Warriors bullshitting about injuries

[lakerboy]

Resting for the playoffs. Don't tell me these guys are all injured and can't play at all. If this were the playoffs they would be all playing

[ikid2groove415]

Faking the injuries so Adam silver doesn’t get on there ass

[t-wizzle]

Yea it’s pretty ridiculous. They’ve been doing it all year. Lakers did the same shit back during their run with everyone except Kobe because he’s a competitive SOB.

[lakerboy]

Silver is a pussy. I would fine them millions

[shadymcgrady]

Where was this uproar when pop was doing this with Duncan and company?

[MMANick]

Definitely faking injuries.

[lakerboy]

Where was this uproar when pop was doing this with Duncan and company?

I was on them as well

[shadymcgrady]

I was on them as well

Oh, carry on then

[Philmill]

Kerr knows how to play the game....

[shadymcgrady]

For all the dub nation haters out there, have hope. I think silver will have the zebras giving Houston a helping hand in the western conf finals. Could easily be the difference in outcome

[SportsMushroom]

82 games within a span of 6 months, and for playoff teams anywhere from 86-110 games in such a short timespan. its a lot of beating and grind for the body to take

nba players end up suffering the rest of their lives as a result, when they retire they are still young men, in broken down bodies

the only reason games are so many is because owners/league are greedy cnuts that want to make even more money, off the backs of talented individuals since they themselves have no talents

it's only fair that players try to get some rest any way they can

teams should become community/player owned, so that decisions can be taken with fairness and the players health in mind, instead of thinking only about profits, to the detriment of the people that actually do the work to put fans on the seats and sales in the stores

[MRivera42]

good point lakerboy they are faking it!

[VeggieDog]

Just taking a page from Pop's playbook.

[ikid2groove415]

82 games within a span of 6 months, and for playoff teams anywhere from 86-110 games in such a short timespan. its a lot of beating and grind for the body to take

nba players end up suffering the rest of their lives as a result, when they retire they are still young men, in broken down bodies

the only reason games are so many is because owners/league are greedy cnuts that want to make even more money, off the backs of talented individuals since they themselves have no talents

it's only fair that players try to get some rest any way they can

teams should become community/player owned, so that decisions can be taken with fairness and the players health in mind, instead of thinking only about profits, to the detriment of the people that actually do the work to put fans on the seats and sales in the stores

Guys getting paid millions- kids pay In advance to see star players play when there on the road - it’s not football - they are resting everyone curry/Durant/Thompson - you wouldn’t be piss if you paid big money to watch this guys play?

[VeggieDog]

Guys getting paid millions- kids pay In advance to see star players play when there on the road - it’s not football - they are resting everyone curry/Durant/Thompson - you wouldn’t be piss if you paid big money to watch this guys play?

I think you just solved the problem.

[ikid2groove415]

This don’t look like injuries

[SportsMushroom]

Guys getting paid millions- kids pay In advance to see star players play when there on the road - it’s not football - they are resting everyone curry/Durant/Thompson - you wouldn’t be piss if you paid big money to watch this guys play?

its not like the money comes out of the owners pockets, the players bring in that money because of their talents, its their money, what the owners/league makes is the players paying them, and they take advantage of it and force players to play an excruciating schedule because they want even more money for doing nothing and just taking advantage of someone elses talent

player absences are known in advance in most cases, and the ticket prices reflect that. you dont have to buy a ticket if the lineup is not up to your liking. if you buy a season ticket or a ticket way in advance you do so in the knowledge that you cant be guaranteed which line ups will be playing, you assume that risk, stop being a snowflake

teams only responsibility is to give as much notice of lineups as possible, last minute changes are probably legitimate injuries, easily attributed to a brutal schedule



if you are saying that entertainment of the crowd is more important than the health/long term competitiveness of the team, you are admitting this is not a sport, but an entertainment product, so its hypocritical if at the same time you complain about fixing/refs/drama etc

godamn snowflakes, complaining about everything

[ans61201]

82 games within a span of 6 months, and for playoff teams anywhere from 86-110 games in such a short timespan. its a lot of beating and grind for the body to take

nba players end up suffering the rest of their lives as a result, when they retire they are still young men, in broken down bodies

the only reason games are so many is because owners/league are greedy cnuts that want to make even more money, off the backs of talented individuals since they themselves have no talents

it's only fair that players try to get some rest any way they can

teams should become community/player owned, so that decisions can be taken with fairness and the players health in mind, instead of thinking only about profits, to the detriment of the people that actually do the work to put fans on the seats and sales in the stores

A lot of errors in this post. The players aren't going to give up 82 game seasons either. It's less money for them. They'd rather keep the season long and sit games/make more $

[ans61201]

its not like the money comes out of the owners pockets, the players bring in that money because of their talents, its their money, what the owners/league makes is the players paying them, and they take advantage of it and force players to play an excruciating schedule because they want even more money for doing nothing and just taking advantage of someone elses talent

player absences are known in advance in most cases, and the ticket prices reflect that. you dont have to buy a ticket if the lineup is not up to your liking. if you buy a season ticket or a ticket way in advance you do so in the knowledge that you cant be guaranteed which line ups will be playing, you assume that risk, stop being a snowflake

teams only responsibility is to give as much notice of lineups as possible, last minute changes are probably legitimate injuries, easily attributed to a brutal schedule



if you are saying that entertainment of the crowd is more important than the health/long term competitiveness of the team, you are admitting this is not a sport, but an entertainment product, so its hypocritical if at the same time you complain about fixing/refs/drama etc

godamn snowflakes, complaining about everything

Calling people snowflakes and in same sentence crying about the best athletes in the world having to play a game for millions of dollars each year because it's hard on them lol

News flash, owners of companies have workers do the work that brings in the income, but yet profit the most. This business model is only copied in uh about 99.9% of businesses lol

[ikid2groove415]

This clowns are very good at playing a game they love to play since kids - getting paid millions/first class hotels/ first class hookers/ first class food/ it’s not to hard to show up and play 40 minutes a night when some poor kids been waiting all year to see them play

[kingdom]

baseball players take days off all the time in a less aggressive sport with zero fanfare. some pitchers get 5 days between starts or take a rotation off. how many baseball players you see limping around? the number of games is unnecessary in both leagues and set by old standards. fans complain, but how bout they decrease games and raise ticket prices to equal profits? the complaints would still be endless.If a healthy guy plays 77/82 games, thats still a pretty good percentage.

[lakerboy]

The league even reduced back to back. 3 on 4 reduced. Season started earlier. What else do they need to do?

The worst part is that in the playoffs there is even more time off. Sometimes 3 days between games.

[JIBBBY]

Resting em up and getting them all healthy for a playoff run.. I can see the logic in that.. We'll see if that works though? Time off can break up team chemistry and have an adverse effect...

Popazit did do that with his aging players especially on back to back nights for years now..

[IBetYou]

Good! I don't want to see the Warriors win 70 games, it's boooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiii iiiinnnnnnnnnnggggg.

What the Bulls are doing is more incendiary. K.Dunn has suffered a setback with his "turf toe" injury and is now in a walking boot. No joke!

[SportsMushroom]

Calling people snowflakes and in same sentence crying about the best athletes in the world having to play a game for millions of dollars each year because it's hard on them lol

News flash, owners of companies have workers do the work that brings in the income, but yet profit the most. This business model is only copied in uh about 99.9% of businesses lol

hey, the complaining was not started by me, i am responding to someone elses complaint

so you are saying we cant use the word snowflake at all because the person saying the word is himself engaging in complaining?

yes its a model copied by 99.9% of business and its still taking advantage of someone elses talent and work and its not right either

if you dont agree with players resting to avoid fatigue/injury, you are a douche in my book, also not very bright, pushing the players and overplaying them will lead to fatigue, short and long term injuries, which means that the playoffs, and future seasons will feature less stars because of injury, and the players who do play will offer an inferior product because of fatigue, also will lead to shorter careers so the lebrons and kobes will be in the league for less years making the product worse

also, you and the op are here so i suppose you are gamblers, irregular lineups means that books models will be less effective, lines will be softer and us gamblers get a bigger edge. you'd think that as gamblers you guys would be celebrating. but you are complaining instead which obviously means that you are losing gamblers, not being able to recognize that this is in your favor

[The Giant]

The amazing thing is Lebron hasn't missed a game all year.

[shadymcgrady]

Players treat themselves as multimillion dollar businesses bc let's face it, they essentially are

Why risk long term injury over a game or 3 here and there and perhaps miss out on the next 100 million dollar deal?

[SportsMushroom]

Players treat themselves as multimillion dollar businesses bc let's face it, they essentially are

Why risk long term injury over a game or 3 here and there and perhaps miss out on the next 100 million dollar deal?

exactly

also, wear and tear can mean shorter career, and a shorter period at which you are at peak physical ability, which will mean less money and less titles in the long run, even if that horrible injury doesnt happen

[The Giant]

Players treat themselves as multimillion dollar businesses bc let's face it, they essentially are

Why risk long term injury over a game or 3 here and there and perhaps miss out on the next 100 million dollar deal?

What about the fans that scrounge up the money to see their favorite players perform? Do you not care about them, Shady? Do you not care about the children?

[IBetYou]

It's not the players that treat themselves that way, it's the franchises. The players are assets to the franchise.

[ikid2groove415]

Players treat themselves as multimillion dollar businesses bc let's face it, they essentially are

Why risk long term injury over a game or 3 here and there and perhaps miss out on the next 100 million dollar deal?

Tv networks pays the NBA billions - I’m sure espn is happy about tonight match up- spurs vs warriors bench

[ikid2groove415]

Warriors are arrogant and pointing the middle finger at Adam silver lol

[vividjohn45]

Wats the okay tonite?? G.state +8.5. ? pops doesn't play full intensity. Plays hard enough to win but doesn't care about ATS. ??

[lakerboy]

No concern what so ever. When you have to real injuries that's what happens

[IBetYou]

Wouldn't it be great if the Spurs slid to #7, got Leonard back, and ousted the Warriors in the 1st round? Or if the Thunder slipped to that spot, and Westbrook went against Durant on equal terms?