For the second time this season, the NBA fined the Cleveland Cavaliers for violating the league\u2019s Player Participation Policy, this time for holding All-Star guard Darius Garland out of a nationally televised game against the Toronto Raptors on Nov. 24.<\/p>\n
The $250,000 fine was announced by the league Thursday in a release that said the NBA\u2019s investigation \u201cconfirmed that Garland, a star player under the policy, was able to play in one of the team\u2019s two games on Nov. 23 against the LA Clippers and Nov. 24 against the Toronto Raptors.\u201d<\/p>\n
Garland, who has been managing a toe injury this season, played at home Nov. 23 in the locally televised games against LA but was unavailable for the game the next night in Toronto, which was carried by Peacock. The Cavaliers cited \u201cLeft Great Toe; Injury Management\u201d as the reason for Garland\u2019s absence for the Nov. 24 game.<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers were previously assessed a $100,000 fine for violating the policy when Donovan Mitchell and Evan Mobley sat out a Nov. 12 game against the Miami Heat because of \u201crest.\u201d After the fine was issued, Cleveland coach Kenny Atkinson said his team didn\u2019t do anything wrong and he has to \u201clook at the Cavs\u2019 best interest<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n The policy, which was approved by the NBA Board of Governors ahead of the 2023-2024 season, focuses on the availability of star players. Teams must make these players \u201cavailable for all national television and NBA In-Season Tournament games\u201d unless they have an approved medical reason not to play.<\/p>\n For the purposes of the policy, a star player is anyone who was named to an All-NBA or All-Star team in any of the last three seasons. Garland, 25, was an All-Star last season.<\/p>\n If a team rests a star without an approved medical reason, the NBA can levy a $100,000 fine for the first violation. The second violation is $250,000, and for each successive violation, the team can be fined $1 million more than its previous penalty. If the league sticks to this structure, the Cavaliers\u2019 next violation could be for $1.25 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second time this season, the NBA fined the Cleveland Cavaliers for violating the league\u2019s Player Participation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[8174,355,99],"class_list":["post-331052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}