PUNISHMENT HAS ARRIVED FOR JOKIĆ: NBA league hits the Serb in the pocket because of the incident at the match with Minnesota, here is whether he will be able to play the next game!

Many feared a potential suspension, and now the NBA league has announced the penalties for the participants in the conflict at the end of the fourth match of the series between Denver and Minnesota.

Denver basketball player Nikola Jokić has been fined $50,000, and Julius Randle from Minnesota $35,000 due to the conflict near the end of the fourth game of the first round of the Western Conference playoffs, the NBA league announced.

The incident for which they were punished occurred at the end of the fourth game, which Minnesota won 112:96 to take a 3:1 lead in the series.

The Serbian basketball player reacted after Jaden McDaniels made a pointless layup 2.1 seconds before the end when everything was already decided. He ran from one end of the court to the other to attack him.

Players from both teams got involved before everything calmed down, and Randle was among them.

Both Jokić and Randle received technicals and were ejected from the game.

“He scored a basket when we stopped playing. You saw what happened,” Jokić said after the game.

Both will be eligible to play in the fifth game of this series, which is scheduled for tomorrow in Denver.

Minnesota will not be able to count on Donte DiVincenzo for that game, who tore his Achilles tendon and finished the season, nor on Anthony Edwards, who will be out for several weeks due to a knee injury.