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Bradley Beal will have to pay $25,000 after knocking a referee into an empty front-row seat.

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The Washington Wizards' second all-time leading scorer Bradley Beal was fined $25,000 on Monday for making contact with an official during Saturday's win against the Indiana Pacers.

Bradley Beal

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Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Monday for making contact with a game official after knocking a referee into an empty front-row seat.

Beal made a leaping deflection of a long pass attempt with 8:26 remaining in the third quarter of Washington’s 127-113 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Saturday.

When Beal landed near the sideline, he bumped into referee John Butler, sending the official into a vacant front-row chair. Butler fell into some empty seats courtside, and the game proceeded without any technical foul as a result of the contact.

The three-time All-Star – who needs only 577 more points to overtake Elvin Hayes as the Wizards' all-time leading scorer – may have thought he had gotten away with it, but the fine was picked out during the review process.

He will not miss any time for the 26-29 Wizards, who rank 10th in the Eastern Conference with a 26-30 record following a 135-126 loss to the Golden State Warriors on Monday in San Francisco.

Three-time NBA All-Star Beal, in his 11th season in the league and with the Wizards, is averaging 22.5 points, 5.2 assists and 3.5 rebounds a game this season.

The 29-year-old guard, selected third overall in the 2012 NBA Draft, has helped the Wizards reach the playoffs in five of the past nine seasons, but Washington has not gone past the second round since losing the 1979 NBA Finals.

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