Mavericks hit with $750K fine for resting players in key game

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The Dallas Mavericks have been fined $750,000 by the NBA for "conduct detrimental to the league" after an investigation into the franchise's decision to sit several key players for the April 7 loss that eliminated the team from play-in contention.

The NBA commenced an investigation the day after the Mavs rested All-Star guard Kyrie Irving, shooting guard Tim Hardaway Jr., small forward Josh Green, power forward/center Christian Wood and power forward/center Maxi Kleber for the 115-112 loss to the Chicago Bulls. All-Star guard Luka Doncic played the first 12 minutes, 35 seconds before leaving the game.
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NBA fines Mavs $750K for having 'failed our fans'

The Mavericks have been fined $750K after an investigation into why the team rested key players as Dallas was eliminated from play-in contention.
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IMO, the NBA has two choices, start making every game count for every team all the time or just allow teams to play the system.

The lottery was created to stop the really bad teams from tanking at the end of the season. Maybe allowing the really bad teams to tank at the end of the season is not such a bad thing. Also, conditional draft picks should never be allowed for trading purposes. Every little rule the NBA tries to create makes a bigger loophole to be exploited.
 
Here's my solution:

Every active roster player under contract bets half their game check. The winning team splits the proceeds based on the minutes played.

I know it will never happen but it could be fun to watch.
 
Yappi said:
IMO, the NBA has two choices, start making every game count for every team all the time or just allow teams to play the system.

The lottery was created to stop the really bad teams from tanking at the end of the season. Maybe allowing the really bad teams to tank at the end of the season is not such a bad thing. Also, conditional draft picks should never be allowed for trading purposes. Every little rule the NBA tries to create makes a bigger loophole to be exploited.
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Tell that to the working class family who finally has a Wednesday night free and can score cheap tickets to take their 2 kids to see Luka…just for Luka to sit out due to load management.
 
Considering I've been to one Cavs game in the last 20 years and LeBron sat out the game, I understand.

I just don't think the NBA's solution is working.
 
To me I would reduce the season to 65 games or so … give more time in between games … would get a better product all around … but that will never happen because of $$$$$$ lost … but one can dream!
 
To avoid the fine, couldn't they have just played these key players, and have them tank the game without it looking noticable? If that was their intent anyway
 
The NBA just flips off their fans at every chance they get. Somewhere about 15 years ago, Gregg Popovich of the San Antonio Spurs sat an aging Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginolbili at different times during the regular season and it worked. They were still able to win enough games to have a good playoff seed, and they won 5 titles, got to 9 conf finals in about a 15 year span. From that time, it's became more and more popular for teams to do it. I mean when the ultimate goal is to win a title, not win a division, be #1 seed, then you de-emphasize the regular season.

The league stood by and did nothing.

I've got a pretty simple solution. The #1, #2 seeds from each conference plays all home games in the playoffs. #3, #4 seeds play 3 games at home. #5, #6 seeds play 1 home game. After that, the higher seeded team 5 home games, the lower seeded team 2 home games. In the conference finals and finals, you go back to the 4/3 format.

A. Owners love home games because they get more money from them. You don't think teams would be incentived to be the #1/ #2 seeds?
B. You want to load mangage and sit players, ok, you get a #5 or lower seed get no home playoff games.
 
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