As we noted earlier today, there was a mild dustup between Rudy Gobert and Myles Turner in the Jazz‘s 111-100 loss to the Pacers last night. Both players were ejected, as were Joe Ingles and Donovan Mitchell.
The NBA has announced (Twitter link) that all four players have been fined for the incident, but avoided suspensions.
Gobert was dinged $35K for initiating the altercation, Turner $25K for escalating, Ingles $30K for pushing a referee, and Mitchell $20K for escalating via verbally taunting.
In a separate tweet, the league also announced that Fred VanVleet of the Raptors was fined $15K for making an obscene gesture at the end of the team’s win against the Sixers last night. VanVleet recreated an old Sam Cassell celebration, which has earned imitators fines in the past.
Are you serious??? Fining Van Vleet 15k for what Sam Cassell use to do after wins!! What about Fining LBJ for his posts?? How about 1/2 the guys that taunt..
Celebratory taunting is really fun and shouldn’t even warrant fines. Every notable celebration becomes pop culture. I remember for years when I went to play ball people would do the Steph Curry shimmy after a 3.
Throwing fines at my boy Freddy is only gonna make him sling more fire from deep! #clutch #champion