{"id":475038,"date":"2026-02-12T12:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/475038\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T12:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:14:07","slug":"kings-coach-brian-goorjian-fined-over-foul-mouthed-nbl-spray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/475038\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings coach Brian Goorjian fined over foul-mouthed NBL spray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney Kings coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nbl\/story\/_\/id\/47865178\/uncalled-goorjian-f-tirade-rival-player-leads-post-game-war-words\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Goorjian<\/a> has escaped suspension over his profane mid-game outburst at South East Melbourne Phoenix player Owen Foxwell.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.com.au\/nbl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBL&#8217;s<\/a> most successful coach can accept a $775 fine following an NBL investigation launched after the Kings defeated fellow heavyweights the Phoenix on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Television broadcast caught Goorjian calling Foxwell a &#8220;bitch&#8221; and saying &#8220;f&#8212; you&#8221; three times during the heated exchange in the second quarter at John Cain Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, Goorjian insisted Foxwell provoked his response with a comment that had not been picked up by broadcast microphones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If something&#8217;s said to you, I&#8217;m going to say something back,&#8221; Goorjian said after the Kings&#8217; 114-88 win, though he would not divulge specifics of Foxwell&#8217;s alleged comment.<\/p>\n<p>Sydney Kings assistant coach Andrew Bogut shrugged off the confrontation on social media in the days that followed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For those crying, this is an everyday thing in the NBA,&#8221; the NBA champion said via Instagram Stories this week.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Brian Goorjian, Coach of the Kings receives a technical foul\u00a0Kelly Defina\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Emotions are high in sport, there is no HR to cry to &#8230; the same people complain athletes are robots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the NBL want to stop trash talk and fine ppl (sic) they will make 100&#8217;s of thousands of dollars per game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At fulltime, Phoenix coach Josh King and Sydney guard Kendric Davis confronted one another backstage to debate the incident.<\/p>\n<p>As of Thursday afternoon, the NBL had not sanctioned any other parties in the fallout of the fiery contest.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings and Phoenix rate among championship heavyweights this season, respectively sitting second and third on the ladder behind Adelaide as of Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Kings coach Brian Goorjian has escaped suspension over his profane mid-game outburst at South East Melbourne Phoenix&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-475038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475038","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=475038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}