LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Los Angeles Clippers head coach Doc Rivers has been fined $15,000 following his angry outburst towards a game official, the NBA announced on Thursday.
Rivers needed to be restrained by Clippers players after being ejected during his team’s 127-122 double-overtime defeat to the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday.
Rivers later said he had been incensed by a technical foul against him.
“The official, who had nothing to do with the play, thought I was yelling at (referee) Lauren (Holtkamp) and I wasn’t,” Rivers said.
“We weren’t. She said I was right and let’s walk back. We weren’t even arguing. It was the damndest tech to give at that time.”
Crew chief Ken Mauer later said Rivers had been penalised for crossing over midcourt. He was ejected after receiving a second technical foul for “behavior and language.”
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