How do professional sports leagues handle the process of fining athletes and coaches for infractions, from a technical standpoint? Which of these is true?
- The player has to write a check (or pay cash money) directly to, say, the commissioner’s office.
- The fine is garnished from the player’s paycheck over an extended period of time.
- The player doesn’t get paid at all until the entire amount he would’ve gotten paid is collected by the league, and then he gets paid again.
- Something else.
Other questions occur to me. Let’s take an extreme hypothetical scenario and say that the player is fined so severely that not only does it eat up his entire year’s salary, but he has to actually pay the league for the privilege of playing. Would the league go so far as to take this matter into debt collection?
Recently, former New York Knick Renaldo Balkman was fined a considerable amount of money, and banned for life, from the Philippine Basketball Association. If he’s being banned for life anyway, what possible incentive could he have for paying the fine?