Official 2016-2017 NBA Season Thread - NBA rules Chris Bosh has a career ending injury

[Olympus]

There's no need to trim the schedule down, these clowns just need to man up and play. They've reduced the amount of b2b, gave them a whole week for the playoffs reduced the 4 games in 5 nights. They even starting the season a week earlier. This new generation is a joke. 

Word.

Wilt and Oscar were averaging 45+ minutes a game their entire career before all this new medicine and technology. Guys just soft now

 

[jbone2308]

Charmin league minus a small few.

 

[addict4sneakers]

Russ and Harden have astronomical usage and won't sit

They don't need to shorten the season.

 

[noblekane]

your the deepest team in the nba in a garbage conference shut the **** up david griffin

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Lisa Salters asked Griffin some good questions too.

 

[cedric ceballos]

I'd have no problem with them resting guys if the teams box office (not talking resell sites) charged the same price when the cavs and warriors come to town as they do when the bucks and magic come.

It's a players league. They have different tier pricing, the box office marks the prices up for games when good teams come to town, or marquee players. The Lakers were trash last year but since it was Kobe's last season, teams priced the tickets around the same price they would charge when the Warriors and cavs come to down.

It was a bad look when they sat lebron in Memphis, bad when they did it to curry last week. Especially for a road game when those cities only get to see the players once or twice a year and they're healthy yet sitting out. The NBA markets individual players way more than the other professional sports leagues do, so it stands out more when a lebron or curry sits out when healthy.

The league won't care if fans complain, but perhaps abc who is paying a bunch to broadcast these games raising a stink will cause the league to nip this in the bud at some point.

Take a home playoff game or first round picks away from teams who blatantly sit star talent and it'll nip things in the bud quick. I mean they took 3 first round picks away from the timberwolves for trying to sign joe smith under the table years ago. If the league wanted to stop this crap they could.

 

[noblekane]

wow who just let rj blow by them?

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Van Gundy [emoji]128514[/emoji][emoji]128514[/emoji][emoji]128514[/emoji]

 

[P C H]

Van Gundy [emoji]128514[/emoji][emoji]128514[/emoji][emoji]128514[/emoji]

What did he say?

 

[P C H]

LeBron and Dwight were both more deserving

Really? I mean Maybe, they did, but it's silly to shadow box someone's MVP for the sake of argument.

D Rose was the best player on a 62 win team. He absolutely deserved the MVP.

Same with AI. If you have the best record for the entire conference, and you avg 30 a game to get to that point, you deserved the MVP. It's not like it's blasphemous or anything close to that.

 

[OTG]

 
There's no need to trim the schedule down, these clowns just need to man up and play. They've reduced the amount of b2b, gave them a whole week for the All Star game reduced the 4 games in 5 nights. They even starting the season a week earlier. This new generation is a joke. 

spot on... these dudes getting more money than ever but don't wanna play as much

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

LAC only got 14 first quarter points? What is going on breh

 

[noblekane]

how do you score only 14 points in the first quarter against a team that has theirs 3 stars sitting?

 

[DCAllAfrican]

The Iowa Energy will retire Curtis Stinson's jersey on March 25th. He is 7th all time in career D-League scoring with 3,646 points.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

What did he say?

Taking shots at the Cava

 

[DCAllAfrican]

JR Smith show [emoji]128526[/emoji]

 

[Mr.Guy]

I'd rest Lebby the rest of the season if I were Lue.

 

[Maximus Meridius]

There's no need to trim the schedule down, these clowns just need to man up and play. They've reduced the amount of b2b, gave them a whole week for the All Star game reduced the 4 games in 5 nights. They even starting the season a week earlier. This new generation is a joke. 

This. I'm not even tryna be on that "back in the day... " stuff but I never heard Kobe, AI and KG complain about the schedule and it's too "gruelling" and I must rest.


I mean yeah it's 82 games but it's better ways to save yourself. Play less minutes Bron. Instead of staying in the game when your team is up 12+ in the 4th, sit down. Play between 27 - 30 minutes for a few games.

 

[noblekane]

I'd rest Lebby the rest of the season if I were Lue.

you dont want that much rest

 

[noblekane]

they really got paul pierce out there

 

[hardens beard]

Russ and Harden have astronomical usage and won't sit

They don't need to shorten the season.

 

[noblekane]

why is kevin love dressed like a theatre usher

 

[Mr.Guy]

I don't have a problem with players resting. Especially if they're older or injury prone players.

 

[lovehateself]

If it were me, I'd rather play tonight, then go out all night and sit out tomorrow vs the Lakers.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Makes more sense to rest a player the second game of the b2b right...,

Is doc rivers really about to abandon ship for Orlando

Would be a smart move for him. He's not going to win in LA and eventually will be fired. May as well go to Orlando where he'll be given time to build something new.

And then subsequently tear it to The ground
Clips goofed by giving him so much control, dude gonna trade himself to Orlando if/when they trade cp3/Blake

 

[Quincy McCall]

They're going to be talking about resting the entire game...