{"id":454258,"date":"2023-08-09T19:01:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T23:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=454258"},"modified":"2023-08-09T19:01:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T23:01:06","slug":"anthony-edwards-receives-a-fine-for-his-chair-scene","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/anthony-edwards-receives-a-fine-for-his-chair-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Edwards receives a fine for his chair scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Basketball League has fined the Minnesota Timberwolves superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/anthony-edwards\/\">Anthony Edwards<\/a> 50,000 dollars for his chair accident where he was filmed swinging a folding chair that hit 2 bystanders at the conclusion of Minnesota&#8217;s campaign-ending postseason defeat to the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> in April.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The NBA has fined Anthony Edwards $50K for \u2018recklessly swinging a chair\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6hAreUmNDq\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/6hAreUmNDq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDunkCentral\/status\/1689336620854427649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The fine was shared by NBA today \u2013 4 months after the scene happened &#8211; because of a criminal investigation for Anthony\u2019s conduct, which was dismissed in July.<\/p>\n<p>The league\u2019s executive VP Joe Dumars shared with the media that the Timberwolves guard was fined for his reckless actions in frustration that struck 2 people.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony missed a match-tying 3-pointer at the end of the Timberwolfs&#8217; Game 5 defeat to the Nuggets and ran off the court as the 2 franchises exchanged handshakes. It was recorded that the player swung the chair before entering the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards signed a rookie max deal extension worth up to 260 million dollars with Minnesota last month and, at the moment, is with the USA\u2019s national team as they will play at the FIBA World Cup later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Basketball League has fined the Minnesota Timberwolves superstar Anthony Edwards 50,000 dollars for his chair accident where he was filmed swinging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":454259,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17160,17159,17837],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18339,18338,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The league has fined the Timberwolves player.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/454258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/454258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454258"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=454258"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=454258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}