{"id":258243,"date":"2025-11-02T20:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T20:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/258243\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T20:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T20:16:07","slug":"76ers-star-joel-embiid-fined-50000-for-lewd-gesture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/258243\/","title":{"rendered":"76ers star Joel Embiid fined $50,000 for lewd gesture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; The NBA has fined Philadelphia center <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3059318\/joel-embiid\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joel Embiid<\/a> $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 &#8212; $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>Embiid appeared to take issue with the fine on social media, asking the league what&#8217;s the difference between what he does and what officials do to call a blocking foul.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yall better start fining the refs for doing the &#8220;Lewd&#8221;, &#8220;blocking foul&#8221; gesture since I&#8217;m not allowed to do it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NFL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#NFL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WCkaPCOl9I\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/WCkaPCOl9I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joel Embiid (@JoelEmbiid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoelEmbiid\/status\/1985068755957760037?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 2, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia lost Friday&#8217;s game, 109-108.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this story. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8212; The NBA has fined Philadelphia center Joel Embiid $50,000 for making what the league determined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-258243","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\/258243","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=258243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}