LOS ANGELES \u2014 Luka Don\u010di\u0107 has been fined $50,000 for directing an “inappropriate and unprofessional gesture” toward a game official, the NBA announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Don\u010di\u0107 was seen making a \u201cmoney\u201d hand gesture towards officials in the Lakers’ 110-97 win over the Knicks on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was the top of the third quarter and Knicks rookie Frenchman Mohamed Diawara was driving down the lane in transition after Don\u010di\u0107 lost possession of the ball.<\/p>\n
Doncic was in a ready position just outside the restricted area for a charging foul to be called. The officials held their tongue as Diawara scooped it to Josh Hart for the easy lay-in.<\/p>\n
As Don\u010di\u0107 laid on the floor, anticipating a call that never came, he made the “money” gesture.<\/p>\n
This isn’t the first time Don\u010di\u0107 has been fined for making the same gesture.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was fined $35,000 two years ago for it when he was with the Mavericks after a no-call foul on the final possession in their loss to the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n
The fine was issued by James Jones, the league\u2019s executive vice president and head of basketball operations.<\/p>\n
The Lakers sit fifth in the Western Conference at 39-25, with their eyes set on Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Luka Don\u010di\u0107 has been fined $50,000 for directing an “inappropriate and unprofessional gesture” toward a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3790],"tags":[7,4034,1698,300,4044,251,150,4033,4043,368,6,67,4536],"class_list":{"0":"post-651638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-lakers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-lakers","11":"tag-lakers","12":"tag-lalakers","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-losangeleslakers","17":"tag-luka-doncic","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-tst-los-angeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116207121701840467","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651638","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=651638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}