{"id":441954,"date":"2026-02-01T02:01:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T02:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/441954\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T02:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T02:01:21","slug":"cavaliers-coach-kenny-atkinson-fined-50k-for-actions-following-ejection-in-loss-vs-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/441954\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson fined $50K for actions following ejection in loss vs. Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Cleveland Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson was fined $50,000 by the NBA for \u201caggressively pursuing, berating, and making inadvertent contact with a game official\u201d during a game on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA&#8217;s head of basketball operations James Jones made the announcement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/watch\/video\/cle-at-phx-1-30-26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:incident happened after Atkinson was called for his second technical foul;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">incident happened after Atkinson was called for his second technical foul<\/a> and ejected from the game with 10:59 remaining in the fourth quarter of a 126-113 loss to the Phoenix Suns.<\/p>\n<p>Atkinson appeared to be upset about a no-call on Suns guard Collin Gillespie, who was aggressively guarding Sam Merrill on the perimeter.<\/p>\n<p>The loss snapped Cleveland&#8217;s five-game winning streak. The Cavaliers play again on Sunday against the Blazers.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Cleveland Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson was fined $50,000 by the NBA for \u201caggressively pursuing,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[8174,158797,180010,115085,177773,355,6415,111822,99,7335],"class_list":["post-441954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-collin-gillespie","tag-game-official","tag-james-jones","tag-kenny-atkinson","tag-nba","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-sam-merrill","tag-sports","tag-the-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}