action as a moment of incidental contact, and thus not a foul on Cauley-Stein.
The 6’1″ third-year lead guard out of Oklahoma is averaging 26.6 PPG, 9.5 APG, and 4.2 RPG across 22 games this season. He holds a slash line of .419/.369/.889.
With the loss, the Hawks have slid to 11-13 for the 2020/21 season. Atlanta, now the No. 8 seed in the packed East, is merely 2.5 games removed from the third-seeded Nets and only 2.5 games better than the current No. 13 seed, the Magic.
That’s one expensive epithet. Perhaps he should learn to say shoot and fudge.
Young needs to grow up
Lol listen to this screen saver gangster
Dawg shut up
WCS raised the forearm and bloodied his nose. I’d have been upset too but you can’t go ham like he did.
IMO
The refs call more than 90% of serious Incidental contact fouls
Trae throws himself into opposing players all game… He thinks he’s Steph, but he’s truly awaken & sadly mistaken…
Oh boo-f#*&!ng-hoo.
Give the man his money back.
That’s just so pointless!
Ice Trae was right, refs were wrong… end of the day is the heat of the moment… Ice Trae was justified to say whatever he said, refs & league as usual wrong… but hey thankfully he cares more about winning that those 20K!
Only the refs weren’t wrong. He didn’t get hit that hard at all and it was obviously incidental. People complain about players flopping and being weak as compared to previous eras, but want THAT call to decide the outcome?! Give me a break…