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Despite a slow start to the NBA campaign, one Utah Jazz rookie is performing brilliantly and deserves an apology from the Philadelphia 76ers.

The NBA fined the Jazz and Pacers for resting players in an attempt to lose games, but they're hardly the only teams doing so this season.

The NBA has fined the two franchises for "the management of their rosters during recent games." In the vernacular, they were tanking.

Jrue Holiday scored a season-high 31 points and Donovan Clingan added 23 points and 18 rebounds as the Portland Trail Blazers beat Utah 135-119, hours after the Jazz lost Jaren Jackson Jr. to knee surgery and were fined $500,000 by the NBA for ...

Led by Chance Trujillo's 14 points, the Utah Tech Trailblazers defeated the Utah Valley Wolverines 81-77 on Thursday ...

The Cal Baptist Lancers defeated the Southern Utah Thunderbirds 83-66 on Thursday led by Dominique Daniels Jr.'s 32 points.

Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith is publicly ripping the NBA over the $500,000 fine that they handed down to his team this week.

Sen. John Curtis of Utah said he opposes Jeremy Carl for a State Department post in part because of his "anti-Israel views and insensitive remarks about the Jewish people."

In an apparent crackdown on tanking NBA teams, the league has fined the Utah Jazz and Indiana Pacers six-figure sums for removing key players from winnable games.

The NBA on Thursday night fined the Utah Jazz $500,000 and the Indiana Pacers $100,000 due to what the league called "management of their rosters for recent games."