Amar'e Stoudemire, Tyson Chandler Get Fined for Tweeting During Games

by Brett Pollakoff

Filed under: Bobcats, Suns, NBA Twitter

Last Wednesday, I was in attendance for the Suns' home game against the Grizzlies. Laptop was open, and so was my Twitter client of choice, when my feed was updated with a tweet from @Amareisreal. This made me LOL, as the kids say, because at that very moment, the account's owner -- Amar'e Stoudemire -- was on the court not 20 feet in front of me, actively participating in his team's 12th win of the season.

The league doesn't care who sent the message, though, and their rules governing the use of Twitter or other social media sites like it are pretty basic: don't do it during the games. So while it may be unfortunate (because it obviously wasn't Amar'e doing the tweeting), it's not surprising that Stoudemire was fined $7500 by the league for violating the policy.

Tyson Chandler was also fined for a tweet that was sent out during a game, although his case is a little different, because the message updated to his account came from an automated service, instead of from an actual person.

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