SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento Kings Coach Mike Brown was fined $50,000 by the NBA for an outburst at the Jan. 14 game versus the Milwaukee Bucks.
Joe Dumars, the NBA's head of basketball operations, said in a release Tuesday that Brown was fined for "aggressively pursuing a game official during live play and for publicly criticizing the officiating."
Brown stormed onto the court with 9:27 left in the fourth quarter and began screaming at referee Intae Hwang and was immediately ejected while having to be restrained by Sacramento players. Malik Monk wrapped his arms around Brown and directed him off the court.
Brown brought out a laptop in his post-game media session to highlight multiple calls that he found frustrating, as well as a disparity in free throws.
"The referees are human, and they’re going to make mistakes, but you just hope that there’s some sort of consistency and there’s some sort of communication between the refs," Brown said. "The refs tonight, they were great, they communicated with me all night. But in terms of consistency, you guys saw it right here. In my opinion, the consistency wasn’t here tonight."
Damian Lillard made a 3-pointer at the buzzer in overtime to give the Bucks a 143-142 win over the Kings.
The Kings led by four late in overtime, but Brook Lopez made a 3-pointer from the corner to pull the Bucks to 141-140 with 11.5 seconds remaining. De'Aaron Fox made one of two free throws.
Lillard then inbounded the ball to Lopez, who passed it back to Lillard, who then dribbled across half court and sank a shot from about 30 feet that gave the Bucks their 15th consecutive win over the Kings as the crowd erupted and teammates mobbed him.
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