If you ask anyone in or around the NBA what the biggest problem facing the league is, there’s a high probability that many of them will say load management. It’s an issue that’s been a topic of discussion around the NBA for years, and gets resurfaced every time a team rests star players. There hasn’t been an adequate solution to resolve this issue, but the league has tried its hardest to prevent it from happening. First, it was limiting the number of back-to-back games on the schedule, especially ahead of nationally televised matchups so that the biggest stars are playing in the marquee matchups. But that hasn’t eradicated the issue.
Now, the league will be handing down harsher penalties for teams that decide to rest players in certain situations. According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the league’s Board of Governors voted on Wednesday to approve the new rules, which will see teams receiving hefty fines if they sit a star player in a nationally televised game or an in-season tournament game, sit multiple stars in the same game or shut down a star player for a long stretch of the season.
Under this rule, a “star player” will be seen as anyone who has made an All-Star or All-NBA team in the past three seasons, per The Athletic’s Shams Charania. The fines will be as follows for each violation, per ESPN’s Bobby Marks:
$100,000 for first violation$250,000 for a second violation$1 million more than the previous fine for any additional violation (i.e. $1.25 million for the third violation, $2.25 million for fourth, etc.)
The NBA can investigate a player’s availability, and an investigation will now be triggered automatically if a star player misses a national TV or in-season tournament game, multiple star players miss the same game or there are inconsistent public statements about a star player’s availability, per ESPN.
There are exceptions to the rules, per ESPN: If a team contacts the NBA a week before a back-to-back game, it can seek approval to sit a star who is 35 or older on opening night or has played either 34,000…
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Author : Jasmyn Wimbish
Publish date : 2023-09-13 16:57:20
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