Basketball League NBA fined Finnish time late Wednesday evening Lauri Markkanen Resting his NBA club Utah Jazz.
Utah was fined $ 100,000 for violating the so -called “participation”.
Sports opens up in this article what it is all about.
Why did the fines come?
The rule of participation is a new rule that came into force last season. For the third time, the NBA was fined on the basis of this rule. Last season fines came Brooklyn’s Nets and At the beginning of this season Atlanta for Hawks.
According to the NBA, fines were now coming to Utah Jazz because Markka was not scared on March 8 against the Washington Wizards, nor in other recent matches. “
All in all, Markkanen was on the sidelines before returning to the NBA parquet after the fines were returned last night against Memphis. Utah justified Markkanen’s absence with back problems.
Markkanen’s well-known national team coach and Finland’s first NBA player Hanno Möttölä Last week, she offered Sports her own diagnosis of Utah’s hustle and bustle.
“Yes, this seems to be more of the back cramp prescribed by the club leadership,” Möttölä said.
– As far as I know, Lauri is fine. But if he says he has back problems, then Lauri has back problems today.
Nba justified His fines for Utah by the fact that according to the rules, Markkanen is a star player. In the participation rule, a star player is interpreted as a player named for the NBA star game in the previous year or selected for the NBA after the season. There are a total of 49 of these players this season.
Markkanen is part of this category as he was selected for the star match in the second season 2022-2023.
According to the rules, the fraudulent absences of such star players can be punishable if there are more than one of the same teams in the same match. Utah has had other players other than Markkanen this season, and even the explanation is directly rested, but they are not part of the star category.
The investigation may begin when the star player skips a nationally televised match or a tournament match played in the NBA season.
The investigation can also be commenced with inconsistent statements, such as the statement of a player, coach, club boss, or player representative, which is in conflict with a team’s health report.
In addition, the investigation and punishment may lead to the fact that the star player skips individual away games and the absences are inevitable compared to the absence of home games.
Another justification may be to have a long -time starring player aside from games or, in the opinion of league bosses, the purposeful reduction of the role so that it affects the integrity of the game, such as honesty. The third justification for investigation and potential punishment is an atypical formula from the star player to skip the games.
The cause of the penalty for Lauri Markkanen’s rest has not been opened in more detail, but at least the long -time left of the star player may have been the case.
How does the investigation work?
As the star player’s absence is examined, any exemptions are examined at the NBA office. These include, for example, permission to skip the game of consecutive days in age, injury history, career length or child birth.
For example, Markka has been flushed along the back due to back problems. According to the NBA rules, the investigation goes through pictures, training sessions and other reports on the player’s state of health.
The league office and, if necessary, the independent doctor, will go through the information, interview team staff and the player, and go through the circumstances. These include, but are not limited to, the player’s injury history, the team’s match program, the series situation and public comments.
Then they end up determining whether the player’s absence has been sincere or irregular.
How is the rules be punished?
Utah now ruled his first offense of $ 100,000. The second offense would then become a fine of $ 250,000. After that, the fine will always increase by one million. The third offense would be worth $ 1.25 million and the fourth offense worth $ 2.25 million and so on.
In the NBA, the deliberate weakening of the team in the hope of better bookings and the better of the future has been a long -term scourge. Markkanen has previously had experience in his NBA career. Markkanen’s newcomer to NBA Gave his team to his then team of Chicago Bulls to rest.
At that time, the rule of resting players had entered into force, but The rules of the scoring for last season have been even tougher.
For example, are the sanctions now available to eradicate the problem?
If you compare to the amount that NBA clubs are otherwise pushing for their players, then the fines are still quite small.
For example, Markkanen receives over $ 42.1 million from Utah this season and has so far played 43 matches. So Markkanen has received about $ 980,000 for each match if he makes a direct parable of the salary compared to the matches played.
Even if Markkanen was playing the rest of the NBA season and reached 60 matches, the sum per match would be “just” $ 702,000.
More specifically NBA’s “participation rule” can be read from here.