The NBA has fined the Nets $50,000 for Jay-Z’s impromptu visit to the Kentucky locker room following Kentucky’s victory over North Carolina in the Elite Eight in Newark March 27, an NBA source told SNY.tv Friday.
Jay-Z appeared in the Wildcats locker room and met with potential lottery picks Brandon Knight and Terrence Jones, as well as Darius Miller and Josh Harrellson.
Jay-Z is a part owner of the Nets, who play at The Rock.
“I said, ‘Oh that’s Jay-Z!” Jones told one Kentucky basketball blog. “We all gave him a handshake and he came in the locker room, and we just kept screaming ‘Jay-Z in the locker room!’ He congratulated us, just said he was proud of us.”
Boston Celtics general manager Danny Ainge was fined $30,000 in 2007 for a similar incident where he sat with Kevin Durant’s mother in the stands during the Big 12 Tournament prior to Durant’s declaration that he would leave Texas for the NBA.
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