Fair or foul: Kings resting all their starters in a game with playoff implications

[konex]

Yeah Utah could have taken care of business earlier but that was kind of BS

[Vancouver-Grizz]

but so did SA when they took on Dallas. Always about themselves first. Sac was resting most of their players way before yesterdays game so it wasn't just against Houston.

[bigkingsfan]

They could trot their starters out their and half ass it like they have been doing months ago.

[bdreason]

The Kings should be fined for not having a legitimate reason to 'rest' their starters.

In fact, I think the league should fine the team, the coach, and the players. Maybe then the players won't be so eager to take nights off when they're getting paid MILLIONS of dollars to play a game.

[bigkingsfan]

The Kings should be fined for not having a legitimate reason to 'rest' their starters.

In fact, I think the league should fine the team, the coach, and the players. Maybe then the players won't be so eager to take nights off when they're getting paid MILLIONS of dollars to play a game.

The Spurs routinely rest their starters throughout the year VS opponents that have playoff implications.

[CP3PO]

They helped the Jazz. They get a better pick rather than get swept in the playoffs. Now Rockets get swept instead.

[GrapeApe]

They helped the Jazz. They get a better pick rather than get swept in the playoffs. Now Rockets get swept instead.

This. Being in the lottery is generally better than being an 8 seed. I'd imagine that there's plenty of Rockets fans that would have preferred not making the playoffs.

[tmacattack33]

The Spurs are a playoff team themselves and they rest starters all the time.


Do whatever you want.


The fault is with this ridiculously long 82 game season for basketball...a sport with less variance than football. Yet, football is confident enough that their 16 game regular season can separate the strong from the weak. And the NBA thinks it needs 82 (baseball and hockey are high variance sports and so a long regular season makes sense in those sports)

[bdreason]

The Spurs routinely rest their starters throughout the year VS opponents that have playoff implications.

The Spurs are a playoff team, which gives them a legitimate reason to rest their players... for the playoffs. What's the Kings excuse?


Fans spend hundreds and even thousands of dollars to attend NBA games, and without the fans, NBA players wouldn't be getting paid MILLIONS to play a game. NBA players should not be sitting out games for no legitimate reason.

[bigkingsfan]

The Spurs are a playoff team, which gives them a legitimate reason to rest their players... for the playoffs. What's the Kings excuse?


Fans spend hundreds and even thousands of dollars to attend NBA games, and without the fans, NBA players wouldn't be getting paid MILLIONS to play a game. NBA players should not be sitting out games for no legitimate reason.

There's no legitimate excuses for sitting starters months before the playoffs even starts, this includes young players like Leonard. No one else in the league history does this.

[Bosnian Sajo]

Regardless, the Jazz would of still missed the playoffs thanks to Kobe bean. It's the least we could do after we kicked out the Artest/Yao Rockets back in 2009

What a playoffs that was...Kobe, Fish, and company. Can't believe it's over.

[You Cant Ban Me]

The Kings should be fined for not having a legitimate reason to 'rest' their starters.

In fact, I think the league should fine the team, the coach, and the players. Maybe then the players won't be so eager to take nights off when they're getting paid MILLIONS of dollars to play a game.

aww look at the wittle baby he has to work 8 whole hours a day while the rich professional athletes get to take games off o boo hoo for the wittle baby.Life's not fair!!!!

well guess what life sucks AND THEN YOU DIE!!!!!

[stalkerforlife]

Foul and racist.

A lot of players around the league hate the Jazz because they usually have a lot of white players and their best player is white.

They wanted Houston to get in over the Jazz.

[bdreason]

There's no legitimate excuses for sitting starters months before the playoffs even starts, this includes young players like Leonard. No one else in the league history does this.

Resting your starters when you know you're a playoff team is a legitimate basketball related strategy. I don't like it, but at least there's a reason that's related to winning basketball games... for the fans.


Benching your starters because they just don't feel like playing anymore, or because you're trying to lose games in order to improve your draft position, is not a legitimate, basketball related strategy.


What the NBA should do is change the lottery selection so that it's based on the teams final 10 games of the season. The lottery team with the best record in the final 10 games of the season gets the most ping-pong balls. That would create an incentive for bad teams to try and improve throughout the season, and would stop teams from throwing games (or benching starters) at the end of the season.

[bigkingsfan]

Resting your starters when you know you're a playoff team is a legitimate basketball related strategy. I don't like it, but at least there's a reason that's related to winning basketball games... for the fans.


Benching your starters because they just don't feel like playing anymore, or because you're trying to lose games in order to improve your draft position, is not a legitimate, basketball related strategy.

What the NBA should do is change the lottery selection so that it's based on the teams final 10 games of the season. The lottery team with the best record in the final 10 games of the season gets the most ping-pong balls. That would create an incentive for bad teams to try and improve throughout the season, and would stop teams from throwing games (or benching starters) at the end of the season.

Tanking has always been around, not that much difference tanking the entire season or a few games in the end. The Kings are trying to avoid sending their top 10 protected pick to Chicago. Did you cry foul when the Spurs tank for Tim Duncan and all their stars missed huge chunks of games that year?

Your lottery idea just favors the team with the easiest schedule, 10 games is too small of a sample for something like that.