{"id":351093,"date":"2025-11-02T20:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T20:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/351093\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T20:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T20:46:11","slug":"philadelphias-joel-embiid-is-fined-50000-for-a-lewd-gesture-during-a-game-against-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/351093\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia&#8217;s Joel Embiid is fined $50,000 for a lewd gesture during a game against Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 The NBA has fined Philadelphia center Joel Embiid $50,000 for making what the league determined to be a lewd gesture during a game against Boston on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The fine was announced Sunday by James Jones, the league&#8217;s executive vice president and head of basketball operations.<\/p>\n<p>Embiid scored while getting fouled with 7:08 remaining in the first quarter against the Celtics, then made a chopping gesture toward his groin. Embiid has now been fined at least four times in the past for making the gesture \u2014 $75,000 in December 2024 (a game in which he made multiple gestures), $35,000 in October 2023 and $25,000 in January 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia lost Friday&#8217;s game, 109-108.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 The NBA has fined Philadelphia center Joel Embiid $50,000 for making what the league determined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":351094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,3125,1260,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,10190],"class_list":{"0":"post-351093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa","20":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115482066138608041","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351093","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=351093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}