Emirates NBA Cup 2024 (formerly in-season tournament)

Fred Katz: The NBA has fined the Hawks $100K for violating the league’s player participation policy. Hawks sat Trae Young for an NBA Cup game against the Celtics. League says an independent physician deemed he could have played.
Source: Bluesky

 

NBA is a joke lol. Players. League.

 

This is an inevitable ticking time bomb. You can't question a player's ability to take the court like this without eventually getting egg on your face. As a fan I'm sick of all the sit outs, but this is gonna blow back hard when they least expect it.

 

I don't see why they can't just sharply reduce a player's minutes for a couple of games. Give Trae most of a night off when he misses the first couple of shots. Internally, you have a wink and a nod, maybe even have him limp a little on the way to the bench. Externally, people don't notice as much as a big DNP.

 

Players would never go for that because it would kill their per game stats.

I mean, 95% of guys don't release end of quarter 3/4 court shots before the buzzer because they don't want their FG% affected.

 

I would really like us to win this thing

Rocket River

 

rocket will have to exorcise a lot of demons round one against GSW.

 

With our luck we get Reggie Miller, the ultimate **** sucker.

 

So we beat golden state we play the winner of okc vs dal but if we lose we play the loser?