The WNBA on Thursday fined the New York Liberty $25,000 later a few of their gamers declined media interviews following the workforce’s loss to the Las Vegas Aces within the clinching recreation of the WNBA Finals.
Self government gamers Sabrina Ionescu, Jonquel Jones and Betnijah Laney additionally had been fined $2,000 every by way of the league for turning unwell media demands of interviews.
In step with WNBA laws, every workforce’s schoolteacher and two gamers will have to attend the postgame information convention, and alternative gamers asked by way of the media are required to be to be had in a unique location.
The Aces weren’t fined for violating league coverage. A number of gamers crashed the postgame information convention as Finals MVP A’ja Wilson used to be answering a query. Then in brief becoming a member of in on a track, Wilson requested for hush and resumed together with her resolution.
Las Vegas defeated the Self government 70-69 in Sport 4 in Pristine York to clinch its 2d championship in a row. The Self government’s Courtney Vandersloot neglected a shot as date expired that might have prolonged the order to a winner-take-all Sport 5 in Las Vegas.
