{"id":467310,"date":"2026-02-11T04:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/467310\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T04:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:47:12","slug":"bulls-sexton-fined-35k-for-inappropriate-hand-gesture-in-loss-to-nets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/467310\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls&#8217; Sexton fined $35K for inappropriate hand gesture in loss to Nets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/chicago-bulls\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"chicago-bulls\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chicago Bulls<\/a> guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/collin-sexton\/80b5cccf-203b-4482-92aa-76d1598216be\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"80b5cccf-203b-4482-92aa-76d1598216be\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Collin Sexton<\/a> has been fined $35,000 for making an inappropriate hand gesture during a game, the NBA said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened during\u00a0Chicago&#8217;s 123-115 loss\u00a0to the Brooklyn Nets on Monday. He made the gesture after making a free throw with 1:31 remaining in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Sexton scored 21 points in the game, but made just 7 of 18 field goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Chicago Bulls guard Collin Sexton has been fined $35,000 for making an inappropriate hand gesture&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-467310","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\/467310","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=467310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}