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NBA star center Joel Embiid received a three-game suspension from the league after shoving a reporter after a game over the weekend.
On Tuesday (Nov. 5), the National Basketball Association announced that Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid will be suspended for three games after an altercation with Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Marcus Haynes following the team's game last Saturday (Nov. 2). . The suspension means he will miss the Sixers' games against the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers and Charlotte Hornets.
“Mutual respect is paramount to the relationship between the players and the media in the NBA,” said Joe Dumars, the NBA's executive vice president of basketball operations. “While we understand that Joel was offended by the personal nature of the reporter's original version of the column, interactions must remain professional on both sides and can never become physical.”
The incident was which started because of Haynes' column, which referenced Embiid's late brother and his son, both named Arthur, while questioning the center's effort during the preseason and during his multiple career absences of. Embiid, who was on the gold medal-winning United States men's Olympic team in Paris last summer, left to deal with minor swelling in his knee. “The next time you raise my dead brother and my son again, you'll see what I'm going to do to you and I'll have to… live with the consequences,” Embiid told Hayes when he confronted him.
Embiid, who was set to make his season debut in the Lakers game, will appear with the Sixers as they face off against the New York Knicks on Nov. 12 in the first round of the NBA's in-season tournament now known as the NBA. Emirates Cup. Haynes apologized for the comments and removed them from the article, but Embiid rejected the apology.
