{"id":1906164,"date":"2026-04-28T02:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1906164"},"modified":"2026-04-28T02:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:08:10","slug":"lakers-marcus-smart-luke-kennard-fined-for-treatment-of-referees-in-game-4-vs-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1906164","title":{"rendered":"Lakers\u2019 Marcus Smart, Luke Kennard fined for treatment of referees in Game 4 vs. Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Article_ContentContainer__jBNW3 article-content-container bodytext1\">\n<p>The NBA announced fines for the Los Angeles Lakers\u2019 Marcus Smart and Luke Kennard.<\/p>\n<p>Smart was fined $35,000 for questioning the integrity of game officials, and Kennard was fined $25,000 for using inappropriate language toward game officials.<\/p>\n<p>After the Lakers\u2019 Game 4 loss to the Houston Rockets, Smart walked toward several Lakers teammates and referee James Williams. Smart pointed at and exchanged words with Williams before Smart was pulled away by LeBron James.<\/p>\n<p>With 1:11 left in Game 4, Williams gave double technical fouls and ejected Lakers forward Adou Thiero and Rockets guard Aaron Holiday after both players exchanged words getting tangled up underneath the basket.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA announced fines for the Los Angeles Lakers\u2019 Marcus Smart and Luke Kennard. Smart was fined $35,000 for questioning the integrity of game officials, and Kennard was fined $25,000 for using inappropriate language toward game officials. After the Lakers\u2019 Game 4 loss to the Houston Rockets, Smart walked toward several Lakers teammates and referee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,241],"class_list":["post-1906164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-nytimes-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1906164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1906164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1906164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1906164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}