The NBA has fined Hawks point guard Trae Young $15K for making contact with a referee, the league announced (via Twitter).
The league also provided a video link of the incident, which occurred during the second quarter of Atlanta’s game Thursday night, a 122-111 loss to the Wizards.
Young appeared frustrated after not receiving a foul call after a slight bump from Raul Neto and a missed shot attempt, which was tipped in by John Collins immediately afterwards. Young then made contact with the referee closest to the play and received a technical foul.
Young made comments after the game that showed his frustration with the incident and the new rule changes to limit “non-basketball moves.”
Non Basketball Moves ……. what’s so hard about that. Get some real game. And stop the foolishness.
Him and Harden have to change their whole game. Nonsense.
$15k for a player making $30 plus million. Bahahaha
Why do they have to relearn their whole game? They just have to know not to deliberately bump into people, it’s not like they made their names as fowl shooters, no they have to play more b-ball and less pickup.
Two weeks they’ll be dripping again.
unlike jeff foiles.
Yup ……. So why they crying. Boo Hoo
The new rule is non-sense, just go back to normal it ain’t working!
It is working. It’s doing what it was meant to do – stop a handful of guys drawing ridiculous fouls when they’re the ones creating the issue.
El Don, this is back to normal.
It’s working perfectly. That Trae, Harden and you all want to pout about it demonstrates how well it’s working. It’s not just my lying eyes.
This seems outside his persona, but the video shows him being a chump for sure.
He’s a chump
This incident just shows exactly how selfish a player Trae Young actually is. His team got 2 points on the same trip. He missed the shot so the MAXIMUM he could have gotten on the trip is the same 2 points. And his team could have gotten less if he didn’t hit both free throws. There is no reason to be mad over it. Take one for the team, quit trying to prove how tough you are, and move on to the next play.
Will Trae (Like Harden last night) get handed a bunch of FTAs next game after his complaining? Stay tuned…