Dude, we agree on that. I thought I offered that as a reasonable ground for Pops to protest earlier in this thread. I'm a huge advocate of less game...always have been for a loooong time. I want more practice time to improve the game. We agree.
Obtuse way of thinking about it bro. Would this game have the same hype to it if it were a game between the Kings and the Wizards?
How many rockets games do you go to? The only one most people go to are the heat and Lakers and they are there to see lebron and kobe.
It's rhetorical. Obviously it wouldn't, and there is something extrinsic going on here. It's not the franchises people pay to see, it's the players.
There is a precedent for a fine: http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/25/s...resting-two-players-brings-lakers-a-fine.html I still would like to understand why this is being arbitrarily enforced. Maybe Riley complained to the league: "Hey, you remember when you fined me way back when? Well, now what are you going to do?"
It is a rational way of thinking. Their tickets say Spurs @ Heat and then it lists a time/ seats. The ticket says nothing about who will play....it simply says those 2 teams will be playing. It is really on the buyer for making that assumption. But...I can understand Stern doing damage control.
Yeah, that's not how entertainment works at all though. It's not about some secondary school-level, pseudo-legal interpretation of what is implicitly promised. That's an internet argument, not a real one. People go to see players play, not the franchises themselves.
if you care to know, read my explanations already posted. if you care to know, read my explanations already posted.
If you say so.....bottom line, you can only expect to receive what you pay for. You bought a ticket that entitled you to see two teams play....it said nothing about the rotations. You can get mad....you can whine, you can b*tch but that is what you bought.
This is what I'm getting at. An organization supported by the people it entertains gains nothing by spurning those people. You can be callous and dismissive about it all you want on the net, since you're not part of that affected group, but there are serious $$$ concerns at work here way more complicated and nuanced than "Haha, you bought a ticket sucker." That's just silly thinking.
Your explanations are "we don't know but Stern can do whatever he wants" and "I don't like this". So basically, you know nothing.
Really? I wasn't aware the San Antonio Spurs are not playing the Miami Heat right now. In fact, I'm pretty sure they're leading at the start of the fourth. Weird. The NBA/TNT did not book Tim Duncan and Tony Parker on TNT. They booked the San Antonio Spurs, and that's what they received.
i wonder if the officiating crew had to completely re-work their gameplan in a case like this....they must have had a schedule of superstar calls already allocated on their pre-game chalkboard for those missing sperms players
