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

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.

yup

they just don’t want guys like balmer and lacob to being able to spend into infinity. my understanding is that this CBA was tailored to encourage teams to spend into the tax

Adam Silver says for the NBA's in-season tournament, players will wear different uniforms, the courts may look different. The tournament will be played in November and December. The final four teams will play at a neutral site, per Silver.

(via @SBJ World Congress event)

— Mark J. Burns (@markjburns88) April 18, 2023

The teams who play in the in-season championship will effectively be playing in their 83rd game of the season, per Silver. All of the other games in the in-season tournament will also be treated as regular season games.

— Mark J. Burns (@markjburns88) April 18, 2023

i don't get it

the people are clamoring for more uniforms there are not enough uniforms already is what theyre saying

this is a bad idea lol

it’s so dumb

i think it’s a bad sign when you’ve repeatedly explained the concept to your audience over the course of years and everyone’s response the entire time has been “what?”

uniforms are cool, but what about courts that look different? you guys love basketball courts.

the teams will have different names, the players will be new heights, the shoes won’t be shoes, threes will be twos and twos will be threes, circular backboards, if you can imagine it it’s in the tourney baby

if i was commissioner i'd have each franchise start its own slamball team and that would be the midseason tournament