The issue of teams resting star players has been plaguing the league for years. It has recently appeared in the national headlines once again after two primetime games saw the Spurs, Warriors, and Cavaliers rest their best players.
Clearly, this isn’t an easy problem to solve. The league has sent a memo to teams informing them that punishments may be handed down for such acts. But it’s difficult to expect much from those organizations when huge matchups are televised on back-to-backs or difficult stretches of a long season.
Despite these paradoxical issues, there is one person still optimistic that a solution will be found. San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich recently spoke to reporters about that issue and how the league will fix it, via Jon Krawcynski of the Associated Press:
“We’ll all try to figure it out. We want to do the best job we can because it is entertainment. We love the basketball and that’s what we do. We’re all purists in that sense. But we know how the salaries are paid. We’ll get together a lot better than the Republicans and Democrats. And we even say things that aren’t nonsensical and delusional.”
Pop’s always good for interjecting some political humor in these things.
But in all seriousness, it’s good to hear a very influential voice in the NBA sound confident that a resolution will be found to one of the main problems surrounding the NBA right now.
