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
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).
Agreed, that is VERY cool!
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.
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.
Did think it was pretty light, but given that it takes him out of a number awards it makes sense
And I’m sure he’s on a much shorter leash in the event he doesn’t learn from his mistake
Might be the only video game cover he gets on at this rate.
This seems super light given the tease from Silver
Ya everyone was thinking it was gonna be a half season even a whole
25 games is a joke.
Was expecting more like 50+
Me too. This is pretty underwhelming
Well that’s underwhelming after Silver teased it potentially overshadowing the finals.
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.
Would have thought he’d get more than 25 games but this is still a big blow for the Grizzlies.
Man… Silver seems like such a soft commish. This isn’t much of a deterrence.
I wonder if it’s because this will make him still relevant for All-Star weekend.
He probably will flash another gun right before all star break
if he does it again we know he will claim its a toy gun.
Maybe they will suspend him for 25 more games then. lol
What a joke, would even be better if the suspension included pre season games :D
it includes time served and games he couldve played in his backyard.
