Blaze Sports Roundtable: NBA Player Participation Policy
Recently the NBA approved a new “Player Participation Policy.” This was to ensure that multiple “star” players weren’t being sat out due to “load management.” A player is deemed a “star” player by the NBA if they have been named to an All-NBA team or an All-Star team in the past three seasons. This is to promote more players to play the full 82-game season. Under the NBA’s new regulations, there are 49 current players that fall under the “star” category. Teams that violate this new policy will be fined $100,000 for their first offense, $250,000 for their second, and $1 million for any violation that continues. This is an issue that the NBA had been dealing with for years as many players were being sat out for various non-health related reasons.