The nba to change its Load Management rules. NBA teams are no longer allowed to rest two star players at the same time. 1 million dollar plus fines

[horizon]

Why do people keep talking about the Pelicans? Those idiots get injured, they aren't lazy fukks like the Clippers

 

[SithLawd]

Capitalizing “load” though

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Always trips me out how you 9 to 5 ass clowns get all bent out of shape when ppl question load management from players with 9 figure contracts.

"These players are playing too much!!!!"

STFU and just make sure YOU back in your work area after your 10 minute break

 

[Primetime]

I don't defend the players because most players don't mind playing. I've seen KD hoop in sweltering heat where all he could inhale is weed smoke. There's players who work out and the games become intense and it's supposed to just be fun and a way to stay in shape. The reality of the situation is that gone are the days of appreciating what players do during regular seasons because fans think regular seasons take too long and are meaningless, especially when you don't win. Add to the fact that it feels like players are more physically fragile than ever and you get a major group of fans who get hyped for opening night, hyped for Christmas and then wanna fast forward to April. If load management/tanking/whatever is your best route to one day win an NBA title, that's your business. If my reaction to that is to tune you out, that's also my business, but the Knicks can put out you, me, and three others in this thread and Knicks fans will still pay obscene prices to watch us hoop.


The people who cry about load management are the same ones who think we need expansion because the talent pool is so deep. Teams do this stuff because they're trying to avoid those same fans wondering why some injury prone star was out in the 4th quarter of an otherwise meaningless game and heard a pop in his knee. Same fans who could watch a player play a bunch of time and then when he's gassed in the playoffs, get mad at the player. When everything but the title is disincentivized, the glory of doing regular season type stuff wears off. The only major reason why anyone should be pissed if a player sits out is if that costs your team a chance to win that game, but that's usually not the case.

I can almost sympathize with the fan that came all the way from India and paid all this money only to go to the arena and someone they wanted to see isn't there. It sucks, but it also sucks if that player was hurt or was trying to play hurt and made the situation worse and now cost your team a chance at a title. Jokic missed 13 games last year. I'm sure every Nugget fan who was present for the games he missed got over it when he held up the LOB Trophy. I'm sure all the Keldon Johnson stans in San Antonio said to themselves "I get it now" when they won the lottery. If your team clinched a playoff spot or top seed, bytching about why a team rested their players at the very end of the season to gear up for the playoffs is just selfish. Now, if you're tuning in and you're bytching about why a player ain't playing on a Thursday night in January, change the fukking channel. If @CHICAGO can watch The Big 3 every week to see what Royce White wrote on his head, an actual NBA fan can tune in and see whether someone takes advantage of the opportunity to play and see if he's worth a damn.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

I like the rule, if it's real. Players are still able to get the rest they need, teams just can't throw games by resting everyone at once.

In fact, I would even expand it, because multiple all-star players only impacts a few decisions. I would take the top 3 ppg guys on every team and say those teams can only rest one of them at a time.

 

[Benjamin Sisko]

This was made specifically for KD and the Suns. They hated that Beal trade of getting a superstar for basically nothing.

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

What about at the end of the game? You can't take the star players out so they don't get hurt when the game is basically over and there's no reason for them to be out there anymore

 

[Sccit]

NO ONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO “REST”.. PERIOD

BARRING AN INJURY, IF U DONT PLAY THAT GAME THEN U SHOULD LOSE THAT GAMES PORTION OF YOUR SALARY

THE NBA IS HARD TO WATCH IN THE REGULAR SEASON BECAUSE PLAYERS DONT TAKE PRIDE IN PLAYING EVERY NIGHT THE WAY THEY USED TO

NO SUCH THING AS LOAD MANAGEMENT BEFORE BRON BECAME FACE OF THE LEAGUE

LETS GET BACK TO “I LOVE THIS STUFF”

 

[TaxCollector13459]

Lol nikkas just goin start chucking shots on purpose to drop their efficiency and get pulled out to rest lol

 

[TaxCollector13459]

What about at the end of the game? You can't take the star players out so they don't get hurt when the game is basically over and there's no reason for them to be out there anymore

Ain’t that what happened to d rose that one game?

 

[Damnshow]

Tax write off. It won't fix the problem.

Denver Nuggets spent two years without two important players. They rested these guys for a few games here and there... And the outcome was tremendeous in the playoffs. Teams that have a chance to win will pay the fine.

Or You can just play your star 10 minutes and sit on the bench for the rest of the game lol, nobody's fining you for that.

 

[BobbyBooshay]

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

Same coli nikkas that are ok with load management are the same coli nikkas that don’t pay attention until the playoffs.


too many big games have been ruined bc of that shyt

 

[Bar Razor]

It's not lost on me that the constant bytching and moaning from fans about load management is only a thing with an overwhelmingly black League like the NBA because you don't see the same complaints in Soccer or Baseball Leagues where they do the exact same shyt.

Man go ahead with that shyt. I watched the NBA in the late 80s/90s to present. Jordan played 82 games like 8 times, 80 a couple of times, plus Olympics and playoffs to the Finals year after year. And that was the norm, players just played as much of the season as they could. LOL @ thinking fans who spend their hard earned money to see a star player, but are consistently unable to do so because of "load management" being cool with that. I don't give a fukk what Soccer or Baseball does because I don't watch that shyt. As a black man, race has nothing to do with my distaste for it.

 

[tremonthustler1]

NO ONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO “REST”.. PERIOD

BARRING AN INJURY, IF U DONT PLAY THAT GAME THEN U SHOULD LOSE THAT GAMES PORTION OF YOUR SALARY

THE NBA IS HARD TO WATCH IN THE REGULAR SEASON BECAUSE PLAYERS DONT TAKE PRIDE IN PLAYING EVERY NIGHT THE WAY THEY USED TO

NO SUCH THING AS LOAD MANAGEMENT BEFORE BRON BECAME FACE OF THE LEAGUE

LETS GET BACK TO “I LOVE THIS STUFF”

you don't play everyone on your roster though.