{"id":573347,"date":"2026-01-31T17:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T17:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/573347\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T17:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T17:49:14","slug":"nba-suspends-76ers-paul-george-for-25-games-for-violating-anti-drug-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/573347\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA suspends 76ers\u2019 Paul George for 25 games for violating anti-drug policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"76ers forward Paul George (right) shoots in front of Kings guard Nique Clifford (left).\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/USATSI_28115508-1024x683.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"responsive\" class=\"image-next-root\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-fit:cover\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Article_ImageCaptionCredit__mkXi_ article-image-caption-credit Typography_body1__xfKuc inherit Typography_base__jzSqr\">Paul George&#8217;s suspension begins with Saturday&#8217;s game against the New Orleans Pelicans. Bill Streicher \/ Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Jan. 31, 2026Updated 12:20 pm EST<\/p>\n<p>The NBA has suspended Philadelphia 76ers forward Paul George for 25 games \u201cfor violating the terms of the NBA\/NBPA Anti-Drug Program,\u201d the league announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>George\u2019s suspension begins with Saturday\u2019s game against the New Orleans Pelicans.<\/p>\n<p>The nine-time All-Star is averaging 16.0 points and 3.7 assists while shooting 42.4 percent from the field in his second season with Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul George&#8217;s suspension begins with Saturday&#8217;s game against the New Orleans Pelicans. Bill Streicher \/ Imagn Images Jan.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3796],"tags":[7,6,478,470,4073,4072,675,207],"class_list":{"0":"post-573347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-pelicans","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-new-orleans","11":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","12":"tag-neworleans","13":"tag-neworleanspelicans","14":"tag-pelicans","15":"tag-philadelphia-76ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115990977903028664","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573347","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=573347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}