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NEW YORK —The NBA has not stopped fining Joel Embiid for his signature celebration.

The league announced that Embiid has been fined $50,000 “for making a lewd gesture” during the Sixers’ loss Friday night to the Celtics.

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Embiid’s been fined on multiple occasions for his DX chop celebration , a professional wrestling-inspired move the NBA has previously called “obscene.” He used it Friday in the first quarter after converting an and-one leaner.

The star big man responded to the latest fine by tweeting that the NBA “better starting fining the refs for doing the ‘lewd’ ‘blocking foul’ gesture since I’m not allowed to do it.”

After scoring 20 points in a season-high 25 minutes aga

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