Yes, he is allowed to play in the pre-season games.
Thanks. Nice to have a simple, cut and dry thread
but is this really fair and just? games are games, it is is patently unfair to the celtics if miles transgressed the nba rules as a trailblazer but the celtics have to pay the price.
i think stern should pro-rate pre-season games and exchange them for regular season games. for example, for every 10 minutes of pre-season game, miles' regular season reduction should be 5 minutes.
or.....
why do the celtics have to suffer for the shortcomings of portland's management by having miles suspended for celtics games? i think the celtics should be able to pick one portland player to miss a game for each game missed by miles.
or....
why not have miles miss the FINAL 10 games of his career?
or...
better yet. why not allow him to miss the 10 games by spreading the minutes out over the season? 10 games = 480 minutes, but miles doesnt play for 48 minutes! that is not fair. so, stern should only ban him from playing 7.34 minutes a game for the first half of the season! and then make up the rest by averaging the remaing minutes over the remaining games, minus the average playing time he has compiled for the first half of the season!!!
so.... let's put to rest forever all our hopes of ever a "cut and dry thread."