Philadelphia Sixers center Joel Embiid has been suspended for three games for pushing a journalist after his team’s game against the Memphis Grizzlies last Saturday. The decision has been made by the NBA’s head of basketball operations, Joe Dumars, and during the period in which he cannot play he will not receive the salary that would correspond to him.
Embiid is injured in his knee and has not yet been able to debut this season, so his sanction will begin to count as soon as he recovers from it.
The NBA’s decision regarding the Philadelphia 76ers center comes after the organization began an investigation upon learning of information that spoke of an alleged push by the player to a journalist in the locker room tunnel after the game against the Memphis Grizzlies.
The sanction will begin to be effective when Embiid has recovered from his knee injury.
According to the journalists who were present, Embiid reproached columnist Marcus Hayes of the newspaper The Philadelphia Inquirerwho made reference in an article to his late brother and his son. Initially there was speculation that he had punched him, something that was quickly denied by those present.
Journalist Kyle Neubeck, of PHLY Sportsexplained that “the second Joel realized Hayes was there, a verbal exchange began.” “He basically told him that he could say that he was very bad and whatever he wanted about him as a player, but to never put the name of his deceased brother in his mouth. “He added that if he talked about his family, they were going to have real problems.” After these words, he pushed him and the team’s security intervened.
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According to what is known, Joe Dumars expressed that although they understood that the Philadelphia player had been “offended by the personal nature of the original version of the journalist’s article,” the NBA should only allow “professional interactions between players and journalists, and that they should never become physical.”
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