{"id":363113,"date":"2025-12-21T19:53:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T19:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/363113\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T19:53:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T19:53:19","slug":"timberwolves-coach-chris-finch-fined-35k-for-incident-vs-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/363113\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves coach Chris Finch fined $35K for incident vs. Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1965298\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1965298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2251755939-scaled-e1766336763305-1568x883.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"883\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1965298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Timberwolves coach Chris Finch was ejected during the 1st quarter in Minnesota\u2019s win over OKC on Dec. 19.<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2013 Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Chris Finch has been fined $35,000 for directing inappropriate language toward game officials and failing to leave the court in a timely manner following his ejection, it was announced today by James Jones, Executive Vice President, Head of Basketball Operations.<\/p>\n<p>The incident, for which Finch was assessed two technical fouls and ejected, occurred with 6:19 remaining in the first quarter of the Timberwolves\u2019 112-107 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Dec. 19 at Target Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Timberwolves coach Chris Finch was ejected during the 1st quarter in Minnesota\u2019s win over OKC on Dec. 19.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,197583,590,85],"class_list":["post-363113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chris-finch-fine","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363113","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=363113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}