Might be the only video game cover he gets on at this rate.
This is actually huge because he will automatically not be eligible for MVP and All-NBA awards.
Under the new Collective Bargaining Agreement that goes into effect July 1, a player must appear in 65 games (with limited exceptions) to be eligible for awards
That’s it? Made it sound like a damn season with all this build up.
It feels like Adam Silver blew his load with the Sterling ruling and has just been Charmin soft ever since
Friggin’ absolutely right. He’s been coasting ever since
I get that everyone expected more, but 25 games seems plenty to me.
The first suspension was 8 games so the repeat offense being 3x the penalty seems reasonable. Another poster mentioned that it also makes him ineligible for a lot of end of year awards. I Silver mentioning that they found additional information had everyone thinking the new stuff was worse and worth a bigger suspension.
It’s almost 1/3 of the games. “Conduct detrimental to the league” is a bit less set in stone than failing a drug test or something. I don’t know what people expected, there is a player’s union that the NBA has to think about. They don’t want the union disputing their decision and turning it into more of a circus. Not sure what people were expecting.
People just hate Ja at this point, it’s less about realistic expectations and more about a punishment fetish.
I agree. Missing 25 games as a professional player while your team either gels or struggles without you would be extremely difficult. If this isn’t a wakeup call then 35 or 45 games wouldn’t be either.
I think that’s a decent amount because it excludes him from being in MVP or All-NBA talks. I think if/when Ja acts up again after this it’ll be the full season off.
…That’s it? Might as well have announced it during the Finals, this is a nothing burger. DeAndre Ayton got suspended 25 games for failing a drug test. Ja has flashed a gun twice and got the same amount of games suspended.
@whoopThereItIs Less than what I expected, yeah, But one cool thing, though, is that this is the first time I find out about NBA breaking news through Lemmy (and also while following and commenting on this magazine, or whatever it’s called, from my Mastodon account).
Same here. I’ve had to revert to checking a few different sites since I got off reddit to make sure I didn’t miss anything important. Lemmy came through on this one!!!
Agreed, that is VERY cool!
This seems super light given the tease from Silver
Ya everyone was thinking it was gonna be a half season even a whole
Drop in the bucket but he’s still set to loose about $7M in pay.
nice to see the sensible and balanced takes made it over to Lemmy /s
25 games is a joke.
Would have thought he’d get more than 25 games but this is still a big blow for the Grizzlies.
Definitely was expecting a full season ban, especially with the way the commish was talking about it
Seems like nothing to me with the amount of games players sit out these days through load management all things considered.
Was expecting more like 50+
