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<\/p>\nByDave McMenamin <\/p>\n
Tuesday, April 28, 2026 3:06AM<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> guardsMarcus Smart<\/a> and Luke Kennard<\/a> were both fined for a verbal spat with the referees on the court immediately following L.A.’s 115-96 Game 4 loss to the Houston Rockets<\/a>, the NBA announced Monday.<\/p>\n Smart was fined $35,000 for “questioning the integrity of game officials” and Kennard was fined $25,000 for “directing inappropriate language toward games officials,” according to James Jones, the league’s executive vice president and head of basketball operations.<\/p>\n 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 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.br\/]<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByDave McMenamin Tuesday, April 28, 2026 3:06AM Los Angeles Lakers guardsMarcus Smart and Luke Kennard were both fined…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[123638,750,112,114,113,123637,2497,129,100,120227],"class_list":["post-289221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-123638","tag-espn","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-kennard-luke","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-smart-marcus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}