Los Angeles Clippers' Doc Rivers fined $15,000 for verbal abuse of official

Los Angeles Clippers head coach Doc Rivers was fined $15,000 for directing verbal abuse toward a game official and not leaving the court in a timely manner after his ejection, the NBA announced Thursday.

The incident occurred with 18.6 seconds remaining in the first overtime of the Clippers' 127-122 double-overtime loss to the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday.

Rivers got so upset he had to be restrained by his players.

"The official, who had nothing to do with the play, thought I was yelling at Lauren (Holtkamp) and I wasn't," Rivers said afterward. "We weren't. She said I was right and let's walk back. We weren't even arguing. It was the damndest tech to give at that time."