O.J. Mayo fined for Saturday’s ejection tirade

The Milwaukee Bucks O.J. Mayo will have to pay the NBA $25K for his on-court tirade over being ejected early in Saturday’s game against the Minnesota Timberwolves.

During the Milwaukee Bucks’ road game on Saturday versus the Minnesota Timberwolves, O.J. Mayo received a technical foul at the 4:07 mark in the first quarter. He was not pleased with the officials and went after them during the timeout.

His Milwaukee teams and coaching staff had to restrain the veteran player on this young Bucks team before being ejected once play resumed. Milwaukee was losing to the Timberwolves 25-18 at the time of Mayo’s ejection. According to Marc J. Spears of Yahoo! Sports, Mayo has been fined $25K for “aggressively pursuing a referee and not leaving the court in a timely manner upon his ejection.”

For a young team like the Bucks, it is difficult to imagine that a veteran player like Mayo has been involved in both of Milwaukee’s embarrassing incidents this season: the nightclub incident in Los Angeles and now this fine stemming from an ejection tirade. The Bucks did end up winning in Minneapolis on Sunday over the Timberwolves, 95-85, but Milwaukee are in 13th in the Eastern Conference with a 14-21 record, a full five games back of the eighth-place Boston Celtics for the final spot in the Eastern Conference playoff picture.

Milwaukee has start turning things around if they want to get back to the playoffs after being the sixth seed in the 2015 Eastern Conference Playoffs. Perhaps their current two-game winning streak is a start in the positive direction. Mayo’s fine, however, is not.