Basketball game is a highly competitive sport, which requires participants to strictly abide by the rules and disciplines to ensure the fairness and order of the game. NBA, as one of the most famous basketball leagues in the world, its image and reputation are crucial to the league and its players.

Therefore, in order to maintain the competition order, protect the league image, strengthen the players’ sense of responsibility, maintain the competition environment, promote discipline and abide by rules, NBA often regulates players’ behavior through fines.

However, due to the endless competition conditions, NBA once had some seemingly absurd fines. Next, Lao Zhen took everyone to look at the nine wonderful fines in NBA history.

9. Darrell Armstrong deliberately provoked home fans and was fined $1000

In December 2005, NFL Dallas Cowboys lost to Washington red men, while Armstrong played for Dallas Mavericks at that time, but he was a fan of Washington red men, so before a home game, he grabbed the microphone and provoked Dallas fans at the scene: “How about the Washington celebrities?”.

The alliance also issued a ticket of 1000 dollars for his foolish behavior.

8. Tess Thomas “I participated in the dunk contest for money” was fined 10000 dollars

In his rookie season in 2006, Teresa Thomas was invited to participate in the dunk contest. NBA gave each player a bonus of 16000 dollars at that time.

However, Tess Thomas said publicly that he only participated in the dunk contest for “free money”. NBA thought that it was not in line with sports ethics and would make the dunk contest uncompetitive, then he was fined 10000 dollars.

7. LeBlanc James was fined 25000 dollars for kicking water bottles in the stands.

During the period of serving as a Knight, James felt depressed once because he didn’t get the referee’s penalty. After being called off by coach Mike Brown, he kicked a water bottle to the stands.

However, the referee did not see that if the referee saw this action, James might be expelled from the game, but after the game, James still received a fine of $25000 from the league.

6. Yokiki said in the interview that “Don’t be gay” was fined 25000 dollars.

In 2018, after the game between nuggets and Bulls ended, jokki used a language with homosexual discrimination when talking about Wendell Carter, the rookie center of the other side.

However, it was said that yokiki was just a slip of tongue at that time and did not deliberately offend anyone, but he was still fined 25000 dollars by the Alliance for using derogatory and aggressive language.

5. Rodman kicked the photographer’s groin and was fined 25000 dollars.

In a match between bulls and Timberwolves, Rodman and Garnett fell to the ground while fighting for rebounds. After that, he had an argument with the cameraman and kicked the cameraman in the groin.

These behaviors are very unprofessional in NBA. After the game, the league imposed a fine of 25000 dollars on Dennis Rodman. Of course, it didn’t end there, because Dennis Rodman faced severe charges and eventually had to pay the photographer 200000 dollars, while facing 11 suspensions.

4. Timberwolves GM David Khan accused his own player Michael Beasley of “smoking too much marijuana” and was fined 50000 dollars.

Minnesota won Michael Beasley in the summer of 2010. At that time, he was given high hopes. At that time, GM David Kaen was very clear about Beasley’s past, he said in an interview that Beasley was just “a very young and immature child who smoked too much marijuana.”

Although Khan’s purpose was to stimulate Beasley’s fighting spirit, such remarks were still very unprofessional, so he was fined 50000 dollars by the alliance.

3. JR-Smith was fined $50000 for untying his opponent’s shoelaces.

When playing for the Knicks, JR sometimes made some meaningless moves on the court. For example, he was keen to unbind the shoelaces of his opponent’s sneakers.

He once untied his opponent’s shoelaces in two consecutive matches, trying to interfere with his opponent in this way, but the league issued a $50000 ticket to punish him.

2. Radmanovic was fined $500000 for snowboard injuries.

NBA does not allow players to participate in dangerous sports. If a player is injured, he will not only pay wages but also be fined. Radmanovic used the gap of all-star games to ski privately when playing for the Lakers. As a result, he fell and broke his bones, he also told the league that he was accidentally injured.

League investigation found that Radmanovic was injured in skiing, which not only deducted his salary, but also fined him 500000 dollars, about 10% of his annual salary.

1. Kuban team was fined 1.35 million dollars for deliberately smashing

In 2018, Cuban participated in the talk show “House Call with Dr.J.”, he also said that in terms of the current situation of the team, losing was the best choice. At that time, The Lone Ranger ranked 14th in the West with 18 wins and 40 losses. He was also fined 600000 dollars by the league for his bad comments.

In April this year, NBA announced that The Lone Ranger was fined 750000 dollars for his unfavorable behavior against the league in the key battle with the bull on April 8, and they violated the league’s players’ rotation policy, and through actions and public statements, it showed the team’s desire to lose deliberately, so as to improve the chances of keeping his first round of signing in 2023.