Spurs fined 250k for sending home players from yesterdays game

[Greenstrings]

U sound dumb as shyt
They would have went a wizards game the tickets cost a lot less
Nyggas expect to see the regular spurs squad
And a competitive game

You're not guaranteed to see any player on the court when you buy your ticket. Coaches don't make decisions based on how much fans pay for their tickets.

You're tryna tell me the game wasn't competitive? The Spurs led with a minute on the clock.

And this fools calling me dumb as shyt?

 

[humble Hermit]

 

[Diyhai]

105-100 AINT COMPETITIVE NOW?

Never said it wasn't

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

at comparing baseball pitchers sitting to an entire team sitting at home in a 15 game season with one away game against the heat on schedule.

You are missing the point. It is the coach/manager's discretion. They are old as shyt and have had two lengthy road trips. A season is 82 fukking games. Pop shouldn't be required to run his aging stars into the ground because the fukking commissioner of the league wants him to.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

This is just gonna light a fire under the Spurs to get a ring #5 this year. fukk David Stern.

 

[THE MACHINE]

There are no guarantees on the tickets you purchase. If CC Sabathia "doesn't feel right" after his warm up and Girardi decides right before game time to take precaution and sit him out... TOUGH shyt.

But in this instance he would be sending Jeter, Arod, Cano and CC home...and they wouldn't be around before or after the game to do press.

 

[tremonthustler1]

i think all four should had not got a paycheck for the game....like us,if you don't work u don't get paid

what about the players that always get DNP-CD'd?

 

[Loose]

You are missing the point. It is the coach/manager's discretion. They are old as shyt and have had two lengthy road trips. A season is 82 fukking games. Pop shouldn't be required to run his aging stars into the ground because the fukking commissioner of the league wants him to.

so you'd be ok with the yankees sending their entire roster home not just CC for no reason

 

[HHR]

This is just gonna light a fire under the Spurs to get a ring #5 this year. fukk David Stern.

Word, before this they didn't really care about winning a ring.

 

[Diyhai]

You're not guaranteed to see any player on the court when you buy your ticket. Coaches don't make decisions based on how much fans pay for their tickets.

You're tryna tell me the game wasn't competitive? The Spurs led with a minute on the clock.

And this fools calling me dumb as shyt?

Never said the game wasn't competitive read what I wrote
Unless a player is injured u expect them to play
Ticket prices r based on the quality of the team
U r paying for players
Imagine going to a Laker game and Kobe not playing just because
u gonna be mad as fukk

 

[phillycavsfan]

They're both wrong.

I don’t think this is a big deal if the Duncan and co. had shown up to the game in dress clothes, or play significantly less minutes. By sending them home Pop’s flipping Stern and the league the middle finger, and he knows it. The players do have obligations to the media and fans to show up if their health (and health of loved ones) allows it. It’s purely naive to think Pop was only doing this so he could rest his starters.

Pop dared Stern to satisfy his monstrous ego, and Stern obliged. He’s opened a Pandora Box concerning tanking, but he couldn’t care less.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

But in this instance he would be sending Jeter, Arod, Cano and CC home...

Who cares if they are on the bench, at the hotel or on a plane? They aren't taking part in what the live fans are seeing. You want to watch Duncan sit around and for Splitter in his fresh new suit

 

[Loose]

Pop had this decided in July he deserves to get fined

 

[theoretic]

Shoulda been a cool million.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

so you'd be ok with the yankees sending their entire roster home not just CC for no reason

It wasn't "no reason"... why are you missing this? They have had two lengthy road trips and the season is a grind. What's different about the Yankees sitting their entire roster and playing kids from the 40-man call-ups in a game against Toronto in September? It's the same shyt.

Stern is a tyrant.