OT: Spurs Fined for Sitting Players

[wartyOne]

Now that I think about it, since practically everybody already makes the postseason, why not do a tournament like college, since that's an infinitely superior product anyway, and the final four can play in best of 7 series' to decide the champion.

 

[MHSL82]

Wanna make the games relevant?

Contract New Orleans, Charlotte, Milwaukee, Toronto, Cleveland, Minnesota, Indiana, Washington, Atlanta and the Clippers (I realize they have a few good players at the moment, but they're never going to compete for a Western Conference Championship, let alone a Finals Championship), and shorten the season to 40 games.

NBA: fixed.

Completely agree, the raping he did of Seattle was despicable.

Hurricane Katrina maybe saved the New Orleans Hornets and screwed the Seattle Supersonics. Maybe. New Orleans had bad attendance, I think, even with Chris Paul there. Not sure about this. When they relocated to Oklahoma City, the NBA saw that OKC was good for the NBA - obviously without Katrina they wouldn't have seen that, but they might have felt that it would work. Instead of making the move permanent, they needed to go back - because you don't lose your team due to injury, I mean natural disasters. It would have been terrible PR-wise to take the team away. They stayed, Seattle moved in. I might have the timeline wrong, but I think this how it turned out.

 

[bvanthielriceyoung]

Stern is almost as big of an idiot as Goodell. Almost.

No way, not even in the same league.

Goodell has done a little bit of questionable stuff but nothing too extradoniary. The most of it I can see the rational behind it.

Stern has been a dumb shit for years now. This latest is the just the icing on the dumb shit pile. A big reason why so many people talk bad/poorly about the NBA is because of Stern.

 

[SY8goat]

Now that I think about it, since practically everybody already makes the postseason, why not do a tournament like college, since that's an infinitely superior product anyway, and the final four can play in best of 7 series' to decide the champion.

Ehh, not really fan of watching college teams play zone defense (well, the mid-major conference teams lacking the talent to play man defense). That is the only thing I dislike about the college game, Zone D, I feel it gets overused. Though, I do love watching the conference tournaments and the NCAA tournament! Oh and if you want to see unselfish team basketball at the pro-level, watch the Spurs.

I can't see the NBA going to 1 game elimination playoff format, since it would lead to less playoff games. Meaning less ticket, advertising, and merchandise revenues.

 

[arsenal6106]

Ehh, not really fan of watching college teams play zone defense (well, the mid-major conference teams lacking the talent to play man defense). That is the only thing I dislike about the college game, Zone D, I feel it gets overused. Though, I do love watching the conference tournaments and the NCAA tournament! Oh and if you want to see unselfish team basketball at the pro-level, watch the Spurs.

I can't see the NBA going to 1 game elimination playoff format, since it would lead to less playoff games. Meaning less ticket, advertising, and merchandise revenues.

Plus, I can't stand the 35 second shot clock.

Totally agree with the bolded part. I'm hoping my Magic become the Spurs of the East in the coming years.

 

[tallglassofwater007]

The problem is that even without their stars the Spurs still almost won the game. It's not like it ended up being a bad game that the Heat ran away with. The Fans that were there and that watched on TV still got a great basketball game. I'd be more inclined to see Stern's point of view if the Spurs lost by 20+ points.

The NBA is a star driven league more than any other sport in America. Even if the game was a good one, people don't care. I agree with you, but I was just pointing out the little bit of sense in the matter.

 

[Yoshi]

Stern is almost as big of an idiot as Goodell. Almost.

They both pale in comparison to NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, and that's saying something.

Btw, I don't think the Spurs really care - when it comes down to being slapped with a 250 K fine as opposed to resting your aging stars at the end of a 6 game road trip through 9 days, I don't blame the Spurs. The interesting thing in this is that the other Spurs put up a heck of a competitive match and could have won the game!