The NBA fined Memphis Grizzlies guard Dillon Brooks $25,000 on Sunday for violating league guidelines governing media entry.
He left with out talking to reporters after the Grizzlies’ season-ending 125-85 loss to the host Los Angeles Lakers in Game 6 on Friday evening.
Brooks, 27, did not take part within the postgame media availability no less than 3 times throughout the first-round Western Conference playoff sequence.
His relationship with the press turned icy throughout a sequence wherein he referred to as LeBron James “old” after Game 2 after which hit the Lakers star within the groin in Game 3.
“The media making me a villain, the fans making me a villain, and then that just creates a whole different persona on me,” Brooks informed reporters final week.
Brooks completed Game 6 with 10 factors, 4 rebounds and two assists. For the sequence, he averaged 10.5 factors on 31.2 % capturing with 3.0 rebounds in six video games.
He helped the Grizzlies earn the West’s No. 2 seed by averaging 14.3 factors, 3.3 rebounds and a pair of.6 assists in 73 video games (all begins) throughout the common season.
