1. Stern seemed to carefully pick his words in that resting a single player would be fine but not sending him a top 5. Had Pop resting only Duncan, nothing would have happened.
The argument that now no one can rest players isn't accurate. Seems pretty clear to me.
2. Money and Fans are interconnected. Can't have one without the other.
When was the last time someone benched their top available 4 or 5 early season? What is this even comparable to?
You really aren't this naive, man. Stern dropped the hammer because Pops tried to swag on him during a national TV game. If he did this against the Bobcats or hell the Magic the day before, this is a non story. It's about the mula. and the Mula only...he doesn't give a fuck about the fan experience.
also Boston sat the big 3 quite a bit during their tenure. We rested Iggy and Brand a ton the last few.
and in the end, why should Stern have power over what a coach does. If Pops played Danny Green would it be OK then? Why the cut off point to how many players he can rest.
Look I get that it wasn't exactly about rest and more so Pops trying to stomp Stern. So cool. It's just the whole thing that Stern has the ability to basically tell a Coach that he can't do specific aspects of his goddam job. He rested his big 4. The Spurs' center or PF isby committee otherwise he probably would have sat 5 dudes.
I don't care if it's precedent or a rule...it's a dumb rule.
But whatever, I can;t wait until this either is ignored later or teams outright lie...This fixes nothing.
Pops will merely say they are banged up next time.
