{"id":325777,"date":"2025-12-04T22:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/325777\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T22:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:49:07","slug":"cavaliers-fined-250000-for-violating-nbas-player-participation-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/325777\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers fined $250,000 for violating NBA&#8217;s player participation policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The team was fined $250,000 for violating the NBA&#8217;s player participation policy by resting <a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"b79b88e1-35ef-4947-8a61-f6ec631a1e15\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/darius-garland\/b79b88e1-35ef-4947-8a61-f6ec631a1e15\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Darius Garland<\/a>, the league <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBAPR\/status\/1996686411773223026?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland rested Garland on the second night of a back to back against the Toronto Raptors on Nov. 24, which was a nationally televised game, and an NBA Cup game. <\/p>\n<p>Garland played the night before against the Los Angeles Clippers, which was not a nationally televised game.<\/p>\n<p>As per NBA policy, a star player is defined as anyone who has been on an all-star and\/or All-NBA team in the last three seasons. Garland was an all-star last season and in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The team was fined $250,000 for violating the NBA&#8217;s player participation policy by resting Darius Garland, the league&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-325777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}