DMo is on Inactive List -- Is a Suspension Coming? (Poll)

He can be suspended for failure to report in the required 2 days. He first must be put on the Active or Inactive List. Of course, putting him on Inactive List could just be a procedural thing to keep FREN active.

You decide. Here's the info. Tell us how you vote



Feigen got that list from the Official Scorer's Report, which is the official list of players that the teams submit.

here: NBA Official Scorer's Report Wednesday, December 07, 2016 Toyota Center, Houston, TX

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From Larry Coon

Larry Coon already made a point that DMo is considered under contract and can be disciplined

It’s important to note here that the rules for restricted free agency say that when a team issues a first refusal exercise notice, the player and team “…shall be deemed to have entered into a Player Contract." ... and the Rockets have all the rules related to player discipline for failure to report at their disposal -- Larry Coon http://cbafaq.com/blog/?p=381​

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From the NBA Constitution

SECTION 6
PLAYER LISTS AND ROSTERS​

6.05. Suspended List.

(a) Any Player on a Team’s Active List or Inactive List may be suspended by the Member employing him or by the Commissioner for failure to discharge his contractual obligations, or for failure to comply with training schedules or other disciplinary rules or procedures.

(c) Any Player who is suspended by his Team may be placed on his Team’s Active List or Inactive List during the term of the suspension. If a Player has been suspended by his Team for more than three (3) games, the Member may, following the third game of the suspension, transfer the Player from the Active List or Inactive List to the Suspended List and substitute a Player in his stead.
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From the CBA

Here is the compensation that can be removed from the contract. It reads like a Suspension is not necessary, his refusal to render services is enough.

ARTICLE VI
PLAYER CONDUCT​

Section 1. General.

... when a player fails or refuses, without proper and reasonable cause or excuse, to render the services required by a Player Contract or this Agreement, or when a player is, for proper cause, suspended by his Team or the NBA in accordance with the terms of such Contract or this Agreement, the Current Base Compensation payable to the player for the year of the Contract during which such refusal or failure and/or suspension occurs may be reduced (or, in the case of a suspension, shall be reduced) by 1/110th of the player’s Base Compensation for each missed Exhibition, Regular Season or Playoff game.
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Here Coon is pointing what appears to be a 30-day time bomb. Reads like DMo can pack his bags and go fishing in January, and not get credit for the season, if he's still holding out.

Further From Larry Coon

And it could get worse for him. The CBA also says a player shall not receive credit for a year of service for any year in which he “…withholds playing services called for by a Player Contract or this Agreement for more than thirty (30) days after the Season begins.” -- Larry Coon http://cbafaq.com/blog/?p=381​

 

Added another Clause to the OP from the CBA detailing Compensation at risk, plus just to show how it stresses once again that refusal to render services is written all over this CBA, NBA Constitution and in the Uniform Player Contract itself.

 

Oh, it can get much worse. [Below added to OP]

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Here Coon is pointing what appears to be a 30-day time bomb. Reads like DMo can pack his bags and go fishing in January, and not get credit for the season, if he's still holding out.

From Larry Coon

And it could get worse for him. The CBA also says a player shall not receive credit for a year of service for any year in which he “…withholds playing services called for by a Player Contract or this Agreement for more than thirty (30) days after the Season begins.” -- Larry Coon http://cbafaq.com/blog/?p=381
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Coon's CBA quote says nearly the same thing, but he ellipses it out. For him to pull that specifically for his DMo article means the 30 days is in play.

I'll try to get clarification.

 

Clarification. Coon quotes is about any season, the 30 days means that the one nullified doesn't count towards tenure or completion of a year of a term....it's like it never happened. That other quote is about the specific last season prior to Player becoming a free agent. I deleted it from the OP.