{"id":20654,"date":"2013-04-15T15:29:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T19:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20654"},"modified":"2013-04-15T15:30:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T19:30:10","slug":"durant-fined-25000-by-nba-for-menacing-gesture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20654","title":{"rendered":"Durant Fined  $25,000 By NBA For  \u2018Menacing Gesture\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 The NBA fined Oklahoma City star <strong>Kevin Durant<\/strong>, $25,000 on Friday for making a \u201cmenacing gesture,\u201d when he pretended to slice his throat after throwing down a big dunk during the Thunder\u2019s victory against the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>The play that led to <strong>Durant\u2019s<\/strong> costly celebration occurred with about 1:45 left in the second quarter of Oklahoma City\u2019s 116-97 win at Golden State. Thunder guard <strong>Russell Westbrook<\/strong> blocked <strong>Stephen Curry\u2019s<\/strong> layup, and <strong>Durant<\/strong> corralled the ball and went in for a soaring dunk at the other end of the court. He then made throat-slashing gesture and crossed his hands in prayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 The NBA fined Oklahoma City star Kevin Durant, $25,000 on Friday for making a \u201cmenacing gesture,\u201d when he pretended to slice his throat after throwing down a big dunk during the Thunder\u2019s victory against the Golden State Warriors. The play that led to Durant\u2019s costly celebration occurred with about 1:45 left in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}