NBA State of Play – Rule Changes – Trends – CBA – Schedule Reform – Load Mgmt – etc

to their credit its a fun game, basketball is easily the best general manager sport

i would love to see them do some things to ease player movement in this CBA but it feels like the teams are still pushing it in the other direction. there is a healthy balance between the FA and trade markets that is heavily imbalanced now bcuz every star player is incentivized to take the massive extension that they can only get from one team the first day it's made available

the decision was nearly 15 years ago and teams are still so shook by it. free agency is a more fun and overall a more healthy system than "you can only afford to acquire a star player if you are willing and able to mortgage a half decade of your franchise"

or put another way i don't see how the bradley beal situation is beneficial to the league overall, or really to the wizards either. everyone is a loser in that situation except brad beal but even he kinda loses too

the biggest max deals coming at the point when players decline is a flaw in the system

players should be eligible for super max as soon as their rookie deal is done imho

they are if they make an all nba team its just not as big of a super max as later cause the whole system is built on yearly raises

it shd be the superest of maxes, like imagine tatum on the dame deal

nba needs to set up their own academies to protect kids from aau basketball its bad

The whole picture starts with players sometimes playing between 10 and 20 games per week between school, AAU and competitive runs.

By the time guys get to the NBA, a lot of damage has already been done. NBA teams are mostly trying to hold of what feels inevitable for too many. https://t.co/S0gipY7dIZ

— Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) March 9, 2023

i keep wondering whether the ball bros having a bunch of injuries is related to stuff like that

Specialization is a killer. (Hollinger snippet below from our load management story: https://t.co/9YhWYHKBEx)

It ain’t just the NBA. In baseball, you hope pitchers have already had their Tommy John’s before you get them. pic.twitter.com/NdtadVNe0p

— Eric Nehm (@eric_nehm) March 9, 2023

also, humans keep getting bigger, stronger, faster - ligaments and cartilage generally don't get stronger/tougher.

NBA, NBPA moving closer to agreement to establish rule that a player must play in a minimum number of games to be eligible for major awards as part of potential new Collective Bargaining Agreement, sources say.

Full details in The Bounce at @TheAthletic: https://t.co/0BKUBNAkQr

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) March 13, 2023

that it’s going to be based on games rather than minutes is just the icing on the cake

The Mavs say Kyrie Irving (right foot soreness) joins Luka Dončić (left thigh strain) as OUT tonight against Memphis.

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) March 13, 2023

kyrie shutting it down early to save himself for the summer contract for whichever team is sucker enough to sign him

I was curious whether 1 of 7 games featuring both teams' top two players was a big outlier. So, I asked @DanFeldmanNBA to compile the data, and High Quality Matchup Rate was born:https://t.co/BvF4Plouidhttps://t.co/iikfe4g3hO

— Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA) January 26, 2023

High Quality Matchup Rate was just 25% over the weekend. pic.twitter.com/MrK8SQh8bA

— Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA) March 20, 2023

new CBA has been agreed upon but still needs to be ratified. sounds like the midseason tournament is happening, among other things

this thing where they’re killing the midlevel completely for high-spending teams sucks

yeah one would think the players wouldnt like that

it might be good imo

Wonder how many of these we'll see under the new rule of 65-game qualification for MVP, DPOY, 6MOTY, MIP, etc. https://t.co/PLTRWSjK9d

— Tom Haberstroh (@tomhaberstroh) April 1, 2023

this will be great

one has to imagine they’ll have try and close such loopholes to a degree i.e. a “game played” for awards purposes only counts if you play at least 15 minutes or something

saw somewhere that weee is getting removed from drug testing for good, i guess that’s the players big win in this

they should be able to vape on the bench

When was the last time a player got suspended for weed? Feel like it’s already been removed from testing off the record or something

i’m still shook by stephen jackson revealing he used to smoke weed before games. few things would make me panic harder than smoking weed and then sitting on an NBA bench with all that noise & stimulation around me waiting to be called into the game. but i guess that’s why i’m not stephen jackson

yeah thats wild lol

i bet he smoked it a lil while before the game so that he wasnt super high but still feeling loose

like you get high then warm up and by the time the game starts youre in the zone, thats what i used to do at the gym lol

it’s a good thing there are only 2 games today, this way more games can be played the other days. if you’re making the schedule you definitely want to block some days off to not have games

they dont want to catch march madness

there’s no known cure for it

April fools theres actually 100 games today

shd be fine

Game changer: The league's new collective bargaining agreement will give players the ability to invest in NBA and WNBA teams, as well as promote and/or invest in sports betting and cannabis companies, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) April 2, 2023

invest in the teams they play for?

must be april fools

love to invest in sports betting while playing professional sports

New cba sucks for teams that draft and develop well.

no games tonight, more games other days!

many games on tues, bos-phil cld be nice but wonder if we might be in rest mode east seedings are looking pretty set

I think officiating hasn't been mentioned enough as a factor in the NBA's offensive explosion this season

16.6% of all 2-point shot attempts drew fouls this year, a massive increase from 15.2% last season, which was already the highest mark of the 21st century pic.twitter.com/GAuFTzNbwK

— Lev Akabas (@LevAkabas) April 13, 2023

hmm not good

that's interesting. i'd be curious to see how that trends with 2-pt shot location (i.e. more shots near the rim = more opportunity to draw fouls)

^^^

If teams continue to move towards the morey fever dream of all 3s and layups, gotta think this number has yet to reach its high water mark

thatll show em

The NBA says Dallas has been fined $750,000 after the league opened an investigation into the Mavericks' decision to rest several players before last Friday's home game against Chicago while still mathematically alive for a play-in spot.

More NBA from me: https://t.co/A6ycVmnrjq

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) April 14, 2023

all they had to do was fake some injury maintenance but they had to go run their mouths

The marketer who proposed Slovenia Night now has their head on the chopping block.

this is wild

As part of the new CBA, if a team goes over the second tax apron, their 1st round pick 7 years out is unable to be traded, sources told me & @wojespn. Teams that then exceed the apron twice over the following four years will have that pick dropped to the end of the 1st round.

— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) April 17, 2023

Looks like the owners reaaallly don't want to be expected pay more than the cap.