{"id":506344,"date":"2026-02-26T23:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T23:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/506344\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T23:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T23:31:14","slug":"nba-fines-timberwolves-edwards-magics-bane-for-ball-heaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/506344\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA fines Timberwolves’ Edwards, Magic’s Bane for ball heaves"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK — Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> All-Star Anthony Edwards<\/a> was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Thursday for “throwing the game ball with force into the spectator stands,” the league announced.<\/p>\n

The incident occurred at halftime of Minnesota’s victory at Portland<\/a> on Tuesday. After a missed shot by the Trail Blazers as the buzzer sounded, Edwards casually grabbed the loose ball and hurled it the length of the floor toward the opposite basket.<\/p>\n

The NBA’s announcement included video<\/a> that showed the ball appearing to hit an arena staff member in the head.<\/p>\n

Edwards was fined a total of $420,000 by the league last season for eight different transgressions, mostly for profane language in postgame interviews. After one incident he was docked $35,000 for failing to leave the court in a timely manner and throwing the ball into the stands after his ejection from a game.<\/p>\n

The NBA also announced a $25,000 fine to Orlando Magic<\/a> guard Desmond Bane<\/a>, also for throwing the game ball with force into the stands. Bane’s incident occurred at the end of Orlando’s 110-109 win at the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK — Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star Anthony Edwards was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Thursday for “throwing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-506344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506344","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=506344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}