WASHINGTON -- Anthony Edwards has yet another bill to pay to the NBA. The Minnesota Timberwolves star was fined $50,000 for making obscene gestures toward a game official.
The league announced the punishment Monday before Minnesota's 120-106 win at Washington. He was fined because of his conduct with 1:26 left in the third quarter of the Timberwolves' 127-125 loss to Memphis on Saturday. Edwards scored 41 points in Monday's win.
"I made a careless, young, dumb mistake, shooting birds," the 23-year-old Edwards said Monday. "That has nothing to do with the refs at all. That's all me mentally making a dumb mistake. I won't do it again."
Edwards, a two-time All-Star in his fifth season, was subbed out with 2:25 remaining in the period. He received his NBA-leading ninth technical foul of the season while on the bench.
"I ain't getting no more techs, I ain't saying nothing else," Edwards said with a grin. He had 15 techs last season.
Edwards has been fined a total of $285,000 by the league this season for five different behavioral transgressions, mostly for language. In December, he was docked $100,000 for profanity during a live television interview, $75,000 for a profane public criticism of the officiating and $25,000 for profanity in a media interview. In November, he was fined $35,000 for making an obscene gesture on the court.