New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) – The National Basketball Association fined Los Angeles Clippers forward Matt Barnes $25,000 Thursday for failing to leave the court in a timely manner upon his ejection from Wednesday’s game against Oklahoma City, then using inappropriate language on his Twitter account during the game following his ejection.<\/p>\n
Barnes and Oklahoma City’s Serge Ibaka were ejected with 6.2 seconds remaining in the second quarter of the Clippers’ 111-103 victory over the Thunder. The Clippers’ Blake Griffin was going up for a shot when his arms and Ibaka’s became entangled, which led to a scuffle.<\/p>\n
Griffin was assessed a technical foul.<\/p>\n
During the third quarter, Barnes sent out a tweet with a racial epithet and a swear word in it. The tweet was later deleted.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, Barnes apologized to the organization, his teammates, coaches and Clippers fans on Twitter “for my actions not only on the court, but off. I was completely wrong for pushing Ibaka and then for what I tweeted following the altercation.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been doing this for too long to let my emotions get the best of me,” he continued. My poor choice of words and timing do not reflect who or what I am about. It was very selfish on my part of make this situation about me instead of my teammates that fought their hearts out and earned a big win against a tough [OKC] team. Now I could have took the easy way out and said ‘My Twitter was hacked,’ but that’s not what I’m about. I except full responsibility for all my inappropriate action last night and I am truly sorry!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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