{"id":1159,"date":"2016-10-02T16:33:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T20:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2017-01-04T12:29:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T17:29:04","slug":"darren-collison-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2016\/10\/02\/darren-collison-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Collison Suspended for Domestic Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>NBA<\/strong> has suspended <strong>Sacramento Kings<\/strong> guard <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/collida01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darren Collison<\/a><\/strong> for the first eight games of the upcoming season, <strong>Marc Stein<\/strong> of <strong>ESPN<\/strong> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The NBA will suspend Kings guard Darren Collison for the first eight games of the NBA season, according to league sources<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/782670691698999296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 2, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Collison pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge after a he was involved\u00a0in a domestic violence incident with his wife in May.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Darren Collison Suspended for Domestic Violence<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNSteinLine\/status\/782671054321836033?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stein later tweeted<\/a> that Collison will be able to participate in all practices and play in all of Sacramento&#8217;s preseason games; he&#8217;ll only\u00a0be kept out of the eight regular season games.<\/p>\n<p>Collison&#8217;s domestic violence case leaves questions about his next NBA contract. The seven-year veteran out of <strong>UCLA<\/strong> is in the final year of his deal this season, meaning that he&#8217;ll be an unrestricted free agent in the 2017 off-season. It may be difficult for Collison, a back-up point guard, to get another contract, given his baggage.<\/p>\n<p>Collison averaged 14 points and 4.3 assists in 30 minutes per game for the Kings last season. He played in 74 games and started\u00a015. The eight-game suspension will keep him out until Sacramento&#8217;s game against the <strong>New Orleans Pelicans<\/strong> on November 8th.<\/p>\n<p>With Collison out of the lineup, the Kings don&#8217;t have many good options at point guard. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/l\/lawsoty01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ty Lawson<\/a><\/strong>, who&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-nuggets-ty-lawson-arrest-20150714-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">had plenty of trouble with the law himself<\/a>, may\u00a0be the team&#8217;s starter on opening night. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/f\/farmajo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan Farmar<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cousiis01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Isaiah Cousins<\/a><\/strong> are the only other point guards on the roster.<\/p>\n<p>Collison&#8217;s actions\u00a0continue\u00a0Sacramento&#8217;s seemingly never-ending cycle of dysfunction. The Kings will likely look to\u00a0get rid of Collison\u00a0as soon as possible, either\u00a0through a mid-season trade or by letting him walk\u00a0in 2017 free agency.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/460906092\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 95.454545% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/460906092?et=hFfCCiveSv9RLEG7o_PJTQ&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=8H0GuRp-Tcb3bjibNs9Zcfu5iJI5yi4CAUgxtORq-Fs=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"567\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darren Collison suspended: the NBA has suspended the Sacramento Kings guard for the first eight games of the season, after a domestic abuse case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":946,"featured_media":1160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,62,3],"tags":[65,387,96,202,304],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kings","category-nba","category-news","tag-basketball","tag-darren-collison","tag-nba","tag-nba-news","tag-sacramento-kings"],"modified_by":"Lior Kozai (Managing Editor)","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}