Practice of benching a player who may be engaged in trade negotiations will no longer be practiced

The new regulation prevents the Blazers and Lillard from agreeing for him to stay away from the team while Portland waits for a trade offer that it thinks to be acceptable, according to ESPN’s Bobby Marks, a former Nets executive. It wasn’t apparent whether either party was interested in going down that road, but Marks says it’s no longer an option. The NBA will intervene and say that it will fine you and that fine will be large if Portland and Lillard decide that we’re going to shut you down, according to Marks. We’ll watch how things unfold with James Harden and Damian Lillard (who has asked Philadelphia for a trade). . The practice of benching a player who may be engaged in trade negotiations will no longer be practiced.