{"id":446470,"date":"2026-02-01T03:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T03:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/446470\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T03:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T03:34:07","slug":"cavaliers-coach-kenny-atkinson-fined-50000-for-actions-towards-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/446470\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson fined $50,000 for actions towards officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday&#8217;s loss to the Phoenix Suns proved costly in more ways than one for Kenny Atkinson.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/cleveland-cavaliers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"cleveland-cavaliers\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> head coach has been fined $50,000 by the NBA for aggressively pursuing, berating, and making inadvertent contact with a game official, the league announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 58-year-old appeared to be upset over what he believed was a missed reach-in foul on Suns guard Collin Gillespie, and stepped onto the court to argue his case, bumping into an official.<\/p>\n<p>Atkinson was immediately assessed a technical and eventually ushered away by Cavs staff as he continued to argue with the officials.<\/p>\n<p>The Huntington, N.Y. native is in his second season helming the Cavaliers after leading the team to a 64-18 record last year. <\/p>\n<p>Cleveland got off to a slower start in 2025-26, however, just 19-16 by the end of December, but has since turned things around thanks to a 10-5 start to January (7-3 in the last 10).<\/p>\n<p>The 29-21 Cavaliers, fifth in the East, return to action on Sunday as they take on the Portland Trail Blazers to continue a five-game road trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday&#8217;s loss to the Phoenix Suns proved costly in more ways than one for Kenny Atkinson. The Cleveland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-446470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446470","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=446470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}