{"id":636258,"date":"2026-04-28T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/636258\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T13:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:00:15","slug":"nba-announces-fines-for-lakers-guards-marcus-smart-luke-kennard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/636258\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA announces fines for Lakers guards Marcus Smart, Luke Kennard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2181872\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2181872\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages_marcussmart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2181872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcus Smart and Luke Kennard were fined for conduct toward officials after Game 4 against the Rockets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">NEW YORK \u2014\u00a0Los Angeles Lakers guard Marcus Smart has been fined $35,000 for questioning the integrity of game officials and Lakers guard Luke Kennard has been fined $25,000 for directing inappropriate language toward game officials, it was announced today by James Jones, Executive Vice President, Head of Basketball Operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The incidents occurred following the conclusion of the Houston Rockets\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/lal-vs-hou-0042500174\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">115-96 victory<\/a> over the Lakers in Game 4 of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/playoffs\/2026\/west-first-round-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first-round playoff series<\/a> on April 26 at Toyota Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marcus Smart and Luke Kennard were fined for conduct toward officials after Game 4 against the Rockets. NEW&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,66476,12843,9034,590,85],"class_list":["post-636258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fined","tag-luke-kennard","tag-marcus-smart","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636258","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=636258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}