Spurs fined 250k for sending home players from yesterdays game

[Born2BKing]

so where was the outrage when the Spurs sent the big 3 home last year?

It should have been brought up last year too then. And it's pretty fukked up how some analysts are saying how unfair the league was to the Spurs for the schedule they had to face. Ohh boo hoo, these super rich millionaires are asked to play a few more road games in a month, oh the outrage. I hear no talk about the middle class family who saved up all year to take their son to see his favorite player Tim Duncan, or the single mother who took money from her Christmas budget to take her kids to see Tony Parker, or the Spurs fans in Miami who work hard everyday to be able to afford to come to the arena once a year to see their squad. shyt is fukked up.

 

[jwinfield]

so where was the outrage when the Spurs sent the big 3 home last year?

You mean during the lockout shortened season where teams were playing 5 in 6?

 

[malbaker86]

You mean during the lockout shortened season where teams were playing 5 in 6?

And there's a difference now?

I'm in Jax and i'ma Spurs fan. I'd have to travel to Orlando which is a touch over 2 hours to see em play. If I made that trip and the big 3 weren't there, I wouldn't feel slighted cause i'm a SPURS fan. My "NBA" experience wouldn't be ruined

They don't owe ME anything. That's my point when it's all said and done. Sure i'd like to see Duncan (the reason why i'm a Spurs fan), but i'm not going to feel as though i'm owed an apology.

 

[jwinfield]

And there's a difference now?

Yes.

Millsap insulted Spurs' 'Big 3' did not play

San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich knows the long-term benefits of resting players far exceed any short-term benefits. And that was evident last night in the Spurs' loss to the Utah Jazz.

Though the team fought tooth-and-nail until the waning moments of the fourth quarter, the Spurs couldn't extend their winning streak to 12. This was mainly because Pop chose to rest the Spurs' trio of Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili. Without the "Big 3," it was almost a sure thing the Spurs would lose to the Jazz.

There's a difference between sitting out your 4 best players in November and sitting them out near the end of a lockout shortened season.

 

[malbaker86]

Yes.

Millsap insulted Spurs' 'Big 3' did not play



There's a difference between sitting out your 4 best players in November and sitting them out near the end of a lockout shortened season.

Popovich maintained that “my priority is my basketball team and what’s best for it.” Playing a fourth game in five nights, he did what he has done before: sent home his three veteran stars — Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker — and added Danny Green, a starting guard, for good measure.

From one championship coach to another: I’ve got your back.

Hours after NBA commissioner David Stern fined the Spurs $250,000 after coach Gregg Popovich rested four of his players during a Thursday game against the Heat, Celtics coach Doc Rivers came out strongly in favor of his colleague.

“You’ve got to coach your team to win in the long run and you have to do whatever you need to do,” Rivers said before a Friday game against the Blazers, according to the Associated Press. “If that’s sitting players, you sit players.”

Rivers also took a dig at Stern, who threatened “significant sanctions” in a statement released before the Spurs and Heat tipped off on Thursday.

“I think it was an action and a reaction personally, and I think the reaction was probably overdone [Thursday], and then all of a sudden you have to have an action,” Rivers said, according to WEEI.com.

 

[jwinfield]

Stern's favorite owner weighs in.

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban OK with San Antonio Spurs fine -- Should have been higher - ESPN Dallas

"Look, I respect the Spurs," said Cuban before the Mavericks beat the Pistons 92-77 on Saturday night. "Pop is the best coach in the league. I understand why he did it. I might even take the fine if it was us, but I understand why the league (fined the Spurs). It maybe should have even been higher, because the amount at stake is enormous."

Cuban called the national television contracts "the money train" for the NBA, pointing out that those contracts are the difference in the league being profitable or not "by a long shot."

"We're still a business," said Cuban, whose fine totals from his 13-year ownership tenure are well into seven figures. "Resting the stars for the long haul one game earlier, one game later, sure. Resting when you've got our biggest customer at stake, that's a whole different animal.

"I'm not saying the Mavs wouldn't have done the same thing, but I realize that it'd be a fineable offense. And if it was me, it'd probably be 10 times as much."

 

[Brozay]

I think Stern made a rash decision when he said there would be 'sanctions'. He then had no choice but to back it up or run the risk of not backing up his word. He knows this was a poor decision... he just acted too quickly.

“I think it was an action and a reaction personally, and I think the reaction was probably overdone [Thursday], and then all of a sudden you have to have an action,” Rivers said, according to WEEI.com.

Doc Rivers cosign...

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Squad rotation ftw.

 

[Ronnie Lott]

And there's a difference now?

I'm in Jax and i'ma Spurs fan. I'd have to travel to Orlando which is a touch over 2 hours to see em play. If I made that trip and the big 3 weren't there, I wouldn't feel slighted cause i'm a SPURS fan. My "NBA" experience wouldn't be ruined

They don't owe ME anything. That's my point when it's all said and done. Sure i'd like to see Duncan (the reason why i'm a Spurs fan), but i'm not going to feel as though i'm owed an apology.

Question. Let's just say that u purchace tickets to see Jay-Z in concert. You purchase ticked 2 months in advance. U pay 200 bucks for good seats for u and your chick. U get a hotel etc. U get to the concert and Jay-Z doesn't show, but Memphis Bleek performs. Are u gonna sit here and say that u wouldn't be pissed? You wouldn't want your money back? And would u not feel that Jay-z owed u somethin? Or would u be ok with Jay-z releasin a statment sayin. "Hey fans, I just did 4 cities in 5 days, I'm tired, fukk all the fans in (your city) too bad would u be totally ok with Memphis bleek performin or would u want your money back?

 

[Da King]

Question. Let's just say that u purchace tickets to see Jay-Z in concert. You purchase ticked 2 months in advance. U pay 200 bucks for good seats for u and your chick. U get a hotel etc. U get to the concert and Jay-Z doesn't show, but Memphis Bleek performs. Are u gonna sit here and say that u wouldn't be pissed? You wouldn't want your money back? And would u not feel that Jay-z owed u somethin? Or would u be ok with Jay-z releasin a statment sayin. "Hey fans, I just did 4 cities in 5 days, I'm tired, fukk all the fans in (your city) too bad would u be totally ok with Memphis bleek performin or would u want your money back?

You saying jay z missing a jay z concert is the same thing Duncan missing a spurs game?

:dafuk:


We not called the SA Duncan's you stupid muthafukka

 

[Panther]

Cant believe nikkas are saying this is ok. Stern is full of bullshyt, if pop wanna rest players let that nikka rest players. And to people saying if so and so did it would it be ok, lets be reality, we dont see this happen too often earlier in the regular season until teams are resting for the playoffs. I dont see the issue here

 

[malbaker86]

You saying jay z missing a jay z concert is the same thing Duncan missing a spurs game?

:dafuk:


We not called the SA Duncan's you stupid muthafukka

Exactly. Bruh used a TERRIBLE analogy

 

[HiphopRelated]

Cant believe nikkas are saying this is ok. Stern is full of bullshyt, if pop wanna rest players let that nikka rest players. And to people saying if so and so did it would it be ok, lets be reality, we dont see this happen too often earlier in the regular season until teams are resting for the playoffs. I dont see the issue here

which is why he got fined AND he chose to do it for the TNT game

 

[Amare's Right Hook]

Pop = Master troll

 

[malbaker86]

which is why he got fined AND he chose to do it for the TNT game

So Pop wasn't trying to rest his core players?

Kinda worked out that Duncan and Parker had their best games of the season last night.

''What I do from my perspective is from a coaching perspective,'' Popovich said. ''And I think the league operates from a business perspective. And I think that's reflective in the action that they took.''