{"id":251337,"date":"2025-10-30T17:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/251337\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T17:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:15:07","slug":"hornets-lamelo-ball-fined-35k-for-flipping-off-referee-in-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/251337\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets&#8217; LaMelo Ball fined $35K for flipping off referee in loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761844507_488_youngmisuk_ohm.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ohm YoungmisukOct 30, 2025, 12:30 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a>Ohm Youngmisuk has covered the Giants, Jets and the NFL since 2006. Prior to that, he covered the Nets, Knicks and the NBA for nearly a decade. He joined ESPNNewYork.com after working at the New York Daily News for almost 12 years and is a graduate of Michigan State University.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NotoriousOHM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow him on Twitter \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"377633c2-0dd1-91a1-83c0-9ed2d0c00ea1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/cha\/charlotte-hornets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Hornets<\/a> star point guard <a data-player-guid=\"ffef74e7-7cb4-3cb6-8fc3-4f01ac97fd39\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4432816\/lamelo-ball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LaMelo Ball<\/a> was fined $35,000 for making an obscene gesture on the court during the Hornets&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/recap\/_\/gameId\/401809979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">144-117 loss<\/a> to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"81e3212c-30ef-9b1b-5edb-453b13ff265a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/mia\/miami-heat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Heat<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Ball was whistled for an offensive foul on a drive and made the hand gesture after the call and was assessed a technical foul with 4:02 remaining in the fourth quarter in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Ball finished with 20 points, nine assists and eight rebounds in the loss. Ball is averaging 26.3 points, 9.5 assists and 8.3 rebounds in the first four games of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte hosts the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/orl\/orlando-magic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Orlando Magic<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ohm YoungmisukOct 30, 2025, 12:30 PM ET CloseOhm Youngmisuk has covered the Giants, Jets and the NFL since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-251337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}