The NBA has suspended Trail Blazers guard C.J. McCollum for one game without pay for leaving the bench during an altercation during a preseason contest, the league announced today in a press release. The incident took place during Wednesday’s game in Phoenix.
The Trail Blazers are scheduled to return to Phoenix to play the Suns on Wednesday in their first game of the season, so McCollum will be ineligible to appear in that contest. McCollum’s season will begin next Friday in Indiana against the Pacers.
The suspension will cost McCollum $165K in salary, tweets Bobby Marks of ESPN.
Man Kiki Vandeweghe and Adam Silver are stupid as hell for this decision, but I’m glad they got CJ mad so he has another chip on his shoulder this season. Not like we even need him against a super weak Suns team who probably lobbied for the suspension.