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

they are gonna have to start saying it

I’m saying it right now to jamal I’ll let you know what he says

i guess the issue isn’t really the first max aka the fun max it’s everything that happens after… murray is def in that boat. one thing teams should stop doing is jumping at the first opportunity to re-sign their middling star to a new massive extension when he still has two years or whatever left on his current deal. i think that’s where a lot of these contracts have gone bad

for sure. they’re going to be in a tough spot with murray because as much as I love him, he’s a top 40 regular season player and maybe a top 25 postseason player. hes right in that zone. but maybe he’ll just bloom late because of the injury

this seems very convoluted

This is how the in-season tournament will work. An explanation of its format and schedule:https://t.co/JGwE26XUy3 https://t.co/PpBU1Y8nAx pic.twitter.com/FYuky0znXk

— Mike Vorkunov (@MikeVorkunov) May 11, 2023

i'm sorry is today april 1? that is insane

Europhiles smh

glad adam is feeling so inspired

it's great they have the backing of NBA leaders like Larry Nance, Jr, Alex Caruso, TJ McConnell, and Josh Richardson that will carry a lot of weight

I’m sorry but this is all very foolish

it’s even worse than i thought it would be

it might be fun idk i bet the ratings will go up + put the nba in the public consciousness earlier than usual, which is not to say its not silly cause obvs

good call not stopping play for review they shd do that for flagrants and techs generally

The proposed In-Game Flopping Penalty will be in effect on a provisional basis for all 2023 NBA summer leagues. pic.twitter.com/eqdJ5gHr7d

— NBA Communications (@NBAPR) July 4, 2023

ESPN Sources: The NBA's new In-Season Tournament Final Four is set for December 7 and 9 in Las Vegas. Statistics will count for the league's regular season, except for the championship game of the event.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 5, 2023

I guess we’re really doing this

its so dumb, if they wanna do fa cup shit, g league teams need a chance to compete at the very least. but that competition predates the existence of basketball. just start a team in vegas if thats the fuckin move.

i think its fine and could even be cool, except adding an extra game to an already too long season is bad they shd go in the other direction

so the semi finals in the final four count for the season, but not the final game? seems like a headache to schedule!

or does woj just mean player stats, and the vegas mini-tournament won't count towards regular season standings

i think the champ game is off the books altogether its not a real game

I really can’t wait until the clippers load manage the in season championship game

NBA IN-SEASON TOURNAMENT EXPLAINED 🎥

Starting Nov. 3, all 30 teams will compete for the NBA Cup with 8 teams advancing into the knockout rounds! The tournament semis and championship game will be held in Las Vegas, Dec. 7 and 9! pic.twitter.com/NZdURUa3XR

— NBA (@NBA) July 8, 2023

need to know why half of rjeff’s shirt is unbuttoned

He even took his shirt off in one bit a while back

I’m not shocked they couldn’t get an agreement for G League (or even European participation) or a playoff guarantee but I am shocked they are proceeding without either. Especially since they can’t guarantee group play games won’t be the second night of a back-to-back.

wooow

they found NBA ref Eric Lewis burner 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/NMPNoIzeWU

— LakeShowYo (@LakeShowYo) May 26, 2023

Damn

https://x.com/chrisbhaynes/status/1696939511266284002?s=46&t=mohDpDAFl5F45rFjzYedvA

yet another persecution of an innocent celtics fan

fake injuries preferred i guess

Under new rules, teams would be fined $100K for a first violation, $250K for a second violation and $1 million more than the previous penalty for each additional violation, sources tell ESPN. https://t.co/ZOQjJpoNaD

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) September 11, 2023

I'd be curious to see what their rubric is for what constitutes a "star"

apparently its made an all star or all nba team within last 3 seasons

Shit I don’t qualify.

was on a long drive yesterday listening to NBA podcasts of course and started thinking about load management ideas…what if there were a minutes restriction for players who’d missed the previous game? like say kawhi sits out a tuesday night game against the wizards. well now he can only play in one half of the next game. it would take some incentive out of sitting if you can’t be fully helpful to your team the next game…while of course being injury friendly…if you just missed a game due to “injury” you should probably be taking it easy the next time around

so you punish a team who’s depriving their fans by depriving them some more hmm

incentives baby. and player safety!

Just make it so that when you miss a game you’re out for the season and someone else takes your spot, and so on.

next man up

Let the load management begin!

Steph Curry and Jonathan Kuminga are both questionable for the Warriors tomorrow in Houston. Left foot soreness for both. Curry was icing his left foot last night postgame. Warriors had a light workout in Sacramento today. Only young guys and Draymond Green.

— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) October 28, 2023

just looked up the new rules not sure theyve been posted here, they actually allow for a lot of resting, pretty reasonable really

1. No more than one star player is unavailable for the same game. Star is defined as a player who has been an All-Star or on an All-NBA team in any of the previous three seasons

2. Teams must ensure that star players are available for national TV and in-season tournament games.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Teams must ensure that healthy players resting for a game are present and visible to fans.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/38386013/how-nba-new-rules-resting-stars-work

honestly I love my idea make it so commish

throw the book at these fucks

https://x.com/pompeyonsixers/status/1718684992925044833?s=46&t=XlsbhgknQH65_CH00_uPqw

thinking about these new resting policies and theyre enacted by the league (the owners) to change the behavior of the coaches who the owners employ lol

tho i think the whole thing despite what the league is saying demonstrates the effectiveness of load management, if an owner let it be known that he didnt want his team doing load management then the teams that were doing load management would have a competitive advantage, however if the whole league is prevented from doing it by rule no one gains an advantage

of course the new rules dont prevent it they just try to schedule it so it has the least bad impact on the quality of the games, which is good imo, still think itd be way better to address the root issue and player fewer games, but whatre you gonna do the owners are a bunch of bean counters

throw the book at these fucks

Joel Embiid 29:25 12 22 54.5 2 4 50.0 9 12 75.0 5 10 15 7 2 6 3 3 35 28

there has to be, in 2023, a better option for when the shot clocks go out than rolling the replacements out onto the baseline and leaving them there where none of the players can see them

How on earth did Golden State get TJD at Pick 57? Is what they did even legal? — David H.

Jackson-Davis’ agent had an inkling that the Warriors would give him a multiyear deal and that TJD would have a shot at some minutes with the Warriors. So if teams picking ahead of 57 weren’t going to give TJD a multiyear deal, they were told to pass. Which got him to the Warriors.

TJD’s agent? James Dunleavy, brother of the Warriors GM.

Reminds me of the Brunson Knicks situation, I'm guessing the draft doesn't have rules against tampering that are as strict as FA?

Nice

As part of meeting today with general managers, the NBA discussed possibility of extending Draft format to two days beginning as soon as 2024, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) November 8, 2023

i assume they would break out the lottery picks only to day 1.

I'm guessing the draft doesn't have rules against tampering that are as strict as FA?

― Kira Nerys Witherspoon (Leee), Tuesday, November 7, 2023 10:26 PM (yesterday)

i listened to someone talk about the jackson-davis thing after the draft... i wanna say tjarks or sam vecenie or someone like that. my recollection is the person was saying that kinda back end maneuvering in the draft is pretty common & not really frowned upon by teams. basically luxury tax teams are incentivized to take second round picks and give them multiyear deals in order to spread the cap hit out over multiple years, and so agents try and get clients to those teams and to those contracts, but it doesn't seem like any team cares enough about back of the second round picks to fight the agents. i think specifically w/ TJD the pacers maybe were going to draft him two picks ahead of GSW but were asked to let him fall so he could take the multi year deal w/ GSW. i just think those kinda players are usually so insignificant to the grand scheme of the league that no team is gonna be like "well no fuck you. you're the 55th pick and you're gonna like it!"

also i don't think tampering exists at all when it comes to the draft bcuz the players involved are not part of the NBA yet. for instance we hear often about teams (OKC) telling players they're going to pick them at x pick and to not work out for any other teams. i think promises in particular are pretty common w/ euro picks? in order to get guys to stay in the draft. i'm sure there's some lines that can't be crossed between teams and such but the concept of "tampering" in the sense of communicating w/ players and all that i don't think exists w/ the draft

ok this really is not necessary. like are they gonna re-air the first round on the second day? because…
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, November 8, 2023 3:44 PM (fifty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i assume they would break out the lottery picks only to day 1.

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, November 8, 2023 3:51 PM (fifty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh god they want to make the whole thing into the terrible human interest shit they aired on abc this year, a lil half an hour inspirational movie about each player with nothing about basketball in it

literally cannot fathom a market for a day 2 of the NBA draft even if half the first round picks were pushed off to that