MLB guys rest a lor and no one gets too upset about it. Several times a year star players get a day off to clear their head and rest. Now, it's a different game, a 162-game grind where you're playing almost every day, and NBA is only 82 games in which you don't play a lot of back to backs.Secret Weapon wrote:I don't follow the NBA all that much but will watch the big games, but this whole resting players thing seems a little odd to me. It seems there is a lot of complaining about the NBA scheduling back to back games, but the NHL does the same thing and it seems like hockey would be more physically demanding than basketball. Maybe I am off though.
I get a coach resting a veteran team occasionally, especially if their regular season fate is fairly clear. They aren't playing to be the regular season champs and want to be fresh for the playoffs.
On the other hand, it's entertainment and we the audience want to see the stars and the networks who paid incredibly high prices for the broadcast rights want to give us the stars. So if the Dubs are playing the Spurs on national TV on a Saturday night and the Spurs are on a B2B coming off playing in LA the night before....then Pop kind of ought to rest his players on Saturday night in LA rather than Sunday night in Oakland, if Sunday night in Oakland is the one prime time network TV game of the week. He does a disservice to the league by resting his studs on the only three hours we can see the NBA without cable this week. I get the league being displeased with this.