{"id":442018,"date":"2026-02-01T02:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T02:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/442018\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T02:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T02:48:07","slug":"cavaliers-kenny-atkinson-fined-for-incident-with-game-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/442018\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers&#8217; Kenny Atkinson fined for incident with game official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">NEW YORK \u2014 Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Kenny Atkinson has been fined $50,000 for aggressively pursuing, berating, and making inadvertent contact with a game official, it was announced today by James Jones, Executive Vice President, Head of Basketball Operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The incident, for which Atkinson was assessed his second technical foul of the game and ejected, occurred with 10:59 remaining in the fourth quarter of the Cavaliers\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/cle-vs-phx-0022500693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">126-113 loss<\/a> to the Phoenix Suns on Jan. 30 at Mortgage Matchup Center.<\/p>\n<p>To view the incident,\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/watch\/video\/cle-at-phx-1-30-26\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/watch\/video\/cle-at-phx-1-30-26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Kenny Atkinson has been fined $50,000 for aggressively pursuing, berating, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[177773,355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-442018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-kenny-atkinson","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442018","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=442018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}