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Cleveland, Dec 20 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A tweet just after a match has cost Brandon Jennings $7,500 in fines. After Milwaukee won the 108-101 double overtime mach against Portland, then Brandon Jennings tweeted on the social networking and micro-blogging site Twitter that, “Back to 500. Yess!!! “500″ means where doing good. Way to Play Hard Guys.”

NBA has a policy that players can’t tweet until about 45 minutes after a game, and since Brandon Jennings tweeted within that interval, so the NBA, for breaking the rules, is fining him. After he learnt about the huge fine, then he again tweeted that, “I understand I got fined, but 7500?” Jennings tweeted after learning of the decision. “For being happy over a win, you would of thought I said something bad. I mean it was a big win for us.”

According to the NBA’s social media policy, the players cannot tweet during game time, defined as beginning 45 minutes before the game starts and ending after players have finished talking to the media following the game. Brandon Jennings infamous and costly tweet was posted at 10:39 p.m. on Saturday, which is about 15 minutes after the game ended.

Brandon Jennings said that, “It was a lesson learned and I’ll move on from it,” he said. “Don’t Tweet when you’re in the arena. I won’t do that anymore. That’s a lot of money, especially around Christmas time. You do a lot of shopping for the family. It doesn’t look like I’ll be able to do that this year. I may just have to give out a bunch of Under Armour gear.”