French basketball player Rudy Gobert fined $100,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct

(Patria) - NBA player for the Minnesota Timberwolves, Frenchman Rudy Gobert has been fined $100,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct towards a referee during the game against the Cleveland Cavaliers, the NBA league announced.

Gobert received a technical foul during the game for a gesture implying that the referee, who called his sixth personal foul, was corrupt, reports Hina.

"I cost my team the game. It was an immature reaction," said the 31-year-old French international after the game.

The NBA announced Rudy Gobert has been fined $100,000 for his actions towards, and comments about, the officials during and after Friday’s loss to Cleveland.

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Gobert was fined $100,000 for "inappropriate and unprofessional gesture towards an official, and subsequent public criticism of the officiating," the NBA wrote in a press release.

Minnesota is currently in second place in the Western Conference with a 44-20 record, one loss behind the leading team in the West, the Oklahoma City Thunder.