{"id":507645,"date":"2026-01-31T14:18:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=507645"},"modified":"2026-01-31T14:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:18:22","slug":"philadelphia-star-george-banned-25-matches-for-improper-medication","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/philadelphia-star-george-banned-25-matches-for-improper-medication\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia star George banned 25 matches for improper medication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Basketball Association shared today that Paul George has been banned without salary for 25 matches for violating the league\u2019s anti-drug policy.<\/p>\n<p>Philly\u2019s star revealed that after the news about his suspension made the headlines: \u201cOver the last few seasons, I have talked about the importance of mental health, and during seeking help for such problems, I made the mistake of taking a banned substance. I take full responsibility for what happened, and I want to apologize to the 76ers, my teammates, and all the supporters of our team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will use the time while I\u2019m out to make sure that I recover both physically and mentally so when I\u2019m back, I will be able to help Philadelphia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paul\u2019s suspension will start with today\u2019s match against the Pelicans, and he could return on March 25<sup>th<\/sup> in Philly for the game vs. the Bulls \u2013 there will be 10 regular campaign matches remaining for his team.<\/p>\n<p>The 76ers will save over 5 million dollars in luxury tax payments as part of George\u2019s suspension without pay, and that would help them to keep the roster.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Paul George has been suspended without pay for 25 games for violating the terms of the NBA\/NBPA Anti-Drug Program, the league announced. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DjE3bwosHD\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/DjE3bwosHD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YahooSports\/status\/2017641378142966120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 31, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Basketball Association shared today that Paul George has been banned without salary for 25 matches for violating the league\u2019s anti-drug policy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":507646,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17988,16840],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[18734,17913],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The 76ers superstar will be suspended for 25 games by the league.","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\/507645"}],"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=507645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507647,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507645\/revisions\/507647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507645"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=507645"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=507645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}