Chicago Bulls forward Joakim Noah as fined $50,000 by the NBA for saying, "f--- you, f-----" to a fan during Sunday night's game against the Miami Heat. Many have wondered what Noah did that made his actions less objectionable than Kobe Bryant's when the Los Angeles Lakers star bellowed the same at a referee.
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According to CBSSports.com’s Matt Moore, it’s the target that matters here. Some will conclude that the going rate for being caught using a hate term on a NBA court is now $50,000, as the difference between the two fines was for “discipline for verbal abuse of a game official” according to an email Moore received from a league spokesman.
Note that the league spokesman did not go through line items to produce that $50,000 figure.
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