{"id":1844091,"date":"2023-02-12T08:20:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T13:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1844091"},"modified":"2023-02-12T08:20:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T13:20:33","slug":"nets-cam-thomas-apologizes-after-jokingly-saying-no-homo-nba-fines-him-40k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nets-cam-thomas-apologizes-after-jokingly-saying-no-homo-nba-fines-him-40k\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets\u2019 Cam Thomas Apologizes After Jokingly Saying \u201cNo Homo,\u201d NBA Fines Him $40K"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnets-cam-thomas-apologizes-after-jokingly-saying-no-homo-nba-fines-him-40k%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1844091&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/nba\/brooklyn-nets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Brooklyn Nets<\/u><\/a> NBA fined Cam Thomas $40,000 after he used the basketball ball. &#8220;derogatory and disparaging language&#8221; Following the Nets&#8217; win of 116-105 over the Chicago Bulls, a post-game interview was conducted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The league announced the fine in a press release on Friday, citing Thomas\u2019 use of an anti-gay remark on Thursday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/640\/320\/GettyImages-1463977187-copy.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Cam Thomas of the Brooklyn Nets looks on against the Phoenix Suns during their game at Barclays Center in New York City on Tuesday.\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><span>Cam Thomas from the Brooklyn Nets watches the game against the Phoenix Suns at Barclays Center, New York City, on Tuesday.<\/span> <span>(Al Bello\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thomas, who was the youngest player in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/nba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>NBA history<\/u><\/a> to record three straight 40+ point games earlier this week, made the remark during an interview with TNT in response to teammate Spencer Dinwiddie\u2019s comment about the trade package that sent Dinwiddie and Dorian Finney-Smith from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/nba\/dallas-mavericks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Dallas Mavericks<\/u><\/a> Kyrie Irving to Brooklyn<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/nets-cam-thomas-makes-nba-history-third-straight-40-point-performance\"><strong><u>NETS\u2019 CAM THOMAS MAKES NBA HISTORY WITH THIRD STRAIGHT 40-POINT PERFORMANCE<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/640\/320\/Kyrie-Irving5.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Kyrie Irving of the Dallas Mavericks gestures during a game at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Wednesday.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><span>Kyrie Irving from the Dallas Mavericks gestures during Wednesday&#8217;s match at Crypto.com Arena, Los Angeles.<\/span> <span>(Ronald Martinez\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We may not be the best trade package, but we\u2019re the best-looking. And the Nets needed some help in that department,&#8221; Dinwiddie stated earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We already had good-looking guys, no homo,&#8221; Thomas said Thursday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE SPORTS COVERAGE AT FOXNEWS.COM<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The comment prompted TNT\u2019s Jared Greenberg to point out the obvious.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All right, I\u2019m sure the league office will enjoy that one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/640\/320\/GettyImages-1246970393.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"The Brooklyn Nets&#039; Cam Thomas, right, is interviewed after the game against the Chicago Bulls at Barclays Center in New York City on Thursday.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><span>Cam Thomas of the Brooklyn Nets is interviewed following the game against Chicago Bulls at Barclays Center, New York City, on Thursday.<\/span> <span>(Nathaniel S. Butler\/NBAE via Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thomas apologized for the game via social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to apologize for the insensitive word I used in the post-game interview,&#8221; He tweeted. &#8220;I was excited about the win and was being playful. I definitely didn&#8217;t intend to offend anyone, but realize that I probably did. My apologies again. Much love.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn Nets NBA fined Cam Thomas $40,000 after he used the basketball ball. &#8220;derogatory and disparaging language&#8221; Following the Nets&#8217; win of 116-105 over the Chicago Bulls, a post-game interview was conducted.\u00a0 The league announced the fine in a press release on Friday, citing Thomas\u2019 use of an anti-gay remark on Thursday night.\u00a0 Cam Thomas &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1844094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[8303,18415,5442,7797,5621,18416,18414,7873,10085,10215],"class_list":["post-1844091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-no","tag-40k","tag-apologizes","tag-cam","tag-fines","tag-homo","tag-jokingly","tag-nba","tag-nets","tag-thomas"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1844094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}