The NBA commissioner addressed the league’s policy for minimum games played to qualify for regular season awards and all-NBA teams.
The NBA commissioner addressed the league’s policy for minimum games played to qualify for regular season awards and all-NBA teams. The NBA commissioner addressed the league’s policy for minimum games played to qualify for regular season awards and all-NBA teams.
I wanna take you back to the, end of the regular season and the regular season awards and the player participation policy.
Would you support any reform to the link between the player participation policy and regular season awards, such as either reducing the number of games needed, discount, dis- connecting all NBA from the player participation policy, or also just on a separate issue, releasing the regular season award winners at the end of the regular season so that fans can make maybe more of a connection between regular season performance and why voters are voting the way they are for the awards? your, your last point's an interesting one, in terms of the timing of the release, and that's something we should look at.
Remember we, one point we had an awards show and waited probably too long to announce, and now we time them throughout the playoffs. In terms of supporting a change, I'm frankly not ready to support a change. I just take a step back to the situation we were dealing with when we went into the last collective bargaining negotiation and put in place the 65 game rule.
In the s- the few prior seasons before we put in place that, of that, that rule, roughly one-third of our all NBA players did not participate in a-- 65 games, at roughly 85 or 80% of the season. And so we came together with the Players Association and really on behalf of the fans, what this is ultimately about, said,"We've gotta find a way to incentivize our stars to be on the floor, and we've gotta find a way to incentivize our teams to have our stars on the floor.
"Now, we made, you know, we built into the rule the opportunity if, for, to make exceptions in extraordinary circumstances if a player is in-- by a game or two, and obviously we had two except-ceptions this year. Of course, when we sit down to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement with the players, w-we're, we're happy to talk about it.
But I think what get left out, I mean, any-anywhere we draw the line, there's always gonna be peop-players on the other side of that line. But even, you know, it, i-i-when getting to the rules we just m- changed around tanking, I, I think what you're seeing in not just the NBA but in modern sports that analytics are predominant in that teams are following clear incentives, players are following clear incentives.
And I think just in the same way we change rules to incentivize teams to be focused on winning in the regular season, we change rules to incentivize players to participate in the regular season, and I think they've largely workedThe NBA commissioner addressed the league’s policy for minimum games played to qualify for regular season awards and all-NBA teams.
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