The NBA board of governors on Wednesday voted to approve tougher resting policy rules and punishments for star players who sit out games -- including those on national TV and in-season tournaments -- as well as multiple All-Stars sitting out together for regular-season games, a source told ESPN.
- Teams must manage their roster to ensure that no more than one star player is unavailable for the same game.
- Teams must ensure that star players are available for national television and in-season tournament games.
- Teams must maintain a balance between the number of one-game absences for a star player in home games and road games -- with a preference for those absences to happen in home games.
- Teams must refrain from any long-term shutdown -- or near shutdown -- when a star player stops participating in games or plays in a materially reduced role in circumstances affecting the integrity of the game.
- Teams must ensure that healthy players resting for a game are present and visible to fans.
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