The NBA has fined the Nets $100K for violating its player participation policy, the league announced today in a press release (Twitter link).
Brooklyn’s staff held out starters Cameron Johnson, Nic Claxton, and Spencer Dinwiddie against Milwaukee on Dec. 27 in the second game of a back-to-back set after all three played the previous night. Johnson and Claxton were listed as out due to “injury maintenance,” while Dinwiddie was simply listed as out due to “rest.”
Brooklyn also didn’t use Mikal Bridges, Royce O’Neale, or Cam Thomas after the first quarter. The move irked Bridges, who said after the game that he would’ve been fine handling his usual workload and pushing harder for a victory.
The league launched an investigation, including a review by an independent physician, and determined that four Nets rotation players who did not participate in the game could have played under the medical standard of the policy. The league did not specify the four players.
The new player participation policy was adopted prior to this season under the new CBA. It was designed to discourage load management and expanded on previous guidelines related to resting healthy players. This is the first fine levied by the league under the new policy, Tim Reynolds of The Associated Press tweets.
As an interesting side note, half of the fine will go to the NBA Players Association under the terms of the new CBA, Bobby Marks of ESPN tweets.
That’ll show ’em!
LOL
Bridges will ask for a trade out soon & he should
So Stupid.
Just do 2 or 3 day stays in certain cities.
You have 5 teams in a division
So say Raptors do a 2 game home stand again Nets, Knicks, 76ers, Celtics and a 2 game stand at their place.
Thats 8 games at home and 8 games on the road.
You can do that twice a year for a total of 32 games against division opponents.
That would leave 34 games to play against conference opponents (10teams) and other nba teams in the west
So 2 games at home and 2 games away at conference opponents (10 teams) would be 40 more games so youre at 72. Leaving 10 games to play against west teams.
Its doable to do back to back at same opponent whether home or away.
That would leave 50 (82-32) games to play against conference opponents (10teams) and other nba teams in the west
Sweet. Now how about fining the Spurs for sitting Wemby on back to backs.
Even though 100k is a huge amount of money for the rest of us, its pocket change for most of the executives and the team in general. Its also a little absurd that the Nets of all teams are resting key players when they can barely scrape by as it is for playoff contention. I also feel that resting is kinda too commonplace to regulate. 100k isnt gonna stop teams from keeping their guys on the bench if they deem that fit
I think enforcing minimum games played requirements for awards (which i know they just introduced) is more meaningful. If guys need to play 60 to qualify they are less likely to sit.
Trying to decide whether a player is actually injured or faking it is next to impossible, and we end up with the freaking Nets as a poster child for enforcement. Who does this help? All the Wisconsin nets fans who didn’t get to watch Nic Claxton? Figure it out, Silver.
If Silver’s new rules apply here, then they do. But the only unusual thing I see in what BKN did was play 3 guys for more nominal minutes than usual, vs giving them the entire game off. Based on the rules as promulgated, that shouldn’t come within any prohibition, or at least no mention was made of a minutes requirement. Bridges being openly “irked” by it may have set the league off. I believe he has never missed a game in his career, so he likely wouldn’t want to take a full night off, and maybe BKN thought doing it this way would be OK with him.
Considering all the players teams have rested, I’m not sure why the NBA decided to pick on the Nets.
You’re not wrong, but pulling players in the second quarter of a game they were leading was the most blatant violation.
What about LeBron sitting out games ?
What’s next each player is going to have so many excused absences before they have to go see the principal?