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The Nets, Joe Tsai And Why the NBA Is Sensitive to Questions of Fairness

NBA commissioner Adam Silver has fined Joe Tsai, who owns 49% of the Brooklyn Nets, $35,000 for making a public statement detrimental to the NBA. Tsai’s statement was delivered through a tweet the Alibaba Group co-founder published on Sunday, one day after the controversial Game 4 on Saturday in the Nets - Philadelphia Sixers series. During the game, Jared Dudley and Jimmy Butler were ejected for shoving each other. There were also several calls and lack of calls that drew the ire of Nets head coach Nets head coach Kenny Atkinson and Sixers head coach Brett Brown.