{"id":624627,"date":"2026-04-24T02:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624627\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T02:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:33:08","slug":"phoenix-suns-guard-devin-booker-fined-35000-for-public-criticism-of-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624627\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker fined $35,000 for public criticism of officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Phoenix Suns All-Star guard Devin Booker was fined $35,000 for public criticism of officiating following the team\u2019s Game 2 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">James Jones, the NBA\u2019s Head of Basketball Operations, made the announcement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The league said it found \u201cno basis to any claim of bias or misconduct by game officials\u201d despite Booker\u2019s pointed criticism of official James Williams. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The NBA also said that Booker\u2019s technical foul at 2:05 in the third quarter was \u201cimproperly assessed and it has therefore been rescinded.\u201d The Thunder won the game 120-107.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Suns owner Mat Ishbia backed the five-time All-Star on social media earlier Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI am 100% behind Devin Booker here,\u201d the post on X read. \u201cLast night was not a good look for our league. Let me be clear, we didn\u2019t lose because of officiating, but that doesn\u2019t make last night any less important. If the referees are going to demand respect from the players &#8211; as they should &#8211; then the players should demand respect from the referees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The top-seeded Thunder have a 2-0 lead in the series. Game 3 is on Saturday in Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">David Brandt, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Phoenix Suns All-Star guard Devin Booker was fined $35,000 for public criticism of officiating following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-624627","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\/624627","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=624627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}