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[Wojnarowski] New policies by NBA: No more than one star can sit in the same game, stars must play in national TV and in-season tournament games, teams must sit stars more at home than on the road, refrain from long-term shutdowns, and insure resting players are present and visible to fans.

  • September 11, 2023


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.

32 comments

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. > 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

    ————–

  5. 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

  10. 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?

  11. 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?

  15. 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.

  16. Or what?

    Nice press release but “teams must” is accompanied by an “or” – or its much ado about nothing.

  19. Warriors pushed it too hard resting their top 4 on the road a bunch of times and now they have ruined it for everyone.

  21. 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’

  22. 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.

  23. 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?

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