The NBA has sanctioned Philadelphia 76ers $100,000 for their handling of injuries. Philly the 76ers $100,000 for the way they dealt with Joel Embiid’s return to the court as the league announced on Friday. Official press releases, which is included below in its entirety, explains that the size of the fine is due to the Sixers for their history of ignoring rules of the league relating to injuries and reporting.
The NBA announced today that the Philadelphia 76ers had been penalized $100,000 for breaking the league’s rules for reporting injuries.
The 76ers did not provide a precise information regarding the availability for Joel Embiid prior the game they played against Oklahoma City Thunder on April 2. Embiid was reported with the status of “Out” in the initial injury report, but he later participated for the team in. The fine is based on the 76ers’ history of fines for violations of the rules for reporting injuries.
Prior towards Philadelphia’s clash with in the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday, a variety of reports suggested that Embiid might be able in the game for his first appearance since January. 30. Embiid was treated for the injured meniscus in his left knee back in February.
Embiid However, Embiid was absent from the Sixers morning shootaround. As the game drew closer the time for the game, it was reported that the Sixers continued to mark the player as out, like they have done for over two months, right until the 5:30 p.m. ET injury report.
In the 5th minute of five:49 p.m., the team announced that the status of Embiid had been changed to doubtful. A few minutes later, ESPN’s Adrian Wonarowski informed the news that Embiid was scheduled to be in the lineup. The announcement was made official after Philadelphia released its team’s lineup just 30 minutes prior to tipoff like all teams are required to do.
Concerning what is the Sixers’ “prior history” of these violations:
- On February. 1 1st, the NBA penalized them with $75,000 for not revealing the soreness in Embiid’s knee before the game. He was scratched late in a nationally telecast match against the Denver Nuggets.
- On May 7th 2022 the NBA penalized them with a $50,000 fine in a case that resembled Tuesday’s. He was absent from the initial two games in their game against Miami Heat, and the team “failed to report” his condition “in an timely and accurate way” prior to his return during Game 3.
- The day before Jan. 11 2021 the NBA sanctioned the Nuggets with $25,000 in fines for not sitting Ben Simmons at the end of the game against the Nuggets because of what the coach at the time Doc Rivers described as knee stiffness, despite not putting his name on the injury report before the game.
