{"id":487494,"date":"2026-03-10T20:12:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=487494"},"modified":"2026-03-10T20:12:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:12:47","slug":"nba-fines-luka-doncic-50000-for-gesture-toward-referee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-fines-luka-doncic-50000-for-gesture-toward-referee\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Fines Luka Doncic $50,000 for Gesture Toward Referee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA has announced that Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Doncic has been fined $50,000 after making \u201can inappropriate and unprofessional gesture\u201d toward a referee during the second half of the Lakers\u2019 110-97 win over the New York Knicks on Sunday at Crypto.com Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The relationship between Doncic and referees has historically been a complicated one, with the Slovenian phenom sometimes losing time and focus while protesting calls.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an attitude that head coach JJ Redick does not appreciate, and in recent days he has also criticized his player for complaining too much.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The incident on Sunday:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Luka Doncic fined $50K for hitting the referees with the money gesture after they missed a call \ud83d\ude2d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZQy6dNzgYM\">pic.twitter.com\/ZQy6dNzgYM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q2x8TbkNjB\">https:\/\/t.co\/q2x8TbkNjB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hater Report (@HaterReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HaterReport\/status\/2031426287026200987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The following has been released by the NBA. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BXWWe85La9\">pic.twitter.com\/BXWWe85La9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2031422469475573932?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2026<\/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>The relationship between Doncic and referees has historically been a complicated one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":487493,"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-487494","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\/2026\/03\/luka-doncic-multa.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487494","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487494"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=487494"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=487494"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=487494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}