{"id":569121,"date":"2026-01-29T19:34:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/569121\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T19:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:34:22","slug":"nba-fines-lugentz-dort-jeremiah-fears-for-on-court-altercation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/569121\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA fines Lugentz Dort, Jeremiah Fears for on-court altercation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2028582\" class=\"wp-image-2028582 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/dort-fears-scuffle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2028582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luguentz Dort (left) and Jeremiah Fears got into an altercation during a Jan. 27 game at Paycom Center.<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Oklahoma City Thunder guard Luguentz Dort and New Orleans Pelicans guard Jeremiah Fears have each been fined $25,000 for their roles in an on-court altercation, it was announced today by James Jones, Executive Vice President, Head of Basketball Operations.<\/p>\n<p>At the conclusion of the Thunder\u2019s 104-95 victory over the Pelicans on Jan. 27 at Paycom Center, Dort wrapped up Fears after Fears secured a rebound. After time expired, Dort shoved Fears in the chest, and both players subsequently grabbed each other\u2019s jerseys in an aggressive manner.<\/p>\n<p>To view the incident, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/watch\/video\/nop-at-okc-01-28-26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luguentz Dort (left) and Jeremiah Fears got into an altercation during a Jan. 27 game at Paycom Center.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,983,77254,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-569121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-jeremiah-fears","10":"tag-lugentz-dort-fined","11":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115980066842076110","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}