Wednesday, April 14, 2010

To Sit or Not To Sit?

In an interview today, NBA commissioner David Stern discussed his growing concern about winning teams resting players going into the playoffs.  With respect to this issue, Commissioner Stern said:

"We're troubled by it, because it would be our preference that healthy players play ... But sometimes players play at different levels of being nicked or bruised and we never wanted to get into the business of sending out truckloads of doctors analyzing whether a player was actually nicked or bruised, and we understand the issue"
Personally, I don't think this is much of an issue.  If a team wins enough games to be able to rest its starters going into the playoffs, good for them.  That's why you win all year and fans hopefully get a better playoff run because their team's stars are rested! 

My big problem is teams sitting "injured" players to better their draft position.  Fans of a bad team should not have to suffer more because that team's best players are on the bench.

Thoughts?

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