{"id":14883,"date":"2026-02-01T03:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T03:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/cavaliers-coach-kenny-atkinson-fined-50k-for-actions-following-ejection-in-loss-vs-suns\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T03:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T03:46:09","slug":"cavaliers-coach-kenny-atkinson-fined-50k-for-actions-following-ejection-in-loss-vs-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/cavaliers-coach-kenny-atkinson-fined-50k-for-actions-following-ejection-in-loss-vs-suns\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson fined $50K for actions following ejection in loss vs. Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) &mdash; Cleveland Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson was fined $50,000 by the NBA for &ldquo;aggressively pursuing, berating, and making inadvertent contact with a game official&rdquo; during a game on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA&rsquo;s head of basketball operations James Jones made the announcement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened after Atkinson was called for his second technical foul and ejected from the game with 10:59 remaining in the fourth quarter of a 126-113 loss to the Phoenix Suns.<\/p>\n<p>Atkinson appeared to be upset about a no-call on Suns guard Collin Gillespie, who was aggressively guarding Sam Merrill on the perimeter.<\/p>\n<p>The loss snapped Cleveland&rsquo;s five-game winning streak. The Cavaliers play again on Sunday against the Blazers.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n<p>Source<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson fined $50K for actions following ejection in loss vs. Suns<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &mdash; Cleveland Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson was fined $50,000 by the NBA for &ldquo;aggressively pursuing, berating, and making inadvertent contact with a game official&rdquo; during a game on Friday night. The NBA&rsquo;s head of basketball operations James Jones made the announcement on Saturday. The incident happened after Atkinson was called for his&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/cavaliers-coach-kenny-atkinson-fined-50k-for-actions-following-ejection-in-loss-vs-suns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson fined $50K for actions following ejection in loss vs. Suns&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}