According to the NBA, the Serb from the Denver Nuggets has to pay $ 25,000 for his “inappropriate contact with a spectator” but will not be suspended.
Late in the second quarter he elbowed Suns owner Mat Ishbia, who was watching the game in the crowd, in the chest for Jokic to concede a technical foul.
“The fan touched me first,” said Jokic afterwards: “I thought the league wanted to protect us. Maybe I’m wrong. I know who he is – but at the end of the day he’s a fan, isn’t he? “
Ishbia had then tried to de-escalate himself. “Suspending or punishing someone for the incident would not be right,” the 43-year-old wrote Twitter: “I have great respect for Jokic and I don’t want to see anything like that.”
Game five is Wednesday (4:00 a.m.) in Denver.
2023-05-09 15:07:46
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