The goals of these franchises are to increase enterprise value and win championships. If you can play your superstars at reduced minutes and still win 50 to 55 games, then it seems like the smart move. From a player’s perspective, it also makes sense, why play more when you don’t have to when you get paid the same either way? Most players don’t have the competitive drive of MJ or Kobe or Bird.
Hockey fans are ruining this thread and I also can’t believe we’re still blaming the players for load management
Then pay money according to games played. Half the money guaranteed, half the money paid according to games played. Why should Kawhi get the full salary like Westbrook when Westbrook plays every game? Distribute part of Kawhi’s money to the guys who play. Westbrook gets less money for playing way more.
Adam Silver letting Chuck cook
Secure the generational wealth
Currently in entitlement era for professional sports. Watch how much complaining happens across all sports during games. It’s hard to watch.
Bubble will eventually pop on these gargantuan salaries…. Then entitlement will begin to slow.
In front of Adam Silver is nuts 😂
Sleeping in chambers!
You don’t ever see hockey players taking games off for load management. You can’t force those guys off the ice on game days. NBA players are soft. Still love the league, but they soft. Ain’t no dawgs in this league compared to the NHL.
I played hockey from age 4 to college, I hardly got any serious injuries. I played basketball in the summers, always wound up with a rolled ankle or something lower body. I think what also needs to be considered is how big the guys in the NBA are and what sort of stress you’re putting on the legs of those kind players. Yeah and hockey we block shots and s*** but those are just bone bruises, or cuts.
Hockey players are hard core dedicated athletes who play for the game.
I’ve always had a mad respect for hockey players. It’s one of those sports that you’re almost born and bred to play. They play in competitive leagues as early as elementary school. They live and breathe it. It’s a hard sport. Not only do you have to be really good with your hands to coordinate with the puck to the stick, you have to keep your head up for some bone crushing hits and the pain that that inevitably causes you—oh yeah, and you have to ice skate. Not just skate, but skate well, skate fast, and skate backwards. It’s an expensive sport for parents to keep up with, especially when you’re young and growing. These guys are playing hockey around the time they can walk. They dedicate their whole life to it, and most of them won’t even make it to major junior, let alone the AHL or the big show. That’s gotta be hard to accept. That’s why you have American and Canadian hockey players playing all over the world. And if you make it to the show, it’s the lowest-paying sport of the big four in North America and one of the most dangerous. You have the knee injuries that you see in every sport. You have the concussion problems like football. You’re constantly being hit. Oh, and you could die from someone’s skate cutting your jugular while you’re laying on the ice. So I’ll never make fun of a hockey player that’s hanging on in their 30s in beer league. They worked for it their whole life and most of the time it ends in a college career before the competitive hockey is over for them.