No More Whining

[101A]

NOW, the refs have an even more powerfull, momentum shifting weapon. NO-CALL an obvious hack, the player reacts, you "T" him up with a quick whistle. Potential 3 point swing right there.

[Spurminator]

It will be easy to inforce this rule... It will be the same as every other call NBA Officials make during a game:

Arbitrary.

[sa_butta]

With this new rule who will be the first to get a one game suspension?
and who will have the most T's by seasons end?

[GrandeDavid]

The Spurs don't seem to complain more than any other team. In fact, I'd assume they complain less than most teams.

[Ignorant Spurs fan]

Spurs probably complain the least among most teams. Mavs are screwed. they need to actually learn to play basketball now

[ShoogarBear]

Spurs whine big time, especially over the last two years. But the rule has the potential to be bull if it's just called arbitrarily. Hopefully the players will just STFU and leave the whining where it belongs, with the owners and their blogs.

[carib]

When you play ball you get emotional and speak you mind some times you are out there being aggressive and fighting to win. There will be times when you think a call should have gone your way, and you say what’s up to the Ref, he can tune you out and move on, but now it is a policy.

The refs will not see every call so now No Blood No Foul

[ambchang]

You can only complain while running back on D? Is this some sort of inventive ways for the NBA to increase scoring? Now players can only "whine" going back on D, so they are going to whine more while running back on D, which translates to missed defensive assignments, which leads to 5 on 4 breaks, which leads to easy scores! Of course, this will eventually leads to strokes for defensive coaches, so after all of those died (Pop, AJ, Riley, Jackson), they are only left with crap coaches, and the NBA will turn into an And1 tour!

[Obstructed_View]

Go back and watch the 1999 and 2003 playoffs. The Spurs didn't whine at all. Duncan never made gestures or "what me?" faces. He'll learn to shut up and knock it off or he'll earn his first career ejection.

[WalterBenitez]

At this point,

Stern is thinking on banning these smiles

[Kori Ellis]

You can only complain while running back on D? Is this some sort of inventive ways for the NBA to increase scoring? Now players can only "whine" going back on D, so they are going to whine more while running back on D, which translates to missed defensive assignments, which leads to 5 on 4 breaks, which leads to easy scores! Of course, this will eventually leads to strokes for defensive coaches, so after all of those died (Pop, AJ, Riley, Jackson), they are only left with crap coaches, and the NBA will turn into an And1 tour!

They can't whine while running back on D. They can ask a question politely about a call. They can't whine or anytime.

I wonder how strict they are going to be. I wonder if throwing your hands up is going to be automatic. If so, look for Tim, Manu, Bruce and Tony to get T's pretty regularly til they adjust.