Marshall has been hit with a four-game suspension, Nurkic will probably be suspended for 3 video games, and Washington will serve a one-game suspension, in line with the NBA.
Nurkic was known as for an offensive foul with 9:02 remaining within the third quarter of Friday’s sport and started heading towards his basket earlier than turning again and exchanging phrases with Marshall and Washington. The incident escalated when Nurkic struck Marshall within the facet of the top. Marshall responded by throwing a punch that linked with Nurkic’s face because the Suns huge man was shoved to the ground by Washington (Twitter video hyperlink).
In keeping with the league, Marshall “tried to additional have interaction Nurkic in a hostile method within the hall outdoors the locker rooms” after the gamers have been ejected from the sport. That’s presumably why the Mavs ahead bought the longest suspension of the bunch.
Washington will serve his suspension on Saturday night time when the Mavs go to Portland. Along with lacking that sport, Marshall will sit out Monday’s contest in Sacramento and Wednesday’s in Houston, in addition to Dallas’ house sport vs. Cleveland subsequent Friday.
Nurkic will start serving his three-game ban on Saturday when the Suns play in Golden State. He’ll additionally miss video games vs. Memphis on Tuesday and in Indiana subsequent Saturday.
As Bobby Marks of ESPN tweets, Marshall’s four-game suspension will value him $236,452 of his $8,571,429 wage, whereas Nurkic will forfeit $375K,000 of his $18,125,000 wage. These figures are primarily based on every participant dropping 1/145th of his whole wage for every sport of the suspension.
As a result of his suspension is only for one sport, Washington will solely surrender 1/174th of his $15.5M wage, which works out to $89,080, Marks notes.
The Mavericks and the Suns will obtain tax variance credit price 50% of the full forfeited wage, barely decreasing their projected end-of-season luxurious tax funds, Marks provides (by way of Twitter).
