{"id":19215,"date":"2014-05-27T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pacers-george-fined-25k-for-criticizing-officiating\/"},"modified":"2014-05-27T18:12:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T18:12:00","slug":"pacers-george-fined-25k-for-criticizing-officiating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pacers-george-fined-25k-for-criticizing-officiating\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers&#8217; George fined $25K for criticizing officiating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The NBA fined Indiana Pacers forward Paul George $25,000 on Tuesday for publicly criticizing the officiating in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals.<\/p>\n<p>George made his comments in a postgame press conference following the Pacers&#8217; 102-90 loss to the Miami Heat on Monday. He said the Heat won the game at the free-throw line.<\/p>\n<p>Miami went 30-of-34 from the foul line, while Indiana was 11-of-17.<\/p>\n<p>George answered a question about the free throw disparity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What do you think?&#8221; he said. &#8220;I mean, you can&#8217;t tell me we don&#8217;t attack the basket as much as they attack the basket. You can&#8217;t tell me we&#8217;re not aggressive. Maybe we&#8217;re too aggressive. But I feel like we&#8217;re just as aggressive as they are attacking the basket and making plays at the rim. Maybe this was just home cooking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Miami leads the best-of-seven series 3-1 and can advance to the NBA Finals for the fourth straight year with a win in Indianapolis on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The NBA fined Indiana Pacers forward Paul George $25,000 on Tuesday for publicly criticizing the officiating in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals. George made his comments in a postgame press conference following the Pacers&#8217; 102-90 loss to the Miami Heat on Monday. He said the Heat won the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[92,91,93],"class_list":["post-19215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-pacers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}