{"id":492459,"date":"2026-02-26T22:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T22:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/492459\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T22:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T22:51:07","slug":"nba-fines-anthony-edwards-25000-for-throwing-a-ball-into-the-stands-after-the-halftime-buzzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/492459\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA fines Anthony Edwards $25,000 for throwing a ball into the stands after the halftime buzzer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star Anthony Edwards was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Thursday for \u201cthrowing the game ball with force into the spectator stands,\u201d the league announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The incident occurred at halftime of Minnesota&#8217;s victory at Portland on Tuesday. After a missed shot by the Trail Blazers as the buzzer sounded, Edwards casually grabbed the loose ball and hurled it the length of the floor toward the opposite basket. The NBA&#8217;s announcement included video that showed the ball appearing to hit an arena staff member in the head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The NBA also announced a $25,000 fine to Orlando Magic guard Desmond Bane, also for throwing the game ball with force into the stands. Bane\u2019s incident occurred at the end of Orlando\u2019s 110-109 win at the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Edwards was fined a total of $420,000 by the league last season for eight different transgressions, mostly for profane language in postgame interviews. After one incident he was docked $35,000 for failing to leave the court in a timely manner and throwing the ball into the stands after his ejection from a game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star Anthony Edwards was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Thursday for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-492459","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\/492459","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=492459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}