Nuggets guard Facundo Campazzo will be ineligible to suit up for Game 1 of the team’s series against Golden State this Saturday, having been suspended for one game by the NBA, the league announced today in a press release (Twitter link).
Campazzo was hit with a one-game suspension for “forcefully shoving” Lakers guard Wayne Ellington in Sunday’s regular season finale, according to the NBA. Ellington received a $20K fine for escalating the incident by making a “threatening comment” on Twitter after the game.
A video of the incident can be viewed right here.
Campazzo is the second Nugget to receive a one-game suspension this season for shoving a player who had his back turned. Fortunately, Ellington wasn’t injured like Heat forward Markieff Morris was when he was hit from behind by Nikola Jokic in November.
Campazzo was a significant part of Denver’s rotation earlier in the season, but hasn’t played regular minutes in recent weeks, so his absence shouldn’t have a huge impact on the Nuggets, who will be relying more on guards like Monte Morris and Bones Hyland.
The one-game ban will cost Campazzo $20,517, tweets ESPN’s Bobby Marks.
Jokic and Gordon are more than enough take down Warriors small guys
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Wash your mouth out with soap !!
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It looked like Facundo’s beef would be with Mac McClung not Ellington, who was just standing near the rim. McClung pushed Facundo while he was jumping for the rim, sending him flying.
Contact with the shooter should be a foul, but often refs do not notice contact to the hips. It is hard to call at speed.
Clips of this or any incident should be cued up earlier than what we typically get so the viewer gets the context.
If it were up to me he’d get a one game ban. That behavior is not acceptable
Luke I have a question and it came up because the article above says Facundo Campazzo will miss $20,000 in salary.
It was my understanding that the total annual salaries were paid out for the regular season and not the playoffs. Is that correct?
So if a player is on a non playoff team after 82 games he has received his full salary. But if they make the playoffs then the salary would be divided over a greater number of weeks or a greater number of games?
So if Campazzo is suspended for game one of the first round in the playoffs, why will he miss any salary? Any salary or money received in the playoffs is for Series won or advancing. But I don’t know any of that to be 100% true, maybe you can clarify? Thanks Luke.
I don’t have any special knowledge, but I would think it might be construed as suspension for the game where he committed the act and was rolled over to the first game of his playoff series. The players probably haven’t received the paychecks for their last regular season games yet, so I’d think one could be deducted. If that’s the case, he may be eligible for his full playoff share when it’s available.
That could make sense. Deduct his pay from the final game which he hasn’t received yet. Sounds plausible.
A player is docked the same amount of salary for a suspension whether he serves it in the preseason, regular season, or postseason. Here’s the CBA section on that:
“When a player is, for proper cause, suspended by his Team or the NBA in accordance with the terms of such Contract or this Agreement, the Current Base Compensation payable to the player for the year of the Contract during which such refusal or failure and/or suspension occurs may be reduced (or, in the case of a suspension, shall be reduced) by (a) 1/145th of the player’s Base Compensation for each missed Exhibition, Regular Season or Playoff game for any suspension of less than twenty (20) games and (b) 1/110th of the player’s Base Compensation for each missed Exhibition, Regular Season or Playoff game for any suspension of twenty (20) games or more.”
While a player’s salary generally applies to the regular season, most players are paid throughout the full calendar year (two checks per month for 24 in total), so Campazzo’s lost salary would come out of his next check.
Every year, there’s also a “playoff pool” made up of money that’s divided up among the playoff teams depending on how far they go (ie. teams eliminated in the first round would get a little; teams that go to the Finals would get a lot). That amount per player generally isn’t huge, but it should be enough to make up Campazzo’s lost Game 1 salary, even if the Nuggets don’t advance.
(I don’t think I’ve written about the playoff pool money within the last few years, but here’s a 2018 story about it: link to hoopsrumors.com )
Fantastic, that explains it very very well. Thank you for the exact language in the CBA.
I almost had it right except I didn’t realize that players are paid over the 12 month calendar year vs paid during the course of the season their entire annual salary.
Excellent thank you Luke. Thank you for the link on hoopsrumors to your previous article also. Very good !! Quick note after reading the link, teams sure get a nice chunk of change for making the playoffs and then even more cash when they do well. Nice incentive.