{"id":17833,"date":"2022-04-15T00:32:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T19:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=213884"},"modified":"2022-04-15T00:33:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T19:03:25","slug":"timberwolves-patrick-beverley-fined-30k-over-post-game-comments-by-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/nba\/timberwolves-patrick-beverley-fined-30k-over-post-game-comments-by-nba\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves\u2019 Patrick Beverley fined $30k over post-game comments by NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Timberwolves\u2019 guard Patrick Beverley has been published with $30,000 by National Basketball Association (NBA) for his post-game comments announced by the league on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinnesota Timberwolves guard Patrick Beverley has been fined $30,000 for inappropriate statements during a media interview and on social media, including the egregious use of profanity, it was announced today by Byron Spruell, President, League Operations,\u201d read in a statement released officially by NBA Communications on April 14, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The official release further stated that the comments were made during a press conference after the game following Beverley\u2019s side\u2019s victory against the Los Angeles Clippers on April 12 at Target Center.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The following was released by the NBA. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/or12JGdCAe\">pic.twitter.com\/or12JGdCAe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/1514642268963102730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The point guard hugged his mother Lisa present at the court and said that he wanted the victory so bad. The player told he was so happy to beat the Clippers in the playoffs and that he was sure to be going into the playoffs. \u201cMost of you all, y\u2019all looked at me like I was crazy when I said that. I f****ing told y\u2019all,\u201d continued Beverley. He celebrated by standing in front of the Clippers\u2019 bench pointing toward his jersey screaming, \u201ctake they a** home,\u201d reported <em>ESPN.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, this week, Beverley along with Anthony Edwards stood on the scorer\u2019s table while beating the opponent Clippers. The 33-year-old Beverley even got emotional sitting on the bench following the franchise\u2019s advancing to seventh in the Western Conference table to enter the playoffs. They will play against Memphis Grizzlies in Game 1 on Saturday as their playoffs series starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official release further stated that the comments were made during a press conference after the game following Beverley\u2019s side\u2019s victory against the Los Angeles Clippers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":38577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1072,2886,3176,1796,1794],"class_list":["post-17833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-nba-play-in-games","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-patrick-beverley"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}