The NBA has fined Celtics guard Marcus Smart $35,000 for his actions after he was ejected from Boston’s win over the Hawks on Saturday, but he avoided a suspension.
Smart picked up his first technical foul in the third period of the game for arguing about fouls that had been called against him, and then with 7:35 left in the quarter he and Hawks forward DeAndre Bembry were whistled for double technicals for having a verbal altercation. Since it was Smart’s second technical foul of the game, he was automatically ejected.
Smart was briefly led away by a member of the team’s security staff, but he then charged at Bembry before being restrained by Atlanta’s Dewayne Dedmon.