By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
Cleveland Cavaliers center Tristan Thompson was fined $25,000 for failing to leave the court in a timely manner and shoving a ball into the face of the Warriors‘ Draymond Green in Thursday night’s Game 1 of the NBA Finals after being automatically ejected for a flagrant foul 2.
In a Friday night news release announcing the fine, the NBA said it also was downgrading that foul to a flagrant 1 “upon league office review.”
Also, Cleveland Cavaliers forward Kevin Love will not be suspended for Game 2 of the NBA Finals after stepping onto the court Thursday while he was not checked into the game when a scuffle broke out in the closing seconds of Game 1.
Prior to Thompson’s exiting the court, Love was seen walking onto the court as Brothers went to the scorers table to relay his ruling. Love was quickly summoned off the court by an assistant coach.
By rule, a player who is not in the game at the time of a skirmish is not permitted on the court. However, Love said Thursday that he was not worried about receiving disciplinary action from the league for the sequence.
“No,” Love told ESPN. “I was already on the court trying to get the refs’ attention before the scuffle.”
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