Sacramento Kings head coach Mike Brown has been fined $35,000 for ‘aggressively pursuing’ an NBA official on Sunday.
Throughout Sacramento’s tight-knit defeat to the Brooklyn Nets, Brown was discovered to have aggressively pursued referee Scott Twardoski after officers missed what the top coach believed to be a foul on guard Colby Jones.
Surprisingly, Brown was not ejected following the incident – however as a substitute assessed a technical foul. On Tuesday it was introduced that the league have been slapping Brown with a $35k superb for his actions.
“I believed Colby received hit going to the rim,” Brown mentioned. “I simply needed to indicate our guys that, ‘Hey, all of us must struggle.’ I’m [going to] attempt to struggle, you guys attempt to struggle and see if we will discover a option to get ourselves into the sport and, you already know, if we’re going to go down, we’re going to go down swinging.”
WATCH: Kings head coach Mike Brown aggressively confronts official after missed name
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— Brenden Nunes (@BrendenNunesNBA) November 25, 2024
A press release from the NBA learn:
“Sacramento Kings head coach Mike Brown has been fined $35,000 for aggressively pursuing a recreation official throughout dwell play, it was introduced at this time by Joe Dumars, Government Vice President, Head of Basketball Operations.
“Brown’s actions came about throughout the Kings’ 108-103 loss to the Brooklyn Nets on Nov. 24 at Golden 1 Middle.”
This isn’t the primary time Brown has been hit with a monetary penalty for his actions in direction of a referee. Final season, he was fined $50,000 for the same incident when he believed a no-call towards De’Aaron Fox was unjust.
The Kings went on to lose that recreation towards the Milwaukee Bucks in additional time and Brown introduced a laptop computer to his postgame press convention to reveal his frustration over the missed calls, questioning the usual and consistency of the officiating.
