I edited my post! Total brain fart lol

Got my Art and Artery mixed up somehow 😝

Arte Moreno owns the Angels. Troud would be an awesome Strong Safety, and Ohtani a great receiver, though...
Edit: changed SS to Strong Safety.

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The league officials are a joke, and a good portion of the refs as well with their incredibly inconsistent calls…

Dude I was at that game with my buddy who drove four hours to see Steph. He was so bummed and I felt so bad for him.

This is why Bill is the greatest.

He also picked a pro bowl player off arty morenos team who didnt deserve it one year nust so artie had to pay the extra couple million or whatever for going to the pro bowl.

Bill. Dont. Play.

Edit: omg I’m really embarrassed. Total brain fart. I mean Art Modell! Not Moreno. Thank you for pointing out this lol

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I kind of like this brand of petty shit

Pros in every contact sport play through a ton of pain and discomfort every season.

I would agree with this if it was something like a nagging injury that playing through would do damage to. I’m not asking them to play injured. And if that is the case, like I said in my last paragraph, announce it publicly much earlier than an hour before the game. Teams in every sport are secretive with injury reports because it makes it harder for the opponent to game plan and that’s bad for the fans.

And it was Steph and Draymond both sitting out for rest (now that I think about it klay was still recovering from the injury so he gets a pass). Did they sleep in the same bed and both sleep funny? I highly doubt a teams best players both had secret underlying conditions and playing against the pistons would’ve been the breaking point that caused their careers to flame out.

Like I said, no one needs to play injured. If they run some kind of test and determine it wouldn’t be safe for a guy to play, announce it before fans are literally in their car on the way to the game. Or reimburse fans a portion of the money they spent on tickets but you know they won’t do that.

Not that I’m opposed to what you’re saying, but there’s probably a financial reason for resting players for road games over home games.

If you rest players during home games, people will catch on eventually that it’s not guaranteed that your home team’s players will be on the court all the time, and your team’s ownership loses ticket/concession sales. If you rest players during road games, the other team bears the brunt of any such losses.

And ideally, the other team’s home market is mostly there to see their home team’s players anyway, unless they suck that bad.

I’m a metro Detroiter. I’m aware of my teams ills

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Outrageous the league penalizes resting players. The problem isn't the resting. It's that the season is so long teams can afford to lose games resting players. If the commissioner cared about player safety AND fan enjoyment he'd shorten it and make the games matter. Of course that goes against squeezing every last drop out of the golden goose so that ain't happening.

What bothers me is that home teams will charge more for games against teams with big stars. If that star doesn't play because the coach wants to rest him you don't get a refund for the extra amount they charged you.

Assuming these are all valid albeit minor injuries and a snapshot of a typical ‘day’, these guys play through a lot of discomfort throughout the season.

I don’t understand the people complaining about the players taking a break lol. They need those breaks or they will get hurt. It’s scientifically proven if you exert yourself at a high intensity while fatigued your risk for injury doubles or triples.

Ya rest players against chump teams where you don't need them to win. Detroit has sucked for a while. Yes it sucks for fans but the players / coaches are competitors, they go out there to win.

Fans just need to stop going to games if players are going to be “injured” half the time. It’s all about money, and as long as the gravy train is rolling, no need to worry

Sorry but this seems incredibly short sighted to me. Would you rather enjoy Steph Curry once in Detroit to potentially risk losing out on the longevity of his career? It would be more tragic to watch him fizzle out because he tried to play every single game.

How fatigue is measured in professional sports these days is quite intense. You show up the day of a game and get assessed. Maybe you didn’t get enough sleep, maybe you slept in a funny position, maybe you accidentally pushed your self too hard in a work out. If you don’t score well on the assessment there’s no way the team is going to risk playing you.

I’d rather see these players break records than get burnt out early for the sake of mid season game.

Ugh.

Rest players at home. They get seen there all the time. Shouldn’t rest superstars on the road, especially a place you only go once a year. You’re resting on the luxury team plane. Just play.

Literally

The nba is as popular as it is because since the early 80s they’ve marketed star players over teams. David stern openly said that. And because of that, there’s TONS of people out there who will tell you “I’m not a lakers fan, I’m a lebron fan”, and it’s always been like that.

Baseball has always done the complete opposite of that and not marketed their stars well at all and just rely on teams to capture their local fan base, so it makes sense to hold them to a different standard.

Plus hurting your oblique and missing a month straight is completely different than a star basketball player taking a rest day. No one gets mad at basketball players when they sprain their ankle and miss multiple weeks because that’s an actual injury that you can’t or at least shouldn’t play through. It just pisses people off to see “rest” on the injury report. It’s just like how if you called into work because you had covid they’d understand and tell you get well soon but if you call in and just say “I’m in the mood for a rest day” they’d look at you crazy.