Isaiah Thomas won’t be suspended for his karate chop, but he will be a bit lighter in the wallet.
The Cleveland Cavaliers point guard was fined by the NBA on Tuesday after his flagrant foul against Andrew Wiggins. The infraction came on Monday night in a 127-99 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Thomas was fined $20,000 for the chop, which got him ejected from the game after it was ruled a flagrant two. The incident happened with 6:47 left in the third quarter as Thomas was trying to defend Wiggins, who had the ball for the Timberwolves.
It didn’t seem to be intentional, and Thomas apologized before he left the floor for good on Monday. Here’s video of the incident, in case you missed it.
WOW. Isaiah Thomas ejected. This looked bad… https://t.co/p5cQCxUjRd
— Dime (@DimeUPROXX) January 9, 2018
A lack of suspension is good news for Thomas, who certainly didn’t want to miss any more time for the Cleveland Cavaliers after he just got back to the lineup after his hip injury. Thomas is expected to play on Thursday against the Raptors. As we saw with the incident, Thomas doesn’t quite have his timing down defensively just yet, so the more playing time he gets the better.
He might want to cut down on the chopping if he wants to stay off the suspension list, though.
