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
@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!!!
...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.
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.
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.
The media really got us hyped up with Silver's comments. I think if he didn't make that statement during the finals, then this would seem like a decent suspension. Everybody kind of went wild with the speculation about the Pacers "laser pointer" incident, etc. I hope they release the details about the plan he has to follow to be reinstated.
100%, this dude was straight up gassing up the suspension, reminding everyone every game that they didn't want to reveal the suspension to take away from the finals.
In the end it's 25 games. At least it's not retroactively applied like the last suspension?
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.
Even for these guys, 7 million is hardly a drop in the bucket. And the biggest loss was probably already losing out on being eligible for a supermax contract.
Exactly, Ja has to want to make a change and his behavior so far just shows he wants to live a different lifestyle and act a certain way that is not going to end well for him. Until he wants to make that change, he is going to keep doing the same things.
I think it'll have a larger impact than we feel like it will. Ja is letting down his coaches, teammates, and the fans who want to see him ball. I get it already happened once and didn't seem to do much, but this is for more games and last time the Grizzlies basically had the post season on lock. We won't see Ja playing with any new pieces on the team until a third of the way into the season.
Hopefully for his sake, this was enough of a wake-up call to make real changes in his life. I'm not a Grizzlies fan, but love watching Ja play.