{"id":433745,"date":"2023-04-21T19:25:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T23:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=433745"},"modified":"2023-04-21T19:25:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T23:25:12","slug":"rivers-claims-nba-must-focus-on-provocative-star-players","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rivers-claims-nba-must-focus-on-provocative-star-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivers claims NBA must focus on provocative star players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia 76ers head coach Doc Rivers defended Joel Embiid for his action against Nic Claxton from <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/brooklyn-nets\/\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to say this, and I probably shouldn&#8217;t: I didn&#8217;t think Draymond should have been suspended,&#8221; Doc announced today, referring to the Warriors star&#8217;s penalty for stomping on the Sacramento Kings&#8217; Domantas Sabonis. &#8220;And I think the league is setting up a very dangerous precedent right now, and this is not me campaigning, and I&#8217;m dead serious.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; If we&#8217;re going to start punishing the retaliators, not the instigators, then we&#8217;ve got a problem in this league.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;Didn&#8217;t think Draymond should have gotten suspended and I think the league is setting up a very dangerous precedent right now&#8230; If we&#8217;re gonna start punishing the retaliators and not the instigators, then we got a problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Agree with Doc Rivers? ?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LBvEekYgC9\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/LBvEekYgC9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClutchPointsApp\/status\/1649529937152409601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The star of 76ers and MVP Finalist Joel kicked the Nets player after Claxton stood over him. Embiid got a flagrant foul for his action, while Nic got a technical foul for teasing the Philly player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia 76ers head coach Doc Rivers defended Joel Embiid for his action against Nic Claxton from Brooklyn Nets. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to say this, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":433746,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16842,17837,16840],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[18953,17913,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The head coach said that the league must act on goading superstar players.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433745"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=433745"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=433745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}