{"id":633254,"date":"2026-04-28T03:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/633254\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T03:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:07:08","slug":"los-angeles-lakers-marcus-smart-luke-kennard-fined-for-game-4-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/633254\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers&#8217; Marcus Smart, Luke Kennard fined for Game 4 actions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Los Angeles Lakers guards Marcus Smart and Luke Kennard were both fined for a verbal spat with the referees on the court immediately following L.A.\u2019s 115-96 Game 4 loss to the Houston Rockets, the NBA announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Smart was fined $35,000 for \u201cquestioning the integrity of game officials\u201d and Kennard was fined $25,000 for \u201cdirecting inappropriate language toward games officials,\u201d according to James Jones, the league\u2019s executive vice president and head of basketball operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Three players were ejected during Game 4 in Houston on Sunday and five players were assessed technical fouls between the two teams as the Rockets won for the first time in their first-round series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Lakers, which lead the Rockets 3-1, will host Game 5 on Wednesday in Los Angeles (10 p.m. ET, ESPN) with a chance to advance to the second round with a win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers guards Marcus Smart and Luke Kennard were both fined for a verbal spat with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,114816,236893,154604,459,82],"class_list":["post-633254","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-luke-kennard-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-887661","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\/633254","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=633254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}