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Jason Fitz and Harry Douglas have been extremely disappointed with how the Dallas Mavericks had been punished through the NBA for tanking at the end of the 2022 season.
The league began an investigation on the Mavs after they sat several key players – together with Kyrie Irving and Luka Doncic – despite nonetheless being in playoff competition. On Friday, the NBA announced it had fined the Mavs $750,000 for “conduct detrimental to the league.”
Douglas believes that’s simply now not enough.
“I feel they’d a possibility, at this second, to make an instance out of the Dallas Mavericks to let everyone recognize that this isn’t what the NBA is set and we’re no longer gonna condone it,” Douglas stated all through the duo’s Friday episode of Fitz & Harry on ESPN Radio, “and so they didn’t do it. $750,000, to an owner like Mark Cuban, is a slap on the wrist.”
“$750,000 to an owner like Mark Cuban is a slap on the wrist.”@HDouglas83 and @jasonfitz strongly disagree with the NBA’s resolution to just high-quality the Dallas Mavericks after the workforce brazenly violated the league’s player resting policy. percenttwitter.com/kPW1tAm50E
— ESPN Radio (@ESPNRadio) April 14, 2023
In the NBA’s announcement, league Executive Vice President Joe Dumars said the Mavericks “undermined the integrity of our sport” and “failed our lovers.” To Fitz, the fantastic didn’t suit these harsh phrases and can simplest motivate teams to do the same.
“So what the league is telling you is their investigation showed them what we expect is true, and they’re telling you it’s 750,000 bucks,” Fitz mentioned. “You wanna inform me that every workforce won’t pay a million bucks to check out and get a greater slot in the draft? It’s asinine via the league. It is soft by means of (NBA Commissioner) Adam Silver.
“You cannot inform me that $750,000 is a deterrent.”
According to the league, the Mavs “violated the league’s participant resting policy and confirmed thru movements and public statements the organization’s desire to lose the sport to be able to reinforce the possibilities of holding its first-spherical decide in the 2023 NBA Draft.” Fitz delivered that a proper punishment would had been the forfeiture of that choose.
It is the second time the on-once more, off-again presidential hopeful Cuban has needed to pay a tanking-associated high-quality.
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