{"id":22735,"date":"2025-11-02T21:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T21:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/22735\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T21:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T21:07:07","slug":"philadelphias-joel-embiid-is-fined-50000-for-a-lewd-gesture-during-a-game-against-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/22735\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia&#8217;s Joel Embiid is fined $50,000 for a lewd gesture during a game against Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 The NBA has fined Philadelphia center Joel Embiid $50,000 for making what the league determined to be a lewd gesture during a game against Boston on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The fine was announced Sunday by James Jones, the league&#8217;s executive vice president and head of basketball operations.<\/p>\n<p>Embiid scored while getting fouled with 7:08 remaining in the first quarter against the Celtics, then made a chopping gesture toward his groin. Embiid has now been fined at least four times in the past for making the gesture \u2014 $75,000 in December 2024 (a game in which he made multiple gestures), $35,000 in October 2023 and $25,000 in January 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia lost Friday&#8217;s game, 109-108.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 The NBA has fined Philadelphia center Joel Embiid $50,000 for making what the league determined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9512,4794,69,71,70,5342],"class_list":["post-22735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-boston-celtics","tag-nba","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-wires-bot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}