{"id":486232,"date":"2026-02-23T19:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/486232\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T19:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:57:08","slug":"scotty-pippen-jr-myron-gardner-fined-35000-each-for-grizzlies-heat-scuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/486232\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotty Pippen Jr., Myron Gardner fined $35,000 each for Grizzlies-Heat scuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb 23, 2026, 01:56 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8212; The NBA fined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/mem\/memphis-grizzlies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4431785\/scotty-pippen-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scotty Pippen Jr<\/a>. and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/mia\/miami-heat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Heat<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4431772\/myron-gardner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Myron Gardner<\/a> $35,000 each on Monday for their scuffle in a game over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>With 1:55 remaining in the fourth quarter of the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/grizzlies-heat-score-8851913befcf20f0eb5710c03ebbdb11\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Heat&#8217;s 136-120 victory<\/a> Saturday night, Gardner bumped Pippen from behind and knocked him down. Pippen then jogged down court to confront Gardner and gave him a hard two-handed shove, resulting in a melee that spilled into the seats with 1:19 remaining. Both received technical fouls and were ejected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 23, 2026, 01:56 PM ET NEW YORK &#8212; The NBA fined Memphis Grizzlies guard Scotty Pippen Jr.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-486232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486232","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=486232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}