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>Basically the CBA says if there is a firearm on team premises (or on a team plane) that’s an automatic 50-game suspension. That’s why the league is trying to ascertain where was the gun before the Instagram video and all other manner of questions tied to that.
by lopea182
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Well holy shit.
So Ja is going to have to convince them that he just borrowed someone else’s gun in Colorado.
Otherwise, obviously, he brought it on the plane.
Ja Warrant
Tyus Jones ecstatic right now
50 games would be one of the longest non drug suspensions, right? Crazy it’s even coming to this.
Ja better find someone he knows in Denver to be the fall guy because I don’t see how else it got there.
Oh yeah he fucked fucked
Wasn’t he with friends in the video? One of them will say it’s theirs.
Highly doubt this happens
Grizzlies 9/11
Let’s watch as the NBA scrambles to make an excuse not to enforce the rules to make sure they don’t lose money from a star player being a dumbass even though it might be the wake up call he needs.
This is like if AI made it a point to go back to that bowling alley and start shit the day before signing his first max.
50 games is wild. That’s a lot of next season as well.
The scenes if they suspend Ja for 50 games man.
I’m sure there’s another player more deserving of their own Nike shoe and big Powerade sponsorship lmao
“Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking glocks on this motherfucking plane!” — Adam Silver
Damn does that include playoff games?
What is it about nba players and controversies as a road player in Denver ? Not like it’s some massive party city
👏👏👏👏 50 Game Suspension is what’s needed for him to wake the fuck up
But he said they were fine in the West
Lmao – we all know that the gun was on the plane, and we all know there will be a fall guy that magically wasn’t on the plane
Why cant this dude just chill out or something, this is why you appreciate guys like zion who just watches naruto and balls out the next day.
Luke Kennard has been such a terrible influence to this team.
Suspend him for the rest of the season so he can go play gangster in his mansion.
Best outcome would be that the stupid little pea-shooter Ja was holding like an old posh British woman holds a tea-cup was in fact just a toy-lighter.
I don’t see where the CBA says that.
The [CBA](https://cosmic-s3.imgix.net/3c7a0a50-8e11-11e9-875d-3d44e94ae33f-2017-NBA-NBPA-Collective-Bargaining-Agreement.pdf) (Article VI, Section 9) says that violating the league’s gun policy “shall be considered conduct prejudicial to the NBA under Article 35(d) of the NBA Constitution and By-Laws, and shall therefore subject the player to discipline by the NBA in accordance with such Article.”
Article 35(d) of the (most recent publicly-available) [NBA Constitution](https://ak-static-int.nba.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2015/12/NBA-Constitution-and-By-Laws.pdf) says:
>The Commissioner shall have the power to suspend for a definite or indefinite period, or to impose a fine not exceeding $1,000,000, or inflict both such suspension and fine upon any person who, in his opinion, shall have been guilty of conduct prejudicial or detrimental to the Association.
It’s possible that there’s a new version of the Constitution that lays out an automatic 50-game ban, but it’s also possible that Stein is conflating league precedent under a discretionary clause with an automatic trigger. Arenas and Crittenden were both suspended 50 games for the 2010 incident, but there was nothing magical about the number. They were suspended for the rest of the season, and there happened to be 50 games left in the season.
In the great words of Red Forman, “What a dumbass”
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