Over the last several weeks, the Utah Jazz have had a lot of players on their injury reports. While they list official reasons for why players are missing games, it's not hard to understand why these players are being held out: it's all part of the tank.
The Jazz are entitled to approach the season however they want. However, the NBA clearly doesn't consider these injury absences a coincidence when a team like the Jazz consistently load up their injury reports. They made that clear when they fined the Jazz 100k for violating the league's Player Participation policy, per Chris Haynes.
Utah Jazz have been fined $100,000 for violating the Player Participation Policy when the team failed to make Lauri Markkanen available for a game on March 5. pic.twitter.com/hKbD9c7UrX
— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) March 12, 2025