Suns guard Jalen Green has been fined $25K by the league for using profanity when interrupting a teammate’s live television interview, NBA Communications tweets.
Green made his comments while Collin Gillespie was being interviewed at the conclusion of the Suns’ 115-101 victory over the Wizards on Monday. Gillespie posted 25 points and six assists against Washington. A video clip of the interview can be found here.
Green, who was traded by Houston to Phoenix during the summer, made the trip to D.C. even though he’s currently sidelined by a right hamstring strain. The hamstring injury has been an ongoing problem in 2025/26 for Green, who initially suffered a strain early in training camp, then aggravated it during his ramp-up process in mid-October. The 23-year-old sat out the first eight games of the regular season, played 23 minutes in his debut in early November, then aggravated the injury again a couple days later about seven minutes into his second game.
The fine will eat up just a small portion of Green’s salary. He’s earning approximately $33.6MM in the first season of a three-year, $105MM rookie scale extension.
Who cares it’s 2025
Who cares? Anyone with decency. Potty mouth says a lot about a person. I don’t care if it’s old school or not.
Probably get a lot of pushback on this, but I’m entitled to my opinion just as much as anyone. It’s all good.
It’s like I watched this ESPN special on JJ Reddick and how he was raised in Christian household and all that stuff and then you listen to him on his podcast a couple years ago and it’s F bombs everywhere.
But like I said it’s all good, you do you. Just my 2 cents.
The nba where saying the f bomb is worse than assaulting women
Fabulous false equivalency. Well done.