NBA to vote on new draft lottery system

[Mainstreet]

It's going to be interesting to see how they enforce resting healthy players. It's at the commissioners discretion but ultimately how do you prove it? If the team doctor signs off on the injury what is the NBA going to do?

It doesn't look like there is a provision for NBA verifying injuries with their own medical staff.

Even if there is injury verification it is so easy for a doctor to say a player has a muscles spasm or tweaked ankle... and it will likely be legitimate. Many players play with injury all season so they welcome an opportunity to rest a nagging injury. If a team really wants to rest a player, I don't seeing it being that hard except teams will make it less obvious.

 

[Hoop Head]

I saw one of the articles mention how the league would crack down on teams resting players on road trips. That makes sense since who a team is playing helps sell tickets and if people buy tickets to see Lebron play the Suns and the Cavs rest him the fans get screwed. I think teams will just be a little more cautious when resting players so they don't catch Silver's attention. Try not to rest players on the road and also avoid it during marquee matchups on national TV. I could see Pop not caring and eating the fine but I can't see a lot of other teams doing the same. It depends on who they fine, the coach, the player, the franchise, and how much.

 

[JCSunsfan]

I saw one of the articles mention how the league would crack down on teams resting players on road trips. That makes sense since who a team is playing helps sell tickets and if people buy tickets to see Lebron play the Suns and the Cavs rest him the fans get screwed. I think teams will just be a little more cautious when resting players so they don't catch Silver's attention. Try not to rest players on the road and also avoid it during marquee matchups on national TV. I could see Pop not caring and eating the fine but I can't see a lot of other teams doing the same. It depends on who they fine, the coach, the player, the franchise, and how much.

It makes sense. If you want to rest a player, rest him at home, where home town fans get plenty of chances to see him.

This won't solve the problem, but it might cut it back some. It didn't years ago when players would get put on the injured list with "tendinitis" so teams could carry more than the limit then of 12. What it will do is give the league something to say to the TV sponsors. "Hey, he is injured, what can we do?" This is a fine line with the NBA. Its those TV sponsors that make that salary cap so amazingly high. Owners understand this. Players and coaches should.