{"id":131311,"date":"2025-06-28T10:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T10:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/131311\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T10:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T10:40:16","slug":"nba-fines-jazz-100000-for-holding-lauri-markkanen-out-of-recent-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/131311\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA fines Jazz $100,000 for holding Lauri Markkanen out of recent games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The NBA fined the Utah Jazz $100,000 on Wednesday for violating the league\u2019s player participation policy after failing to make leading scorer Lauri Markkanen available for recent games.<\/p>\n<p>The league said it was penalizing the team for failing to make Markkanen available at Washington on March 5 as well as other games the past few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The 7-footer from Finland had not played since a win over Houston on Feb. 22. Markkanen, averaging 19.3 points, was available for Wednesday\u2019s game at Memphis after previously being listed as questionable due to a lower back injury.<\/p>\n<p>Utah was last in the Western Conference at 15-50. The Washington Wizards were the only team with a worse record at 13-51.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The NBA fined the Utah Jazz $100,000 on Wednesday for violating the league\u2019s player&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3785],"tags":[7,3402,292,423,976,6,446,589,66,6007,422,427,3972],"class_list":{"0":"post-131311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-jazz","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-finland","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-jazz","12":"tag-lauri-markkanen","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nba-basketball","15":"tag-ny-state-wire","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-ut-state-wire","18":"tag-utah","19":"tag-utah-jazz","20":"tag-utahjazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114760569776398071","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}