{"id":433053,"date":"2025-03-15T08:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T07:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=433053"},"modified":"2025-03-15T08:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T07:12:08","slug":"nba-investigating-thunder-for-benching-starters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-investigating-thunder-for-benching-starters\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA investigating Thunder for benching starters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"955\" data-end=\"1290\">The <strong data-start=\"959\" data-end=\"966\">NBA<\/strong> is reviewing the <strong data-start=\"984\" data-end=\"1009\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/strong> for a possible violation of the league\u2019s <strong data-start=\"1051\" data-end=\"1082\">player participation policy<\/strong>. The focus is on their <strong data-start=\"1106\" data-end=\"1135\">March 7 win over Portland<\/strong>, where <strong data-start=\"1143\" data-end=\"1170\">Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1172\" data-end=\"1190\">Jalen Williams<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1192\" data-end=\"1209\">Chet Holmgren<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1211\" data-end=\"1228\">Luguentz Dort<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1230\" data-end=\"1252\">Isaiah Hartenstein<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"1258\" data-end=\"1275\">Cason Wallace<\/strong> all sat out.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1292\" data-end=\"1451\">Despite missing their key players, the Thunder still won <strong data-start=\"1349\" data-end=\"1359\">107-89<\/strong>, led by <strong data-start=\"1368\" data-end=\"1396\">Aaron Wiggins\u2019 30 points<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1401\" data-end=\"1448\">Jaylin Williams\u2019 first career triple-double<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1453\" data-end=\"1621\">The <strong data-start=\"1457\" data-end=\"1484\">NBA recently fined Utah<\/strong> for sitting <strong data-start=\"1497\" data-end=\"1516\">Lauri Markkanen<\/strong> and is also investigating the <strong data-start=\"1547\" data-end=\"1569\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/strong> for resting <strong data-start=\"1582\" data-end=\"1597\">Paul George<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1602\" data-end=\"1618\">Tyrese Maxey<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1623\" data-end=\"1639\"><em data-start=\"1623\" data-end=\"1637\">Source: ESPN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA is reviewing the Oklahoma City Thunder for a possible violation of the league\u2019s player participation policy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-433053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Oklahoma-City-Thunder.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433053"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=433053"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=433053"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=433053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}