The NBA fined the Brooklyn Nets $100,000 on Thursday, marking the first time a club has been fined for violating the league’s player participation policy.
This policy came into effect this season.
The Nets sidelined four players who typically get significant playing time (Spencer Dinwiddie, Nic Claxton, Cam Johnson and Dorian Finney-Smith) on Dec. 27 in a 144-122 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks.
Brooklyn said giving those players a break in a second game in two nights (and the start of a stretch of six games in nine days) was the best option for the team.
Before the season, the league let clubs know that the simultaneous rest of several players, when healthy enough to play, will no longer be something that will be passed up.
“We have spoken with all the teams to tell them that there is a way to rest the players,” Joe Dumars, NBA executive vice president and head of basketball operations, said in a statement.
“What we said is that resting four or five guys is not the right way to go. So if you want your players to rest, there are ways to do so. But if you do it in a way where it becomes blatant, that’s just not what we (want to see), in a league where there are 82 games on the schedule. »
2024-01-04 23:37:00
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