Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell and center Rudy Gobert were both fined by the NBA on Friday for criticizing their performance in Wednesday’s defeat to the Philadelphia 76ers.
Mitchell, who was also reprimanded for his conduct when he left the court, was given $ 25,000 in the statement from Kiki VanDeWeghe, executive vice president of the NBA. Gobert was fined $ 20,000.
After Wednesday’s game, Michell, who was hit by technical fouls in two separate plays in the last minute of extra time and was sent off with 30.5 seconds to go, said he was tired of the Jazz ‘ screwed “by the referees and shouted the way the team’s games are called” f — ing ridiculous “.
As he left court, Mitchell knocked a water cooler to the ground – described by VanDeWeghe on Friday as “ reckless’ ‘- and then appeared to apologize to a guard sitting nearby as he went to the visitors’ locker room in the Wells Fargo. Centre.
Gobert also took part in the complaints after Wednesday’s game, which led to his fine.
“Our guys can’t call everyone else in the f — ing league,” Gobert said Wednesday. “We know we’re the Utah Jazz, and maybe some people don’t want us to go as far as we can, but it’s disappointing.
“Three times in a row Mike Conley goes to the edge, and they grab him right in front of the referees, and there are no phone calls. And on the other side, there are phone calls that are invisible.”