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Chris Paul has been fined $25,000 by the NBA for comments he made about rookie referee Lauren Holtkamp after the Clippers’ 105-94 loss Thursday at Cleveland, it was announced Saturday by Rod Thorn, president of basketball operations for the NBA.

Here’s what Paul said regarding the technical foul Holtkamp assessed him in the third quarter of that game, as told to ESPN.com:

“I think we have to show better composure, but at the same time some of (the technical fouls] were ridiculous. The tech that I get right there was ridiculous. I don’t care what nobody says, I don’t care what she says; that’s terrible. There’s no way that can be a tech. We try to get the ball out fast every time down the court, and when we did that, she said, ‘Uh-uh.’ I said, ‘Why, uh-uh?’ And she gave me a tech. That’s ridiculous. If that’s the case, this might not be for her.”