NEW YORK: Brooklyn Nets guard Cam Thomas was fined $40,000 by the NBA on Friday (Saturday in Manila) for using derogatory and disparaging language during a live television interview.

Thomas was being interviewed along with Spencer Dinwiddie on TNT after the Nets' 116-105 victory over Chicago on Thursday night. He was asked about Dinwiddie's joke that he and Dorian Finney-Smith, who came together from Dallas in the trade for Kyrie Irving, helped make the Nets a better-looking team.

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