im usually 100% pro player... but them and teams took it too far.
last couple of seasons they were straight shytting on us...
Woj: Adam Silver taking charge on DNP-rest
BA commissioner Adam Silver arrived at July's board of governors meeting hoping to appeal to his owners' sense of partnership. Let's pursue a gentlemen's agreement on policing ourselves, he said, sparing the brunt of the burden from falling upon the league's head coaches.
In the Wynn Hotel ballroom on the Las Vegas Strip, Silver told the gathering, which included owners, team presidents and general managers, what they shouldn't want this season and beyond -- an implementation of "draconian rules" legislating the legitimacy of real or imagined injuries, especially in marquee television games.
It wouldn't be long until one ownership voice spoke out, Phoenix's Robert Sarver, insisting NBA teams would never work so cooperatively in today's cutthroat competitive environment. Witnesses say Sarver insisted that sitting multiple starters for games or All-Stars in national television matchups had to be met with real league office rules and real punishment -- or nothing would change.
While yes, the NBA is sensitive to the ticket-buying public losing out on the chance to see LeBron James or Stephen Curry on a once-a-season trip out of their conference, this is ultimately a television-revenue issue. The network games on ABC, ESPN and TNT were punctured when the Golden State Warriors, Cleveland Cavaliers and San Antonio Spurs turned national appearances into split-squad spring training games. Silver has been hellbent on a solution.
The NBA largely eliminated back-to-back games around teams' national television appearances. The plan to discipline teams resting players, along with NBA draft lottery reform, are both mandates the commissioner is pushing hard to get passed.
last couple of seasons they were straight shytting on us...
Woj: Adam Silver taking charge on DNP-rest
BA commissioner Adam Silver arrived at July's board of governors meeting hoping to appeal to his owners' sense of partnership. Let's pursue a gentlemen's agreement on policing ourselves, he said, sparing the brunt of the burden from falling upon the league's head coaches.
In the Wynn Hotel ballroom on the Las Vegas Strip, Silver told the gathering, which included owners, team presidents and general managers, what they shouldn't want this season and beyond -- an implementation of "draconian rules" legislating the legitimacy of real or imagined injuries, especially in marquee television games.
It wouldn't be long until one ownership voice spoke out, Phoenix's Robert Sarver, insisting NBA teams would never work so cooperatively in today's cutthroat competitive environment. Witnesses say Sarver insisted that sitting multiple starters for games or All-Stars in national television matchups had to be met with real league office rules and real punishment -- or nothing would change.
While yes, the NBA is sensitive to the ticket-buying public losing out on the chance to see LeBron James or Stephen Curry on a once-a-season trip out of their conference, this is ultimately a television-revenue issue. The network games on ABC, ESPN and TNT were punctured when the Golden State Warriors, Cleveland Cavaliers and San Antonio Spurs turned national appearances into split-squad spring training games. Silver has been hellbent on a solution.
The NBA largely eliminated back-to-back games around teams' national television appearances. The plan to discipline teams resting players, along with NBA draft lottery reform, are both mandates the commissioner is pushing hard to get passed.