{"id":412587,"date":"2026-04-27T03:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/412587\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T03:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:10:08","slug":"nikola-jokic-fined-50000-julius-randle-fined-35000-for-nuggets-wolves-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/412587\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikola Joki\u0107 fined $50,000, Julius Randle fined $35,000 for Nuggets-Wolves incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Denver\u2019s Nikola Joki\u0107 was fined $50,000 and Minnesota\u2019s Julius Randle was fined $35,000 for their roles in <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nba-playoffs-nuggets-timberwolves-fight-23e78d7bfa8af8bbf7550757db0c5fe2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an altercation<\/a>\u00a0near the end of Game 4 of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/playoffs\/2026\/west-first-round-3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the teams\u2019 first-round playoff series<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2048546488033083588\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the NBA announced<\/a> Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Both will be eligible to play when the series resumes Monday with Game 5 in Denver (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/min-vs-den-0042500165\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">10:30 ET, Peacock\/NBC<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The following has been released by the NBA. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CNOiLyOOgm\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/CNOiLyOOgm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2048546488033083588?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The incident was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/nuggets-timberwolves-2026-playoffs-game-4-takeaways\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">evidently sparked<\/a> when Minnesota\u2019s\u00a0Jaden McDaniels\u00a0took an uncontested layup with 2.1 seconds left and the Timberwolves already leading by 14 \u2014 a play the Nuggets took exception to, given how the game had been decided.<\/p>\n<p>Joki\u0107, the NBA said, \u201cinitiated the incident by confronting and shoving\u201d McDaniels in reaction to that play. Randle, the league said, \u201cescalated the incident by forcefully inserting himself into the scrum and shoving Nuggets guard-forward Bruce Brown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joki\u0107 and Randle were assessed technical fouls and ejected from the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe scored when we\u2019d stopped playing,\u201d Joki\u0107 said. \u201cYou guys saw what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The teams are meeting in the postseason for the third time in the last four years. Minnesota leads the series 3-1, but will be without guard Donte DiVincenzo for the rest of the season because of a torn Achilles and will be without fellow guard Anthony Edwards indefinitely because of a knee injury. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/anthony-edwards-donte-divincenzo-injuries\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DiVincenzo and Edwards both\u00a0got hurt<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Denver\u2019s Nikola Joki\u0107 was fined $50,000 and Minnesota\u2019s Julius Randle was fined $35,000 for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[51107,85,46,31945,54072,105],"class_list":["post-412587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-fine","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-julius-randle","tag-nikola-jokic","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}