NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA fined the Philadelphia 76ers $100,000 on Friday over injury reporting rules after they initially held Joel Embiid out for a game and he ended up playing.
Embiid returned from a 29-game absence after undergoing left knee surgery Tuesday that led to a 109-105 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder. This result occurred after the Sixers listed Embiid as out on the initial injury report. In the afternoon they changed to questionable.
Teams are required to post the status of players whose participation could be affected by injury by 5 p.m. local time on the day before the game, unless they are duels on consecutive nights. The injury report is updated throughout the day.
The league said it took into account the 76ers’ history of fines for violating injury reporting rules. On February 1, the team was penalized $75,000 for not correctly including Embiid in the time indicated in the report before the January 27 game against Denver, shortly before he suffered the meniscus tear that led to the operation. .
2024-04-05 19:13:00
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