{"id":485392,"date":"2026-02-25T08:38:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=485392"},"modified":"2026-02-25T08:38:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:38:49","slug":"indiana-pacers-carlisle-says-nba-didnt-consult-team-doctors-before-100k-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/indiana-pacers-carlisle-says-nba-didnt-consult-team-doctors-before-100k-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Pacers\u2019 Carlisle says NBA didn\u2019t consult team doctors before $100K fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1913\" data-end=\"2188\">Rick Carlisle said the NBA\u2019s investigators did not speak with the <strong data-start=\"1979\" data-end=\"1998\">Indiana Pacers\u2019<\/strong> team doctors or players before issuing a $100,000 fine for violating the league\u2019s player participation policy. Carlisle made the remarks during his weekly radio appearance on 107.5 The Fan.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2190\" data-end=\"2532\">Carlisle argued the assessment of <strong data-start=\"2224\" data-end=\"2243\">Aaron Nesmith\u2019s<\/strong> availability was handled without proper medical input from the team, despite documented findings from Indiana\u2019s medical and performance staff. He said the Pacers offered to have league investigators speak with their doctors, but that request was declined, calling the approach \u201cshocking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2534\" data-end=\"2866\">The NBA pushed back in a statement, saying Carlisle\u2019s description was inaccurate and that an independent physician led the medical review. The league also said the Pacers\u2019 general manager and senior vice president of sports medicine and performance were interviewed, and that Indiana confirmed it provided all information requested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana\u2019s coach questions the investigation process tied to the Aaron Nesmith case under the NBA\u2019s player participation policy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":376182,"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-485392","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\/03\/Indiana-Pacers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485392","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=485392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485392"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=485392"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=485392"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=485392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}