<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">After looking into multiple incidents last week surrounding Kenyon Martin, the NBA has fined the Denver Nuggets forward $15,000. Martin was fined by the league Monday for inappropriate language, including profanity, during interactions with fans after last Wednesday's game at the Pepsi Center against Chicago. The fine was for Martin's conduct while signing autographs after the game. ESPN's Jim Gray reported last Friday that he and other ESPN personnel witnessed Martin go through a "profanity-laced tirade" while he was with three friends and fans were nearby. It also had been alleged that a friend of Martin's went into the stands during the game to threaten a heckler. But the NBA found no evidence that Martin, who sat out that game with a sore knee, had anything to do with that. "We investigated a few different situations," said Stu Jackson, the NBA's senior vice president of basketball operations. "The sum total of his actions was he used inappropriate language, including profanity, during interactions with fans. . . . There was nothing substantiated that he sent a person into the stands." Jackson said the NBA also looked into an altercation Martin had after Friday's game against Dallas with a radio reporter in the locker room. Jackson declined to offer any details or say whether that factored into his fine. Jackson, who said he didn't speak to Martin but that league investigators did, said the NBA considers the matter closed. </div> Source
