NEW YORK (AFP) – Boston Celtics star Kyrie Irving was fined $25,000 on Tuesday after angrily throwing a basketball into spectator stands, the NBA said in a statement.
Irving hurled a ball into the public seating area at the end of Boston’s 115-107 defeat to the Denver Nuggets at the Pepsi Center in Colorado on Monday.
A furious Irving was incensed after Nuggets ace Jamal Murray attempted a three-pointer with the final move of the game.
Murray, who finished the Nuggets’ win with 48 points, had been attempting to break through the 50-point barrier.
