Nuggets guard Russell Westbrook has been fined $35K for “making an obscene gesture on the taking part in courtroom” throughout the fourth quarter of Monday’s loss to New York, the NBA introduced Friday in a press launch (Twitter link).
Westbrook completed with a team-high 27 factors in Monday’s lopsided defeat, with 24 coming throughout a fourth-quarter flurry when the sport was out of attain.
The 2016-17 league MVP is not any stranger to fines, having been docked greater than $500K through the years, in keeping with Spotrac, largely on account of technical fouls. The 36-year-old picked up his second technical of the season in Wednesday’s victory at Utah.
Westbrook, who’s in his seventeenth NBA season, is averaging 12.2 factors, 4.1 rebounds, 5.9 assists and 1.5 steals by his first 17 video games as a Nugget (24.6 minutes per contest). His capturing slash line is .391/.375/.681.
Westbrook signed a two-year, minimum-salary cope with Denver in late July after being launched by Utah. He holds a participant possibility for 2025-26.
