{"id":300812,"date":"2025-11-23T02:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T02:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/300812\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T02:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T02:10:07","slug":"suns-dillon-brooks-fined-35k-for-confronting-official-inappropriate-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/300812\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns&#8217; Dillon Brooks fined $35K for confronting official, inappropriate language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a good thing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/dillon-brooks\/72a6489b-ad35-4f06-8a4f-a68ea1052f7b\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"72a6489b-ad35-4f06-8a4f-a68ea1052f7b\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dillon Brooks<\/a> is making over $20 million this season, because his pockets continue to get lighter.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA announced on Saturday that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/phoenix-suns\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"phoenix-suns\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> forward had been fined $35,000 for confronting and directing inappropriate language toward game officials.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s incurred over $400,000 worth of fines throughout his nine-year career, stemming from over 100 incidents.<\/p>\n<p>His latest fine-incurring actions occurred following the conclusion of Phoenix&#8217;s 114-113 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday night. Brooks finished the game with 22 points, five rebounds and two steals in 37 minutes of action.<\/p>\n<p>The Mississauga, Ont. native is in the midst of a breakout season \u2014 averaging a career-best 21.0 points and 2.1 steals per game through 10 appearances \u2014 as he&#8217;s helped the Suns to a surprising 10-6 start, good for 6th in the West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a good thing Dillon Brooks is making over $20 million this season, because his pockets continue to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-300812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}