{"id":625189,"date":"2026-04-24T08:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/625189\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:38:13","slug":"suns-devin-booker-fined-35k-for-criticizing-game-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/625189\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns&#8217; Devin Booker fined $35K for criticizing game officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">NEW YORK \u2014 Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker has been fined $35,000 for public criticism of the officiating, it was announced today by James Jones, Executive Vice President, Head of Basketball Operations.\u00a0 Following an investigation including multiple interviews and video review, the league found no basis to any claim of bias or misconduct by game officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Booker made his comments to the press following the Suns\u2019 120-107 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 2 of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/playoffs\/2026\/west-first-round-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first-round playoff series<\/a> on April 22 at Paycom Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The NBA also determined that Booker\u2019s technical foul at 2:05 in the third quarter was improperly assessed and it has therefore been rescinded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker has been fined $35,000 for public criticism of the officiating,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,234433,459,82],"class_list":["post-625189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-devin-booker-fined","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625189","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=625189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}