From Nick Friedell at ESPN:

The Brooklyn Nets have been fined $25,000 “for failing to comply with league policies governing injury reporting,” the NBA announced Thursday.

The fine comes in the wake of the Nets resting Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and a slew of other players on Dec. 10, the second night of a back-to-back for Brooklyn. The Nets ended up resting eight players, including Ben Simmons, Nic Claxton, Seth Curry, Royce O’Neale, Joe Harris and T.J. Warren.

The Nets ended up winning the game shorthanded, pulling off an impressive 136-133 victory over Indiana despite missing their entire rotation.

Looking back at the box score for this game, which was played in Indy 24 hours after a home win over the Raptors, the Nets got 33 points off the bench from Cam Thomas and started a group of Markieff Morris, Kessler Edwards, Dayron Sharpe, Patty Mills, and Edmond Sumner.

The real takeaway here is that the NBA regular season is a joke and back-to-backs need to go away forever. Nobody gives a shit about any of these games. Look at how little juice there is for the Sixers right now despite the fact that they’ve won three straight and get GSW at home tonight, albeit without Steph Curry.

Load management has a cost, which is apparently $25,000. But instead of addressing concerns about the packed regular season schedule, the NBA would rather just half-heartedly fine teams. This is the same as the league picking and choosing which franchises to punish for “tampering,” when you and I know that every squad is doing it.

This feels like the correct take to me: