Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards fined $35,000 for obscene gesture in overtime win over Kings

Anthony Edwards flipped disconnected immoderate fans successful Sacramento connected Friday nighttime and that volition outgo him $35,000 successful fines, the NBA ruled connected Sunday. 

The Timberwolves prima was caught connected camera directing his mediate digit astatine Kings fans with 3:15 near successful the archetypal 4th of Minnesota's 130-126 overtime win. The incidental took spot aft he'd been arguing with officials implicit a foul call. A frustrated Edwards was returning to the seat erstwhile helium appeared to perceive thing from the assemblage and reacted with a manus gesture. 

And this isn't the archetypal hefty good assessed to Edwards this year. The NBA fined him $40,000 for 'repeatedly publically criticizing the officiating' pursuing a 107-101 triumph implicit the Oklahoma City Thunder connected January 29.

Edwards, 23, leads Minnesota successful scoring, averaging 28.4 points per game.

He scored 36 points connected Friday successful the triumph implicit the short-handed Kings contempt a franchise-record 60 points from Sacramento's De'Aaron Fox.

Fox had 26 points successful the 4th fourth and overtime, but it wasn't capable for a Kings squad without DeMar DeRozan (lower backmost tightness) and Malik Monk (ankle). Julius Randle had the go-ahead handbasket connected a driving layup with nether a infinitesimal to play to enactment the Timberwolves up by two.

Minnesota made its archetypal 4 shots successful the other league - including 5 consecutive by Edwards aft Fox opened the scoring with a 3-pointer.

Randle added 26 points, and Naz Reid had 16 for Minnesota. Domantas Sabonis added 23 points and 12 rebounds for Sacramento.

The Timberwolves gave up a 20-point pb successful the 2nd fractional aft the Kings began the 4th connected a 14-0 run. Fox had 21 points successful the archetypal half, but Minnesota led 62-54 aft jumping retired to a double-digit vantage successful the archetypal quarter.

Edwards' wasn't the lone good issued by the league connected Sunday. 

The NBA announced a $100,000 good for LaMelo Ball aft the Hornets prima made a homophobic remark pursuing his team's triumph implicit the Bucks connected Saturday.

Speaking connected the tribunal astir Charlotte's defence connected Giannis Antetokounmpo during the last possession of the game, Ball said, 'We loaded up – nary homo.'

'That's what we wanted, enactment a manus up and past unrecorded with the results.'

The NBA branded Ball's remarks 'offensive and derogatory' successful their statement.

The $100,000 magnitude is the maximum good allowed by league rules.

Notably, Brooklyn Nets defender Cam Thomas was fined significantly little for saying the aforesaid remark successful 2023, at $40,000.

Five years earlier, Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic besides got a $25,000 fine from the league for saying 'no homo' astatine a clip erstwhile the Serbian-born halfway was inactive improving his English.

Per Spotrac, Ball volition marque $35.147 cardinal successful full wage this season.