Joel Embiid was fined $50,000 for making a “lewd gesture” during the Philadelphia 76ers’ 109-108 loss to the Boston Celtics Friday night at Xfinity Mobile Arena.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The NBA said the incident<\/a> happened with 7:08 left in the first quarter of the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n Embiid responded quickly to the fine with a post on social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Yall better start fining the refs for doing the “Lewd”, “blocking foul” gesture since I’m not allowed to do it #NFL<\/a>,” the former NBA MVP wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n Embiid has been fined multiple times for the “lewd gesture,” which is his D-Generation X\/Triple H celebration.<\/p>\n Last season, he was fined $75,000 by the NBA<\/a> for making “obscene gestures” vs. the Celtics. In 2023, Embiid was fined $35,000<\/a> by the NBA for the same gesture.<\/p>\n Embiid and the Sixers are 4-1 so far in the 2025-26 season as the team continues to monitor his health with a minutes restriction.\u00a0<\/p>\n Embiid had 20 points in the loss to to the Celtics on Halloween night in 25 minutes. He’s out Sunday night’s game vs. the Brooklyn Nets.\u00a0<\/p>\n In four games, Embiid is averaging 17.3 points, 5.3 rebounds and 3.3 assists. He’s also shooting 38.9% on 3-pointers.\u00a0<\/p>\n Embiid will likely return to the lineup when the Sixers play the Chicago Bulls on the road Tuesday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joel Embiid was fined $50,000 for making a “lewd gesture” during the Philadelphia 76ers’ 109-108 loss to the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":351092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,36688,1448,2830,1311,3123,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-351091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-joel-embiid","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115482061936800189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}