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Knicks fined $200,000 for workouts

Updated: February 4, 2011, 9:34 AM ET
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GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- The NBA has fined the New York Knicks $200,000 for conducting illegal draft workouts.

Knicks scout Rodney Heard, who led the workouts, also was fined $20,000, the league said in a statement.

The fines were first reported by The New York Times.

"We will abide by the NBA's decision and will have no further comment," a Knicks spokesman said.

The league has been investigating the Knicks since a Yahoo! Sports report in October that Heard, in a three-year ...

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