I’m MorantFriday’s 25-game suspension is among the longest given by the NBA for conduct on and off the field. The All-Star has been sidelined twice after an investigation over a second social media post by Morant featuring a firearm in three months. Other players who have been suspended include:
JA Morant, March – June 2023
Prior to Morant’s 25-game suspension, the 2019 No. 2 player was sidelined eight games by the NBA for a gun flash in a social media post the Memphis Grizzlies guard broadcasted himself from a Denver-area club in the early hours of March 4.
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Tyrek Evans, May 2019
The Indiana Pacers guard has been banned for at least two years for violating the league’s anti-drug policy. The 2010 NBA Rookie of the Year was eligible to apply for reinstatement in 2021
OJ MAYO, July 2016
The 2008 No. 3 overall pick was rejected and disqualified by the NBA for violating the league’s anti-drug program, the first player to receive that penalty in a decade. He was allowed to apply for reinstatement after two years but never played in the NBA again.
GILBERT ARENAS AND JARVIS CRITTENDON, January 2010
Arenas missed the last 50 games of the regular season after originally being suspended indefinitely, while Crittendon was suspended for 38 for bringing weapons into the Washington Wizards locker room on Dec. 21 and displaying unloaded weapons to each other after a fight on the team’s trip home from Phoenix. .
Chris “Birdman” Andersen, January 2006
He missed 193 games after being “sacked and ruled out” for the third violation of the league’s drug control program. He was sidelined until reinstated in March 2008 and won a championship with Miami in 2013.
Ron Artest, November 2004
It is now known as Metta Sandiford-Artest. He was suspended for 73 games and the playoffs for “malice in the minors” that began as a feud between Indiana Pacers forward and Detroit Pistons forward Ben Wallace. The NBA handed out some of the harshest penalties in its history by banning nine players for more than 140 games with Artest suspended, the strongest suspension ever imposed in a fight during a game. Wallace and Pacers players Stephen Jackson, Jermaine O’Neal and Anthony Johnson all received major suspensions.
Latrell Spruell, December 1997
His one-year suspension was the longest in league history at the time, for assaulting Golden State coach PJ Carlesimo. The Warriors have already finished the last three years of the All-Star guard’s $32 million, four-year contract. He came back and played five seasons with the Knicks and two with Minnesota.
Kermit Washington, December 1977
The Lakers forward was fined $10,000 and suspended 60 days for striking Rudy Tomjanovich of the Houston Rockets, slashing Tomjanovic’s face and nearly killing him. Fully recovered, Tomjanovich was an All-Star in 1979 and won two NBA titles as head coach of the Rockets in 1994 and 1995.
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