{"id":454157,"date":"2025-12-17T21:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/454157\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T21:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:59:10","slug":"rockets-coach-ime-udoka-fined-for-slamming-refs-after-overtime-loss-to-denver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/454157\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets coach Ime Udoka fined for slamming refs after overtime loss to Denver"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK \u2014 Rockets coach Ime Udoka was fined $25,000 for publicly criticizing the officiating in Houston’s 128-125 overtime loss<\/a> to the Nuggets on Monday, the NBA announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Udoka said in the postgame press conference the game was “the most poorly officiated (he’s) seen in a long time” and took a shot at each official.<\/p>\n

“Two (refs) have no business being out there and crew chief was acting starstruck, so you’re seeing all kinds of inconsistent calls, and I’m sure we should’ve got a few more techs,” Udoka said after the game.<\/p>\n

The fine comes after the NBA’s Last Two Minute Report<\/a> revealed that there were three incorrect calls in overtime, all of which favored Denver. The report stated that the officials missed a call against Denver’s Tim Hardaway Jr., and Houston’s Amen Thompson and Kevin Durant were incorrectly called for fouls.<\/p>\n

Thompson and Durant’s fouls gave Denver four free throws. Nikola Jokic<\/a> and Jamal Murray both went 2 for 2 and extended the lead to 128-122 with 47.2 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n

Jokic had his 12th triple-double of the season and the Nuggets got their fifth consecutive win.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Rockets coach Ime Udoka was fined $25,000 for publicly criticizing the officiating in Houston’s 128-125…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":454158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[419,418,171,421,420,425,1260,50,422,423,62,399,314,67,132,68,424,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-454157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-cars","9":"tag-classifieds","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-homes","12":"tag-jobs","13":"tag-local","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-radio","17":"tag-salt-lake","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-television","20":"tag-traffic","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-utah","25":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115737157447734873","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454157","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=454157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}