NEW YORK — Sacramento Kings centre Dewayne Dedmon has been fined $50,000 by the NBA for public comments about wanting a trade.
The league made the announcement on Thursday, calling the comments detrimental to the NBA and its teams. He made the request in a recent interview with The Sacramento Bee.
Before the Kings played the Denver Nuggets on Sunday, he talked about wanting a trade, saying “I would like to be traded. I haven’t been playing, so I would like to go somewhere where my talents are appreciated.”
Under the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement, players cannot make public demands for a trade. The 30-year-old Dedmon signed a three-year, $40 million deal with the Kings in the off-season.
Last season, the league fined then-New Orleans Pelicans star Anthony Davis $50,000 after his agent made a public trade request.
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