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Jeff Chiu/Associated Press Houston Rockets point guard Chris Paul has been fined $35,000 for making contact with a referee during Sunday’s game against the Golden State Warriors , but he will not be suspended for Game 2 Tuesday, according to Shams Charania of Stadium and The Athletic.  The incident came in the closing seconds of a 104-100 loss for the Rockets, with Paul being ejected after arguing about a non-call: Bleacher Report @BleacherReport Rough ending for the Rockets https://t.co/ha7dGYi120 According to Marc J. Spears of The Undefeated, the league fined him for “aggressively confronting and recklessly making contact with a game official.” Although it is never acceptable to make contact with an official, the guard’s anger might have been justified. According to the NBA ‘s   Last Two Minute Report , Warriors guard Stephen Curry should have been called for a foul on Eric Gordon with 4.4 seconds remaining, but it was instead ruled a turnover. Paul’s o...

Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid is taking drastic measures to ensure he’s healthy enough to play against the Toronto Raptors in the 2019 NBA playoffs. Embiid told ESPN’s Jackie MacMullan he was going through six separate treatment sessions daily on his left knee. The two-time All-Star added he sets his alarm for 5 a.m. ET to begin the regimen. “ Normally, sleep helps me a lot,” he said. “B ut right now sleep is secondary. I’ve got to take care of my body. I’ll sleep later.” In addition to the knee treatment, 76ers coach Brett Brown revealed Embiid received IV fluids before the team’s Game 2 94-89 win over the Raptors. Embiid missed Philadelphia’s Game 3 win over the Brooklyn Nets in the first round. In his four appearances during the series, he averaged 24.3 minutes per game in the series, a noticeable drop from his usage in the regular season (33.4 minutes). Prior to the start of the second round, Embiid indicated he wanted to see the...

One of WeWork’s fastest-growing businesses has nothing to do with its start as a coworking space for people looking to get fledgling companies off the ground. About one-third of WeWork’s members now work for big companies such as Microsoft, BlackRock, Salesforce, and Adidas. WeWork started targeting these companies just over two years ago, in a push led by Michael Gross, the company’s vice chairman. “From an employer standpoint, WeWork is a better experience for their employees and meaningfully cheaper on a per-employee basis” than traditional office space, Artie Minson, WeWork’s copresident and chief financial officer, told Business Insider. “The CEOs like us and the CFOs like us.” A survey released on Monday — WeWork’s first “global impact report” — showed some of the benefits for these major companies, among other statistics. About half the enterprise members said WeWork has helped them enter new markets, and more than three-quarters said it has helped them attract and retain ta...

The European Union has extended a ban on selling arms to Myanmar and prolonged sanctions against high-ranking officials over their role in the Rohingya crisis. The measures, which include an embargo on weapons and other equipment that could be used for repression, will stay in place until at least April 30, 2020. “The sanctions includes an embargo on arms and equipment that can be used for internal repression, an export ban on dual-use goods for use by the military and border guard police, and export restrictions on equipment for monitoring communications that might be used for internal repression,” the EU said in a statement. About 14 top military and border officials are under individual EU sanctions – barring them from travelling to or through the European bloc and freezing any assets they hold in Europe – over alleged human rights violations, including killings and sexual violence.  It also recalled that it had last adopted conclusions on Myanmar in December 2018 and calle...

Sales of the Google-made Pixel smartphone are falling, company executives said in its first quarter earnings call on Monday, further pointing to the tech giant’s struggle to build a meaningful hardware business. Though Google is typically tightlipped around such metrics, CFO Ruth Porat shed light on the Pixel struggles to explain its slowing year-over-year growth for “other revenues” — which include revenue channels, like cloud and hardware, that are outside its core advertising business. “Hardware results reflect lower year-on-year sales of Pixel, reflecting, in part, heavy promotional activity industrywide given some of the recent pressures in the premium smartphone market,” Porat said. Growth in Google’s “other revenues” slowed from an increase of 35% year-over-year in 2018 to 25% in 2019. The tech giant’s parent company Alphabet saw its stock drop over 7% in after-hours trading on Monday. Google CEO Sundar Pichai also commented on Pixel’s dipping sales. “Phones definitely a...