EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Los Angeles Lakers guard Marcus Smart was fined $35,000 for making an obscene gesture toward a game official at halftime of L.A.’s 143-135 win over the Utah Jazz on Thursday, the league announced Saturday.<\/p>\n
With the Lakers trailing 78-73 as the second quarter ended, Smart had a back-and-forth with one of the referees as he made his way off the court and flipped him the middle finger after the exchange.<\/p>\n
Smart was previously fined $25,000 for flipping off a fan during the 2017 NBA playoffs.<\/p>\n
Against Utah, Smart’s actions resulted in him being called for a technical foul — his third of the season — and the Jazz started the second half with the technical free throw before play began.<\/p>\n
Smart redeemed himself in the fourth quarter, scoring nine of his 17 points — going 3-for-4 on 3-pointers — to help the Lakers secure the victory.<\/p>\n
The 12-year veteran is averaging 10.6 points, 2.9 assists, 2.5 rebounds and 1.6 steals in 17 games with the Lakers this season, making 11 starts.<\/p>\n
The Lakers will need him in the starting lineup again on Saturday against the LA Clippers, with three members of their regular starting unit out because of injury.<\/p>\n
Guard Austin Reaves will miss his third straight game with a left calf strain, center Deandre Ayton will miss his second straight game with a sore left elbow and forward Rui Hachimura was downgraded from questionable to out on Saturday morning because of right groin soreness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Los Angeles Lakers guard Marcus Smart was fined $35,000 for making an obscene gesture…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,114816,154604,459,82],"class_list":["post-358442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-los-angeles-lakers-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-13","tag-marcus-smart-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-697132","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358442","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=358442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}