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09-13-2023, 02:44 PM
https://ak-static.cms.nba.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/46/2023/09/NBA-Player-Participation-Policy.pdf
The 5 rules:
Multiple Star Players Unavailable – Teams must manage their roster to ensure that no more than one star player is unavailable for the same game.
National TV and In-Season Tournament – Teams must ensure that star players are available for national TV and In-Season Tournament games.
Home-Road Balance – Teams must maintain a balance between the number of one-game absences for a star player in road games and the number of one game absences for a star player in home games, with a preference under the Policy for such absences to occur in home games. (In addition, other unusual or atypical patterns of missed games involving star players may also be impermissible.)
Shutdowns – Teams must refrain from any long-term shutdown (or near shutdown) whereby a star player ceases participating in games or begins to play a materially reduced role in circumstances affecting the integrity of the game.
Player Resting – Teams must, if resting a healthy player, ensure the player is present at the game and visible to fans.
Investigations
Automatic investigation if (i) multiple stars miss a game, (ii) a star misses a national TV or tournament game, or (iii) team personnel give inconsistent statements about a player's availability.
Discretionary investigation: if a player has a pattern of 1-game absences on the road or is shutdown longterm.
Exemptions
Geezer exemptions: teams can seek pre-approval to rest stars on back-to-backs if they're 35+, played 34,000 minutes, or played 1000+ games.
Serious injury: teams can seek pre-approval for stars recovering from serious injuries to rest on back-to-backs. The exemption is rescinded if a player actually plays in a back-to-back.
One-per-team rule: Teams can't use either exemption for multiple players in the same game.
No exemption for National TV or Tournament: can't use the exemption for national TV or tournament games unless both ends of the back to back are national TV or tournament games.
Personal reasons (birth of child, death in family) or other rare/unusual circumstances, with league approval
End-of-season-flexibility: rest a star player in the team’s last regular season game after the team has clinched a specific Playoff seed, or to rest a pre-approved player with prior serious or unusual injury history in the team’s final regular season game
Penalties
First Violation: The team will be fined $100,000.
Second Violation: The team will be fined $250,000.
Subsequent Violations: For each successive violation, the team will be fined $1 million more than its pits previous penalty (i.e., third offense results in a $1.25 million fine, etc.).
The 5 rules:
Multiple Star Players Unavailable – Teams must manage their roster to ensure that no more than one star player is unavailable for the same game.
National TV and In-Season Tournament – Teams must ensure that star players are available for national TV and In-Season Tournament games.
Home-Road Balance – Teams must maintain a balance between the number of one-game absences for a star player in road games and the number of one game absences for a star player in home games, with a preference under the Policy for such absences to occur in home games. (In addition, other unusual or atypical patterns of missed games involving star players may also be impermissible.)
Shutdowns – Teams must refrain from any long-term shutdown (or near shutdown) whereby a star player ceases participating in games or begins to play a materially reduced role in circumstances affecting the integrity of the game.
Player Resting – Teams must, if resting a healthy player, ensure the player is present at the game and visible to fans.
Investigations
Automatic investigation if (i) multiple stars miss a game, (ii) a star misses a national TV or tournament game, or (iii) team personnel give inconsistent statements about a player's availability.
Discretionary investigation: if a player has a pattern of 1-game absences on the road or is shutdown longterm.
Exemptions
Geezer exemptions: teams can seek pre-approval to rest stars on back-to-backs if they're 35+, played 34,000 minutes, or played 1000+ games.
Serious injury: teams can seek pre-approval for stars recovering from serious injuries to rest on back-to-backs. The exemption is rescinded if a player actually plays in a back-to-back.
One-per-team rule: Teams can't use either exemption for multiple players in the same game.
No exemption for National TV or Tournament: can't use the exemption for national TV or tournament games unless both ends of the back to back are national TV or tournament games.
Personal reasons (birth of child, death in family) or other rare/unusual circumstances, with league approval
End-of-season-flexibility: rest a star player in the team’s last regular season game after the team has clinched a specific Playoff seed, or to rest a pre-approved player with prior serious or unusual injury history in the team’s final regular season game
Penalties
First Violation: The team will be fined $100,000.
Second Violation: The team will be fined $250,000.
Subsequent Violations: For each successive violation, the team will be fined $1 million more than its pits previous penalty (i.e., third offense results in a $1.25 million fine, etc.).