{"id":537124,"date":"2026-03-21T17:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/537124\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T17:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:38:08","slug":"76ers-drummond-fined-for-making-objectionable-gesture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/537124\/","title":{"rendered":"76ers&#8217; Drummond fined for making objectionable gesture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/andre-drummond\/440b769d-2b8b-477f-80d7-cb21d83c0d52\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"440b769d-2b8b-477f-80d7-cb21d83c0d52\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Andre Drummond<\/a> is taking a financial hit for his actions during Thursday&#8217;s game against the Sacramento Kings.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA announced Saturday that the veteran centre had been fined $25,000 for making an &#8220;objectionable gesture on the playing court&#8221; with eight seconds remaining in the third quarter of the <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"philadelphia-76ers\" data-league=\"nba\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/philadelphia-76ers\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a>&#8216; 139-118 win.<\/p>\n<p>After knocking down a three-pointer, Drummond appeared to make a shooting motion towards the Kings&#8217; bench.<\/p>\n<p>Drummond, 32, is in his 14th NBA season and second consecutive with the 76ers.<\/p>\n<p>In 52 games for Philadelphia in 2025-26, the veteran centre is averaging 6.7 points, 8.7 rebounds and 0.8 blocks on 47.6 per cent shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andre Drummond is taking a financial hit for his actions during Thursday&#8217;s game against the Sacramento Kings. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-537124","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\/537124","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=537124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}