{"id":380278,"date":"2025-11-15T08:09:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/380278\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T08:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:09:20","slug":"suns-forward-dillon-brooks-fined-by-nba-for-lewd-gesture-vs-pacers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/380278\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns forward Dillon Brooks fined by NBA for &#8216;lewd gesture&#8217; vs Pacers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/87268720007-1-rs-2348-copy.JPG\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Suns&#8217; Dillon Brooks shares the last time he lacked confidence<\/p>\n<p>Dillon Brooks scored a season-high 32 points in just 28 minutes in the Phoenix Suns&#8217; win against the Indiana Pacers on Nov. 13, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Dillon Brooks saw it coming.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA fined the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/phoenix-suns\/21\/\" data-autotag=\"5b1d8499-f4c6-4857-a8e9-6d2e8a35bac3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Phoenix Suns<\/a>&#8216; forward $25,000 for \u201cmaking a lewd gesture\u201d during the first half of Thursday\u2019s 133-98 victory Nov. 13 over the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/indiana-pacers\/11\/\" data-autotag=\"9c580fdc-190c-4799-8818-97e0f670368a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> at Mortgage Matchup Center.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about it after the game, Brooks predicted the fine amount.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to say that\u2019s probably $25K,\u201d Brooks said wearing black sunglasses during his postgame press conference. \u201cBut I\u2019m excited, playing well and sometimes the emotions can get the best of me, but I reeled it in and kept going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James Jones, the NBA executive vice president and head of basketball operations, made the announcement Friday evening, Nov. 14. Jones was Phoenix\u2019s general manager from the 2018-19 season when he was an interim GM to the end of the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks made the gesture after drawing a foul on Pacers&#8217; guard Andrew Nembhard on a basket with 54.4 seconds left in the first half. Brooks did an upward thrust with his hands after falling to the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks made the ensuing free throw to give the Suns a 67-52 lead. He finished the game with a season-high 32 points with 24 coming in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks is averaging a career-high 20.3 points in his first season with the Suns. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Have opinions about the current state of the\u00a0Suns? Reach Suns Insider Duane Rankin at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:dmrankin@gannett.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dmrankin@gannett.com<\/a>\u00a0or contact him at 480-810-5518. Follow him on X, formerly Twitter, at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DuaneRankin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@DuaneRankin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Support local journalism: Subscribe to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cm.azcentral.com\/specialoffer?gps-source=CPNEWS&amp;utm_medium=onsite&amp;utm_source=TAGLINE&amp;utm_campaign=NEWSROOM&amp;utm_content=JEREMYCLUFF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">azcentral.com<\/a>\u00a0today.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suns&#8217; Dillon Brooks shares the last time he lacked confidence Dillon Brooks scored a season-high 32 points in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":380279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,10887,17374,5643,1587,1339,7230,7229,7190,2862,1267,1571,5382,1260,151403,942,635,7233,50,450,950,5999,1589,1721,62,1458,7231,27761,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7223],"class_list":["post-380278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-andrew","tag-andrew-nembhard","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-basketball","tag-brooks","tag-dillon","tag-dillon-brooks","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-nba","tag-nembhard","tag-neutral","tag-new","tag-new-visitors-az","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-pacers","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-suns","tag-twitter","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-visitors"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115552699775102945","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380278","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=380278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}