{"id":618446,"date":"2026-02-26T22:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T22:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/618446\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T22:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T22:00:10","slug":"nba-fines-anthony-edwards-25000-for-throwing-a-ball-into-the-stands-after-the-halftime-buzzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/618446\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA fines Anthony Edwards $25,000 for throwing a ball into the stands after the halftime buzzer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star Anthony Edwards was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Thursday for \u201cthrowing the game ball with force into the spectator stands,\u201d the league announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The incident occurred at halftime of Minnesota\u2019s victory at Portland on Tuesday. After a missed shot by the Trail Blazers as the buzzer sounded, Edwards casually grabbed the loose ball and hurled it the length of the floor toward the opposite basket. The NBA\u2019s announcement included video that showed the ball appearing to hit an arena staff member in the head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Edwards was fined a total of $420,000 by the league last season for eight different transgressions, mostly for profane language in postgame interviews. After one incident he was docked $35,000 for failing to leave the court in a timely manner and throwing the ball into the stands after his ejection from a game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star Anthony Edwards was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Thursday for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":618447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[1260,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-618446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116139185206537688","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618446","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=618446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}