Source: https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/38380166/sources-nba-likely-pass-tougher-rules-resting-stars
> Teams must manage their roster to ensure that no more than one star player is unavailable for the same game.
> Teams must insure that star players are available for national television and in-season tournament games.
> Teams must maintain a balance between the number of one-game absences for a star player in home games and road games — with a preference for those absences to happen in home games.
> Teams must refrain from any long-term shutdown — or near shutdown — when a star player stops participating in games or plays in a materially reduced role in circumstances affecting the integrity of the game.
> Teams must insure that healthy players resting for a game are present and visible to fans.
> The NBA will provide several scenarios for excused absences on missed games — including those involving regular-season back-to-back scenarios, sources said. For example, the NBA will allow pre-approved designated back-to-back allowances for players who are 35 years old on opening night or have career workloads of 34,000 regular-season minutes or 1,000 regular season/playoff games combined, sources said.
by UnbiasedNBAFan_
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I understand why they want to have these rules, but it is honestly *embarrassing* that the NBA has to put these rules out there so publicly.
All of those seem like perfectly reasonable demands. Resolving this and fixing the perception that player’s can demand out at they please and people are gonna have to unironically praise Silver again.
> pre-approved designated back-to-back allowances for players who are 35 years old on opening night or have career workloads of 34,000 regular-season minutes or 1,000 regular season/playoff games combined, sources said.
The LeBron Rule
Edit: I just looked it up. 34,000+ minute guys are
* LeBron
* Chris Paul
* Iguodala
* Russ
* KD
* Derozan
* James Harden
* Rudy Gay
* Kyle Lowry
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Wow this is actually crazy
Wait so what if there’s a genuine injury to two star players? How do they referee this. And what’s considered a “star?” Just any all-stars? Because then Jimmy Butler gonna be chilling all year
They’ll just list fake injuries
Kawhi will literally be amputated with these rules
How do they determine if a player is a star or not?
So kawhi will be banned basically?
Will I try to vote rival teams’ worst players onto the all start team so they’ll be forced to play in regular season games?
My question is, what stops teams from just listing injuries like “sore knee” or “sore back?” Is the NBA actually going to investigate whether or not injuries are legitimate now?
The NBA keeps making the schedule harder but it wants players to play more games lmao what a joke
Pop will come up with something.
I just want to see if local fans really have any vested interest in this in-season tournament that stars are now forced to play in. As an international supporter, I don’t give AF because there’s no interesting leverage.
Who doesn’t love a good class system. No, you can sit, you’re not a star.
I’m a Pacers fan so this doesn’t change anything for the team. We play a grand total of 4 nationally televised games that are all on NBA TV.
Or what?
Nice press release but “teams must” is accompanied by an “or” – or its much ado about nothing.
whats the nba’s definition of a star?
LOL, now the NBA has to release a list of who is a “star” and who’s just a “glue guy.”
Warriors pushed it too hard resting their top 4 on the road a bunch of times and now they have ruined it for everyone.
I can’t wait to litigate what a “star player” is for the next forever.
this is such garbage. adam silver picking fights he can’t win, just muddying waters and overcomplicating the league.
teams can circumvent this so easily. muscle spasms, prove he doesn’t have em’
It’s only a matter of time until one of these stars suffers a season-ending injury in the first quarter of some meaningless road game in April.
Will be interesting to see how many times that will have to happen before the league realizes how dumb this is. I’m setting the over/under at 3.5 avoidable injuries.
It’s really not that hard. They just need to re-structure the revenue sharing and salary “likely to be earned” bonus structure to give every team and every player a legitimate reason to try to win every single game.
Ah, so the Wizards, Hornets, Pistons, Rockets, Pacers, Raptors, Magic, and Blazers only have to worry about one national broadcast, lol. Oh, does NBA TV count?
Insure and Ensure is on today’s test
And they’re going to break Wemby his first season
What’s to stop a team from playing a star one minute just to get the league off their asses?
Welp, welcome to the era of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P9enpDcfK8
how the heck do they plan on enforcing this?
NBA is terrified of how much Spurs going to try and protect Wemby.
Lotta injured players about to sit a game or two just in case…
This is pretty dumb. Have less games if you don’t like players resting.
How do they define star?
Will there also be a guideline for star treatment by the refs?
What defines a star?
I love the road changes. Nothing worse than paying top dollar to see an amazing opponent only for them to not even have their stars on the court let alone in the building.