{"id":259510,"date":"2025-11-03T10:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T10:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/259510\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T10:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T10:33:07","slug":"joel-embiid-philadelphia-76ers-centre-fined-again-by-nba-for-lewd-gesture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/259510\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Embiid: Philadelphia 76ers centre fined again by NBA for &#8216;lewd gesture&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Philadelphia 76ers centre Joel Embiid has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/philadelphias-joel-embiid-fined\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fined $50,000 (\u00a338,000) by the NBA, external<\/a> for what the league determined to be a &#8220;lewd gesture&#8221; on the court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The incident occurred during Philadelphia&#8217;s 109-108 loss to the Boston Celtics on Friday when Embiid, 31, scored while getting fouled and then made a chopping gesture to his groin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Embiid has been fined for the gesture on multiple previous occasions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JoelEmbiid\/status\/1985068755957760037\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">post on X,, external<\/a> which also contained the NBA&#8217;s social media post detailing his sanction, Embiid appeared to suggest the gesture was similar to a signal that officials make when calling a foul for blocking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Yall better start fining the refs for doing the &#8216;lewd&#8217;, &#8216;blocking foul&#8217; gesture since I&#8217;m not allowed to do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cameroon-born Embiid did not play in Sunday&#8217;s 129-105 victory over the Brooklyn Nets, sitting out the match as he continues to manage his recovery from a knee injury which required surgery earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia 76ers centre Joel Embiid has been fined $50,000 (\u00a338,000) by the NBA, external for what the league&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-259510","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\/259510","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=259510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}