Current Chicago Bull and ex- Boston Celtic Rajon Rondo has been fined $25,000 by the league for the incident in Game Three of the Bulls-Celtics First Round series where he appeared to trip Jae Crowder from the bench.
Rajon Rondo says he was stretching his leg. NBA determines otherwise and fines him $25k for attempting to trip Jae Crowder from the bench.
Rondo, who was ruled out of the game and almost certainly the series after fracturing his thumb on a play against Kelly Olynyk in Game Two, seemed frustrated by the Bulls' poor play in his absence, which may have been a factor in his ill-timed "stretch", as he described it, blaming the motion on his ACL injury's lingering effects.