{"id":475078,"date":"2025-12-20T08:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=475078"},"modified":"2025-12-20T08:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:43:12","slug":"timberwolves-coach-chris-finch-ejected-in-the-first-quarter-after-officiating-complaints-vs-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/timberwolves-coach-chris-finch-ejected-in-the-first-quarter-after-officiating-complaints-vs-thunder\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves coach Chris Finch ejected in the first quarter after officiating complaints vs Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1464\" data-end=\"1737\">Chris Finch was ejected midway through the first quarter against the <strong data-start=\"1533\" data-end=\"1558\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/strong> for vehemently complaining about officiating. With the crowd energized at <strong data-start=\"1635\" data-end=\"1652\">Target Center<\/strong>, Finch\u2019s frustration boiled over after a series of non-calls he believed were fouls.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1739\" data-end=\"1969\">The flashpoint came when <strong data-start=\"1764\" data-end=\"1781\">Julius Randle<\/strong> powered to the rim against <strong data-start=\"1809\" data-end=\"1831\">Isaiah Hartenstein<\/strong> and missed without getting a whistle.<br data-start=\"1869\" data-end=\"1872\" \/>Finch chased referee <strong data-start=\"1893\" data-end=\"1908\">John Butler<\/strong> up the floor, arguing his case and drawing a technical foul.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1971\" data-end=\"2229\">During the stoppage, Finch went at the crew again and was assessed a second technical, triggering the automatic ejection.<br data-start=\"2092\" data-end=\"2095\" \/>He had to be restrained by assistants and security before leaving the court to a loud ovation with <strong data-start=\"2194\" data-end=\"2202\">6:19<\/strong> left in the first quarter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cYOU\u2019RE A PIECE OF SH*T!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chris Finch to the ref \ud83d\ude2d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NeRoYX7SDJ\">pic.twitter.com\/NeRoYX7SDJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BrickCenter (@BrickCenter_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrickCenter_\/status\/2002212523777405311?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Finch was ejected midway through the first quarter against the Oklahoma City Thunder for vehemently complaining about officiating<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":475077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-475078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-20-alle-08.39.52.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475078"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=475078"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=475078"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=475078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}