Comment on [Pompey] It’s official. The NBA has fined James Harden $100,000 for public comments.
streetfestival@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
$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
Ds4zkMjT@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Usually the amount of fines the league can collect is defined in the CBA.
streetfestival@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
That makes sense. A quick internet search suggests that the $100K handed to Harden is indeed 100% of the max fine per the CBA
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
pretty sure we’re in the new CBA rules now. but i don’t think fines have changed.
streetfestival@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
There was a mutual option this year that both sides picked up. The CBA, started in 2017, expires at the end of this NBA year
Ds4zkMjT@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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?
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
or at least scale with the salary cap.
streetfestival@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
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
bird@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yeah this is also one of the bigger fines I’ve seen coming from the league to a player. Biggest I’ve seen is Stoudamire getting fined $250k after he got arrested for the third time for marijuana possession.
Ds4zkMjT@lemmy.world 10 months ago
He must be so annoyed that it’s legal now lol