{"id":354775,"date":"2025-12-17T22:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T22:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/354775\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T22:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T22:15:08","slug":"rockets-ime-udoka-fined-for-slamming-refs-after-ot-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/354775\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets’ Ime Udoka fined for slamming refs after OT loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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“Two (refs) have no business being out there and crew chief (Zach Zarba) 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 revealed that there were three incorrect calls in overtime<\/a>, all of which favored Denver. The report stated that the officials missed a call against Denver’s Tim Hardaway Jr<\/a>., and Houston’s Amen Thompson<\/a> and Kevin Durant<\/a> were incorrectly called for fouls.<\/p>\n

Thompson and Durant’s fouls gave Denver four free throws. Nikola Jokic<\/a> and Jamal Murray<\/a> 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK — Rockets coach Ime Udoka was fined $25,000 for publicly criticizing the officiating in Houston’s 128-125…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-354775","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\/354775","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=354775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}