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yet he's been allowing Joey Crawford to call Spurs important playoff games since 2008....
exactly. And at risk of repeating myself, Pop's been doing it since 2005 at least when Sarver cried about it and Stern did nothing.
yet he's been allowing Joey Crawford to call Spurs important playoff games since 2008....
4 best players got day off
That's a huge holding down in a team that every player is hold down every game.
Suggesting there's "injustice" here.
everybody talks about the Spurs age, all the time. This is not a surprise. I dont want to risk an injurie, specially against the best team in the league.
Nobody is happy! STERN!
And what rules did they break to warrant a suspension? At least attempt to think.
Apparently, there is a precedent for this. David Stern once fined Pat Riley $25K for resting Johnson and Worthy.
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/25/sp...rs-a-fine.html
lol this is the weakest trolling you've ever done and you've done some seriously weak trolling in the past.
Stern. 4th road game in 5 nights vs first game in FIVE nights at home? GTFO. I've never seen that before in my life. No surprise here that Pop rested guys. I called it several days ago after I looked at the schedules for both teams.
He's obviously pissed because he expected Miami to beat the full Spurs roster, now their win pretty much won't mean . Can't wait 'til Stern retires tbh. Good riddance.
When it comes down to it, I don't think Stern can do anything except try change the rules for the future.
Right now, a coach can sit a player for any reason -- he was late for practice, conduct detrimental to the team, bad matchups, stayed up too late, he's been sucking lately, worried he might get re-injured, he's tired, whatever.
So if Stern doesn't want to let the coaches sit players, then he'll have to change the rule ... which would be impossible. What would he want "a doctor's note" for everyone who gets a DNP-CD?
Precedent for a fine -- a relatively small one.
Unless Stern is speaking purely out of anger and will be cooler about it tomorrow, there's absolutely no precedent for the imposition of substantial sanctions, particularly when no express rule has been broken.
It's fascinating that the talking heads -- former players, national basketball writers, TNT's game crew and studio crew, ESPN's Heat jocksniffers -- almost unanimously think that Stern's way out of line here and are either flat out saying his fit is unwarranted or openly mocking his threats.
+1
Everybody does his job the best he can.P
Pop did what he though is the best for the team in short and long run.
But how it's interesting now where medicine is better and nutritions are better that players are more tired then those from the past.
The game is more demanding of course but come on.
yeah the spurs get no national attention until they piss off the commish. amazing.
it's just about the keeping up of appearances. had the big 3 been at the game, but not played, it somehow would have been different? I think stern just thinks this makes him look foolish and won't stand for that. it's like the flopping rule. it's all about the integrity of officials and how flopping makes them look stupid. this makes the league and its sponsors look silly. sort of.
hope the spurs win and we get fined for winning with our bench.
Stern should thank Pop.
Pop just took the NFL Thursday Night Game and the Big East Championship Game off the radar.
This topic will dominate until Saturday.
IMO a 82 game season should be bit longer for teams to have opportunity to practice and be fresher.
Problem is that spurs are not using enough dope !
Hopefully. Stern would look like even a bigger idiot.
Interesting inside info you have there Brazil
Doesn't Reggie work for tnt? He can't still be getting paid by the nba? For what?
Is Pop going to get in trouble for 'basketball reasons'?
It sucks when you buy tickets to see a good match up, and wind up watching a preseason type match up.
BUT Miami has had four days off, been in Miami the past nine days, while the Spurs have had five games in seven nights, and haven't been in San Antonio in ten days.
It's absurd to think the Spurs would be punished for resting players that are 35, and 36 (Manu and Tim), and even looking at Parker who is only thirty but has been in the league for going on 12 seasons, and is just a few games shy of having played 1,000 total games in his career.
Next time Pop can just put them in the starting lineup, play them one minute, call a timeout, and take them all out. I bet he'd do that too, that's why you gotta love him.
I'm an insider tbh
I was about to make a joke about Stern's punishment being the reversal of the Stephen Jackson trade for "basketball reasons" ...... but that's not even funny.
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