{"id":21453,"date":"2024-12-29T23:55:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T23:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=21453"},"modified":"2024-12-29T23:55:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T23:55:24","slug":"jaylen-brown-sends-stark-message-to-nba-discipline-chief-with-throat-gesture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=21453","title":{"rendered":"Jaylen Brown Sends Stark Message to NBA Discipline Chief With Throat Gesture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Jaylen-Brown-message-NBA-Gesture.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Jaylen-Brown-message-NBA-Gesture.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Jaylen-Brown-message-NBA-Gesture.jpg?quality=45&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Jaylen-Brown-message-NBA-Gesture.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Jaylen Brown Sends Stark Message to NBA Discipline Chief With Throat Gesture\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>On December 4, the Boston Celtics defeated the Detroit Pistons 130-120 in a game at the TD Garden in Boston. But it wasn\u2019t the final score that made the biggest news after the game, or even the fact that the Celtics won despite the absence of their superstar player Jayson Tatum, behind 28 points from Jaylen Brown and 26 from center Kristaps Porzingis.<\/p>\n<p>No, the biggest news from the game was generated by Brown not because of the points he scored, but by his celebration after he slammed down a two-handed dunk over the Pistons\u2019 Isaiah Stewart toward the end of the first quarter. That\u2019s when Brown, after a quick stare-down with Stewart, delivered a \u201cthroat slashing\u201d celebration gesture, dragging his extended thumb across his own throat in a move that seemed designed to intimidate the opposing player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just got caught up in the moment. Big play,\u201d Brown said after the Pistons game. \u201cI think the NBA and the (Player\u2019s Association) are sensitive about the gestures, so I got to be mindful of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>The \u2018Throat Slash\u2019 Has Been Banned Since 1999<\/h2>\n<p>Brown told the media that he expected to hear from the NBA league office about the gesture. And indeed, he did hear from the league office, in the form of of league head of basketball operations and chief disciplinarian Joe Dumars, who deemed Brown\u2019s throat slashing pantomime an \u201cinappropriate gesture\u201d and slapped the Celtics\u2019 three-time All Star with a $25,000 fine.<\/p>\n<p>The league has banned the \u201cthroat slashing\u201d celebration move since 1999. In the National Football League, \u201cthroat slashing\u201d celebration moves have been outlawed since 1991.<\/p>\n<p>It was most likely with those rules, and the $25,000 fine, in mind that Brown sent what appeared to be a message to the league on Friday night when the Celtics took on the Indiana Pacers at TD Garden. Coming off back-to-back losses for the first time this season \u2014 in fact, for the first time since April, toward the end of the 2023-2024 season \u2014 Boston came out with fierce determination and simply blew the Pacers off the court. The final score was 142-105, a 37-point margin of victory.<\/p>\n<p>Brown took over the game, pouring in 44 points in the Celtics\u2019 victory, the third-highest point total of his nine-year career. Brown scored 50 against the Orlando Magic on January 2, 2022, and 47 in Madison Square Garden against the New York Knicks on October 20, 2021.<\/p>\n<h2>Brown Finds Way to Defy Throat Slash Ban With No Fine<\/h2>\n<p>But after another monster dunk, this one over Pacers All Star guard Tyrese Haliburton, Brown turned to run up the court and raised his thumb to his throat as if to make the \u201cslash\u201d move. And then he stopped. He shook his head and held his hand out, palm down, as if to say that even though the \u201cthroat slash\u201d was called for, he would refuse to let the league\u2019s discipline chief fine him again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPermanent Grave Digger celebration from now on to avoid fines,\u201d wrote Peach Basket podcast contributor Nik on his social media account, describing Brown\u2019s latest version of the gesture. \u201cPut thumb up to throat like you gonna slash then shake ya head like nah I ain\u2019t gon do it to em.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown was not the first NBA player to be hit in the wallet over the throat slashing gesture. Dwayne Wade, then playing for the Chicago Bulls, was hit with a $25,000 fine for the gesture in 2016. And Kevin Durant, then with the Oklahoma City Thunder, was also fined the same amount in 2013 for making the motion in a 116-97 win over the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>After the game, Durant explained himself by saying, \u201cKill \u2019em and pray for \u2019em after the game,\u201d which probably did not help his cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 4, the Boston Celtics defeated the Detroit Pistons 130-120 in a game at the TD Garden in Boston. 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