[Pompey] It’s official. The NBA has fined James Harden $100,000 for public comments.
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[Pompey] It’s official. The NBA has fined James Harden $100,000 for public comments. - lemm.ee
The NBA announced today that Philadelphia 76ers guard James Harden has been
fined $100,000 by the NBA for public comments on August 14 and 17 indicating
that he would not perform the services called for under his player contract
unless traded to another team. The league’s investigation, which included an
interview of Harden, confirmed that these comments referenced Harden’s belief
that the 76ers would not accommodate his request to be traded.
$100K is a huge amount of money for me. For Harden, not so much. Compared to the PG-13 crap players are routinely fined tens of thousands of dollars for, $100K seems surprisingly little for how unprecedented Harden’s comments were - although I’m not sure of what technical grounds the league has for fining him. If they wanted to hit him with a harsher penalty, they’d suspend him, but they can’t do that without Harden’s team (6ers, I presume) taking a massive collateral hit
Usually the amount of fines the league can collect is defined in the CBA.
That makes sense. A quick internet search suggests that the $100K handed to Harden is indeed 100% of the max fine per the CBA
It would make more sense to scale with the player’s salary, but which owner is really going to negotiate super hard for something like that?
Actually, I think the owners would be all for something like that - they’d probably be able to exercise more control over superstars. It’s players who I don’t think would want that. Some make lots of money, others aspire to. Currently, rookies get their tech fines paid off by the team or vet players, I’m pretty sure, or at least I’m pretty sure that’s how they do it on the Raptors
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