The NBA is expected to approve new guidelines this week involving rest for star players, tweets ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
The Competition Committee has endorsed a stricter policy on sitting out players in nationally televised games and resting more than one star on the same night, according to Wojnarowski, who adds that the Board of Governors will vote on the measure on Wednesday.
If approved, the league will be able to impose larger fines on teams that violate the new rule, sources tell Wojnarowski (Twitter link). The fines would be $100K for a first violation, $250K for a second violation and $1MM more than the last penalty for each additional violation, according to Woj’s sources.
A star will be defined as anyone who has made an All-Star or All-NBA team over the past three seasons, tweets Shams Charania of The Athletic.
Load management has become a more common practice in recent years, and the NBA has been searching for ways to get its best players on the court more often, especially in marquee games. One provision of the new Collective Bargaining Agreement requires players to participate in at least 65 games to be eligible for All-NBA or All-Defensive honors as well as major postseason awards.
Rules based on if a game is nationally televised? Rules based on who is a “star”. Incredibly stupid.
Basically, don’t mess with that TV money.
Yeah LeBron
How is it stupid? Nobody gives a damm if the 3rd string guard sits out. People pay to see the stars. It’s just how it is. Having the NBA’s best on the court for nationally televised games instead of a random Tuesday game in Charlotte makes complete sense.
Crazy how much crying happens in the comments on this site.
Actually, the star thing is something I wonder about as well. What constitutes that? That kind of fits into what I was saying below where sometimes it’s better to not have certain guys out there, depending on matchup.
…I guess I missed that part of the article, but I still dont agree with the idea that it somehow automatically determines results of games, when we’ve seen over and over that it doesn’t. Also, the fact that the media determines those awards makes it a kind of a ridiculous concept, especially how that somehow can effect players livelihoods, in terms of what they can and cant be eligible to earn.
I still think all awards should be determined by assistant coaches and front offices, and nobody should be allowed to vote for their own player
It’s a funny concept given the NBA ASG is a bit harder to make than most other sports. Some stars will sit and some won’t.
players have become wimps nowadays. who needs a rest after doing something for 40 minutes a day? try telling your boss you need a couple of days off because you worked 40 minutes. it’s absurd.
I played pickup Fri evening and didnt lose. My muscles are still sore today from it.
Let’s see between games, practice, travel, team meetings, team obligations, conditioning and physical therapy 40 minutes wouldn’t even begin to cover it and 40 hours in a week during the season would be the bare minimum.
Not saying that the decent to great players don’t get compensated well for it but it’s not as easy as most would think. On the other hand G-leaguers get far less than I do for my job and probably do as much or more actual work.
Oh my wah wah wah, 40 hours a week? Doing the same thing theyve been doing their whole lives? B freaking S they need a break! Getting paid millions of dollars to practice, travel to a bunch of great cities, and play basketball? God that sounds awful… i dont even get paid for my 30 minute lunch break, and im doing manual labor. Where is my load management and 40 mil paycheck?
Go play in the NBA then Durt.
Are you solely responsible for bringing 11 billion dollars in revenue a year into your corporation?
Another absolute idiot. You think these guys do nothing all the time except the 40 mins they are on the court? Lmfao
I was a D1 athlete taco lol! I know what its like you people act like its hard cause youre fat and lazy! These guys did the same thing during school and had schoolwork on top of all that and guess what? No load management cause there is no money to be made (at least not in the past) these guys have more free time than they did in college ball and they didnt complain then, why now?
And make tens of millions a year? The entitled generation.
Folks, come on. 1) The teams are behind load management just as much as the players — they want to keep their stars from getting injured. 2) It’s not “oh boo hoo, they’re working too hard,” it’s “oh no, our star money-making player got injured in an unimportant game and now he’s out the rest of the season.” And for chrissakes, the owners make way more money than the players for wayyy less work … if the players make less, that money just stays in the owners’ pockets.
If this has any chance of working, fines would have to be handed down to the player(s) doing the not playing, not [just] the team. And every team has medical personnel willing to bend the truth and say ‘Johnny Allstar has a sore foot/back/ego and can’t go tonight’ to get around the fines.
Or, they’ll just sit the previous or next night after a Nat’l TV game.
Of course certain teams seem to be on Nat’l TV all the time, so they’ll ask for and be granted waivers to sit their stars anyway and the rule won’t mean jack in the end anyway.
I just dont get how you determine this stuff, when it seems to me as though it is often done for matchup purposes, and also to use different rotations to prepare for situations where you may need to make those adjustments in the times that eventually matter.
I guess there are some egregious situations with some teams, and sometimes it is really annoying when youre at the arena and find out certain guys are out, but it’s been proven that player sitting doesnt just equal loss, or loss of quality of game, and I think the expectation should be there that it’s a physical game, and sometimes guys are out injured. It’s not talked about at all in baseball when guys take days off, and that is just as annoying, and usually more impactful on the game
This concept feels more about people still thinking the league is how it was 20+ years ago, and people thinking everyone not named a certain few players is somehow scrubby… it’s why they act so shocked when those players play well
Kawhi gonna be broke
Also, 1 of the things I do think is something to consider, in favor of thos issue is a lot of these guys that sit out still practice or go through shootaround, etc, and historically people have always said the games are the lighter load than practices, so in that sense, I get the idea of trying to do something about that, but again, my previous sentiment still stands, and probably fits into that
Guys can still practice, but if we’re trying to accomplish certain things, it makes sense to hold them from certain games
GOOD! Load management is the one of the dumber things in sports. Guys in the 80’s and 90’s played most if not all 82 games and were just fine. Players these days are primadonnas and have been convinced they don’t need to work too hard.
That’s the way of the world (yow). Do as little as possible, demand ridiculous wages and cry if you don’t get them. Then protest. If that doesn’t work, riot.
‘Murica was founded on those principles…
It would be refreshing if ONCE during the Stern-Silver Era an issue the league has created through its nonsense could be addressed by eliminating the nonsense. As opposed to adding more nonsense.
The league should put load management to the test by reversing the devaluation of the regular season that created it. Teams that truly believe sitting a player out periodically makes the player’s body less susceptible to injury when he is playing, will likely continue with load management. Teams that don’t truly believe that (and just want the guy playing fewer games so there are fewer games where he can get hurt) will likely dispense with it. I give it two years before the word load management disappears from the NBA lexicon.
How do you create value in something with that many games?
Have a 20 game season?
Load management might get renamed but it’s as ingrained as the 3 point shot…
So the teams that want a title will just pay for an extra rest day for their stars…
This is like saying…
“Now instead of taking 5 cents from them we are taking 20 cents…”
What a joke the NBA has become with it’s discipline…