The Sixers have been fined $100K by the NBA for violating league guidelines, together with its participant participation coverage, in accordance with a press launch.
Philadelphia had been the subject of a league investigation after holding Joel Embiid out of video games through the first week of the season for what the group dubbed “left knee damage administration.”
In response to Tuesday’s announcement from the NBA, the 76ers weren’t fined for resting Embiid, however for public statements that membership representatives — together with basic supervisor Daryl Morey and head coach Nick Nurse — made about his standing.
Nurse advised reporters final week that Embiid hadn’t suffered any setbacks after injuring his left knee final season and instructed that the star heart’s absence through the first few days of the season was a part of the group’s plan for managing his workload.
“The league’s investigation additionally confirmed that Embiid has been unable to play within the 76ers’ common season video games this season attributable to a left knee situation, and subsequently his video games missed haven’t violated the Participant Participation Coverage,” the NBA’s assertion reads.
Whereas a group is taken into account to have violated the player participation policy and is topic to a fantastic for holding a wholesome participant out of nationally televised recreation (like final Wednesday’s Sixers-Bucks contest), a group can be fined for inconsistent statements that don’t precisely symbolize a participant’s well being. The NBA made this ruling primarily based on the latter rule, not the previous.
As Bobby Marks of ESPN tweets, a $100K fantastic is the usual for an preliminary violation of the participant participation coverage. These fines would escalate for subsequent violations, starting with a $250K penalty for the second strike.