'Just Play, Man': The NBA's Crackdown On Rest Days
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🗓️ 11 October 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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The NBA has been wrestling with a thorny issue for several years now – star players sitting out regular season games, even when they’re healthy. Fans are mad about it. TV broadcasters are mad about it. And now, the NBA has put new rules in place to try and prevent it from happening. Will the rules work? Could they potentially backfire? And what's at stake for the league?
Guest: Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic
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| 1:24.0 | To literally take games off in October or in November while you're feeling perfectly fine. |
| 1:32.0 | I think it is wrong, and I think it's insulting to the paying customer. |
| 1:37.0 | For several years now, the NBA has been wrestling with a thorny issue. |
| 1:42.0 | Star players sitting out regular season games, even when they're healthy. |
| 1:47.0 | As the phenomenon of this season, we like to call load management, choir lettered, absolutely been the star of load management this season. |
| 1:57.0 | Fans have been mad about it. TV broadcasters have been mad about it. |
| 2:00.0 | And now, the NBA has put new rules in place to try and prevent it from happening. |
| 2:05.0 | Today, John Krasinski of the Athletic explains what exactly those new rules are, and why they've been put in place now. |
| 2:12.0 | There is no coincidence that this is happening just as the league is in the middle of negotiating a new television contract, and they're trying to do everything they can to have some sort of leverage in these negotiations. |
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