{"id":475458,"date":"2025-12-22T15:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=475458"},"modified":"2025-12-22T15:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:34:09","slug":"timberwolves-chris-finch-fined-35k-after-spat-with-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/timberwolves-chris-finch-fined-35k-after-spat-with-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves\u2019 Chris Finch fined $35K after spat with officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1699\" data-end=\"2029\">The NBA fined <strong data-start=\"1713\" data-end=\"1728\">Chris Finch<\/strong> <strong data-start=\"1729\" data-end=\"1740\">$35,000<\/strong> on Sunday for \u201cdirecting inappropriate language toward game officials\u201d and \u201cfailing to leave the court in a timely manner\u201d following his ejection.<br data-start=\"1887\" data-end=\"1890\" \/>The discipline stems from Friday\u2019s <strong data-start=\"1925\" data-end=\"1936\">112-107<\/strong> win by the <strong data-start=\"1948\" data-end=\"1974\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/strong> over the defending champion <strong data-start=\"2003\" data-end=\"2028\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2031\" data-end=\"2347\">Finch was ejected in the first quarter after losing his temper on a play in which <strong data-start=\"2113\" data-end=\"2130\">Julius Randle<\/strong> attacked the rim against <strong data-start=\"2156\" data-end=\"2178\">Isaiah Hartenstein<\/strong> and missed without drawing a whistle.<br data-start=\"2216\" data-end=\"2219\" \/>He chased referee <strong data-start=\"2237\" data-end=\"2252\">John Butler<\/strong>, received a first technical, then picked up a second during the break to trigger the ejection.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2349\" data-end=\"2652\">Finch had to be restrained by assistants and team security before leaving the floor to a loud ovation with <strong data-start=\"2456\" data-end=\"2464\">6:19<\/strong> left in the first quarter.<br data-start=\"2491\" data-end=\"2494\" \/>After the game, <strong data-start=\"2510\" data-end=\"2529\">Anthony Edwards<\/strong> and assistant <strong data-start=\"2544\" data-end=\"2558\">Micah Nori<\/strong> credited Finch\u2019s fire for helping the Wolves hand the Thunder their third loss of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA fined Minnesota Timberwolves coach Chris Finch $35,000 for inappropriate language<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371773,"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":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-475458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Minnesota-Timberwolves.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475458","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=475458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475458"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=475458"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=475458"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=475458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}