That’s what you get for having fun.
The NBA announced Tuesday evening that they have fined Joel Embiid $35,000 for “repeatedly making an obscene gesture on the playing court.”
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— NBA Communications (@NBAPR) October 31, 2023
For anyone somehow unaware, the repeated obscene gesture was the DX crotch chop popularized by WWE wrestlers Triple H and Shawn Michaels and has been adapted by Embiid for a couple of years now.
The big fella hit four crotch chops after completing an and-one Sunday night agains t the Trail Blazers.